All her life, Julia Cranz has been drawing and designing. And fashion, style, design has always been her passion.
Her career was probably predetermined. There was the Vienna Hetzendorf fashion school where she initially studied fashion design and later tailor-made millinary as the „Fashion Designing and Tailoring†seemed to be too flat, too two-dimensional. She visited the „Academy of Fine Arts“ in Vienna. What followed was the Arts & Fashion School in San Francisco, an internship at a noble shoemaker in Venice, the opening of the studio in Eichgraben not far from Vienna, the New Yorker Fashion Week, the establishment of her label „Julia Cranz, Hats, Hat pieces & more“, a second studio in Venice … Julia’s vita is breathtakingly straight forward.
Julia Cranz is no longer an insider tip. Fashion victims from all over the world and of all shades want the fancy creations of Julia Cranz who herself describes them as „young, independent and stylish“. Whether opera diva Anna Netrebko or Mieze, the punky lead singer of the German formation Mia - they all stock up on her creations.
It all started with a legendary visit by the British fashion doyenne Isabella Blow to the Vienna studio of Julia Cranz. After an hours long Gin-Tonic drinking orgy and a heated debate about hats with the lady who, amongst others, discovered the probably most famous milliner in the world Philip Treacy, „I finally knew exactly where I wanted to go“, says Julia Cranz today.
Since then the couture label of the head artist, who would rather view herself as a classic milliner than a designer, has been called „Julia Cranz - Hats, Hat Pieces and more“. After all, she has learned the craft from scratch; she knows how to perfectly handle wooden shapes and cones and to this day produces each one of her creations very traditionally by hand.
And this is probably exactly what her clientele appreciates so much: The seamless combination of art and craftsmanship for each of her extravagant creations that nevertheless can always be worn and never look excessive or even ridiculous.
„This is what I like the most about creating hats“, says Julia Cranz. „Each customer is different and has its own wishes and ideas – and I have to accommodate everything. That way, there are no limits to my imagination.“
Julia Cranz
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