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The ongoing story

ABOUT

It is a passion for details, love of foreign cultures and partly forgotten, traditional handicrafts that unite the designs of Patricia Schmidt. Living between Munich and Mumbai, the designer creates delicate and imaginative sleepwear, dream masks and accessories that are sustainably produced and made with the intricate traditional techniques of artisans living in Indian cooperatives. With her 2018 label, Patricia Schmidt offers an ethical sleepwear line that radiates positive energy, because doing good for the world starts with a good night’s sleep.

 

Patricia Schmidt has been passionate about fashion since childhood. As a child, she travelled around the world with her parents, plunging into different colourful and dazzling cultures. During her schooldays, it was the vintage looks of the theatre productions that enchanted her with their ability to give life to old stories. No less fanciful was her graduation collection for the Fashion Design & Creation programme at the Berlin Esmod University, which was largely influenced by the functions of Skin and images of the visual art of African tribes. Mexican folklore, the modern world of Jonathan Adler, the saturated colours of Palm Springs… Patricia’s influences span far and wide. Even after career stops at renowned labels such as Tillmann Lauterbach, Dorothee Schumacher, JJSLEE and Chloé, there remained a very special wish to preserve, modernise and revive attention towards almost extinct craftsmanship cultivated over generations.

 

Nowhere was Patricia more inspired than in India. Today, through her label, Patricia supports and connects three local family manufactories. More than just realizing Patricia Schmidt's colourful and imaginative designs, these families embody her mission and philosophy: namely, to help make the world a more gentle, sustainable and beautiful place through transparently-made and ethically hand-crafted designs.