Joop biography
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Wolfgang Joop facts for kids
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| Born | () 18 November (age 80) Potsdam, Germany |
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| Spouse(s) | Karin Benatzky (m. ; div. )Edwin Lemberg (m. ) |
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Wolfgang Joop (born 18 November ) is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP! as well as the fashion brand Wunderkind.
Early life
Joop was born in Potsdam to editor and author Gerhard Joop [de] and his wife Charlotte. He grew up on his grandparents' farm in Bornstedt until , when his family moved to Braunschweig, where his father had been hired as chief-editor of cultural magazine Westermanns Monatshefte. During the GDR period, Ulla Ebert, the sister of Joop's mother, lived in the property and was financially suppor
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JOOP!
German luxury fashion house
Joop GmbH, branded JOOP! (pronounced [joːp] in German, roughly: yope; known in English as dʒuːp), is a German luxury fashion house specializing in contemporary clothing and cosmetics.
History
[edit]The company was founded as a designer label by German fashion designer Wolfgang Joop in Hamburg, Germany, in Joop, who had been selling designer clothing under his last name since , established a successful license business that eventually offered upscale womenswear, menswear, kid's clothing, accessories, and home articles.[2] To distinguish the brand from himself as an artist he added an exclamation mark to the name. A secondary denim and sportswear collection, Joop! Jeans was created in [3] The company is most notable for its vast fragrance range originally launched in In the mids, Joop! fragrances were introduced to the American market while its fashions were presented at New York Fashion Week and sold b
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Wolfgang Joop
Introduction
A mästare OF ALL STYLES
The multi-talented Wolfgang Joop had clear role models: the ice-cold beauty of Tamara de Lempicka’s paintings that reflect the s and their ideals of beauty and the expressive, slightly heinous drawings by Egon Schiele. Both artists followed their own paths against the current of gemenskap, not submitting themselves to the tastes of the times and therefore creating an individual visual world concentrated on peoples and their bodies. Based on these artists and the many other experiences in his eventful and always independent life as a designer, actor, and author, Wolfgang Joop has developed a type of mode drawing completely his own, in which “pose and personal demeanor become one.”
For him, art and fashion are most impressive when the objects have the spark of an old mästare, whom he studied extensively, and possess “an aura of unintentionalness; or the intention to be completely self-satisfied.” The French call this l’art pour