ABOUT ME

Hello, I’m Sara Stubenbaum,

a freelance Artist & Designer from Germany.
I have graduated with an M.A. in Fashion Design majoring in womenswear & textiles and my mission is to carry art into fashion thus straight into our lives. And is there a better way for that than using its very core as a canvas?

Textiles!

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ABOUT ME

SKILLS

✥ textile design ✥ placed artwork ✥ seamless repeat pattern ✥ fashion design ✥ illustration
✥ concept creation ✥ technical drawing ✥ draping

✥ adobe creative suite ✥ collection development

✥ fine art ✥ traditional printmaking ✥ textile manipulation ✥ sewing and pattern making

✥ graphic and editorial design ✥ creative direction

My story

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

As a child I either spent my time drawing, painting, sculpting or watching my grandmother sew. Fashion was my art, I loved sitting alongside her, doing little embroideries on fabric scraps, or drawing the beautiful dresses from movies as well as making up my own designs, filling up dozens of sketchbooks.

At 14 I started making them, then still with the help of my grandmother, who unfortunately passed away a year after. The last time I could ask her what I should be sewing next she uttered,

smiling under the morphine-high:

"A dress with petticoat!“

So no sooner said than done, in

her honour I designed and made

my first entire collection inspired

by the 1950s featuring hand-painted textiles, which I showcased at the Graf-Zeppelin Haus in Friedrichshafen and organized a photoshoot with my aunt, an avid fashion aficionado,

who just launched her career

as an equine photographer.

From then the path was set for me:
I was going to be an Artist using the medium Fashion!

(It only dawned on me later that most people don't consider fashion as art.) Nonetheless I kept sticking to my vision

up to this day.

EDUCATION & WORK

After graduating from high school I completed internships in Costume Design and Tailoring in order to take up my fashion studies at University of Applied Sciences Trier, during which I continued working at the local theatre costume department and had the singular opportunity to work with VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO in her (near) Antwerp studio as a design intern for two seasons, where I was fortunate to spend most of the time drawing for textile designs and assisting the collection development with the team.

BTS Lookbook shooting with Ronald Stoops,

for VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO Pre Fall 2017

At the Paris Showroom,

VERONIQUE BRANQUINHO Fall 2017

I moved into my favourite place, my art studio and graduated with B.A. in 2018. I had the chance to shoot my final collection one last time with my aunt. Subsequently I proceeded with my Masters, majoring again in womenswear and textiles. At that time I got referred to my first freelance client in fashion and had been working since then mainly in textile design but also supporting all stages of product development, where my fondness for textiles grew even more and finally obtained

my M.A. (with distinction) in 2023.

LIVING MY DREAM

With over 5 years of industry experience under my belt, I'm now diving in full-time with the mission of bringing Art into Fashion through telling unique stories with textiles, for brands who would like to infuse their products with Art.

(taking off to create some magical things for you)

take me back to the top ☝︎

SARA STUBENBAUM