>Laitinen

Fashion Designer

Laitinen is a creative partnership between Finnish brother and sister Tuomas and Anna Laitinen. After graduating from the MA Fashion Design Course at Central Saint Martins in 2004, Tuomas worked as a freelance designer and fashion editor. Anna worked in fine arts. They joined their efforts in 2006 to create their first fashion collection which won the special mention award at the same years Hyeres Festival. The award was strongly supported by the festival’s guest judge Ann Demeulemeester. This enabled the duo to to collaborate with Italian mill Puntoseta and launch their label Laitinen for A/W 2007. The Laitinens' dark aesthetics combine northern melancholy with exact cuts, luxurious materials and subtle detailing.

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Selected Publications

Davies, Hywel; ‘100 New Fashion Designers’ Laurence King Publishers September 2008.