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Isabell de Hillerin: Home Style

Isabell de Hillerin seeks to weave together the traditional and the contemporary. The Munich-born designer uses handmade folk fabrics from Romania and Moldova to create modern — and sometimes challenging — shapes for today’s women.

 The 28-year-old studied at Barcelona’s Felicidad Duce, and when it was time for her graduate collection, she remembered the beautiful hand-worked fabrics she saw at markets while visiting family in Romania as a child. “It was always everywhere,” she recalled. “But when I really wanted to use it, I couldn’t find it.”  For More

Photo by Matti Hillig

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