Jil Sander Definition presented by Apparel Search

She grew up near Hamburg, studying textile design in Krefeld . She worked as a fashion editor at the German woman's magazine Petra before opening her first boutique in 1969. In 1973, at the age of 24, she founded her eponymous fashion house. In 1999 Prada Group bought a 75% share in her company. Six months later, she left after confrontations with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli. The house, not surprisingly, faltered without the designer who defined it. In May 2003, after her noncompete clause expired , she returned to the Jil Sander label under Prada, only to leave it again in November 2004 when she couldn't agree with Bertelli's plan of giving-up the contributary work-shops in Germany in favour of the shops in Italy owned by Prada.