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Born in Montreal in 1975, Katrin Leblond graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1996 and soon thereafter moved to New York to take up an internship with a local fashion designer.
Upon completion of her internship, Katrin returned to Montreal in 2000 and spent the next year working as a textile designer for Tricots Liesse, a major North American knitting mill. This work experience allowed her to expand her technical skills and acquire proficiency in repeats, textures, stripes and colouring.
Spurred by her newfound love of high end knits, Katrin decided to gain grounding in fashion basics and enrolled at Lasalle College in Montreal to study sewing and patternmaking. At the same time, with the aim of broadening her artistic range, she studied jewellery design at l`Ecole de Joaillerie de Montréal, and, with a view to opening her own business, she took night courses in Small Business Management at Concordia University.
In 2002, Katrin began working for Télio & Cie. As a sales representative and merchandiser for the company’s fashion fabrics division, Katrin handled a wide range of beautiful and original fabrics and became acquainted with many of Quebec`s leading designers. This experience kindled her desire to move away from textiles and led to her decision to channel her artistic and technical skills into fashion design.
Beginning in 2003, Katrin worked as a freelance designer creating costumes for dancers and circus performers. For a private Cirque du Soleil party, she created a series of orchid dresses with huge flower petals and bird costumes with bustles and intricate feather appliqués. For a piece about Susan Sontag she cut apart vintage garments and re-sewed them into deconstructionist, feminist, monochromatic costumes for 5 dancers.
Having long dreamed of starting her own business, Katrin was finally able to achieve this ambition in January 2004, when she co-founded Fairyesque Inc., a fashion design company producing whimsical women’s wear. At Fairyesque, she co-designed four spring and three fall collections. This range of colourful, imaginative, contemporary clothing in easy care fabrics was presented at both Montreal and Toronto Fashion Week, the Salon des Métiers d`Art in Montreal, the One-of-a-Kind Show in Toronto, and was sold to 41 retailers across Canada and the United States. In October 2006, she sold her share of the company to launch her own designer label: Katrin Leblond Design.
Katrin Leblond`s clothes are recognizable for her artistic use of colour as well as the romantic but determinedly contemporary nature of her styles. A lover of beauty in all its manifestations, both natural and man made, Katrin vehemently challenges the “ugly art” movement with her determination to adorn and decorate, appliqué and embellish. Her openly passionate approach is rendered with a profound respect for the arts and crafts traditions. Ribbons are often made by hand cutting strips of fabric and hemming the edges one at a time. Sequins are hand sewn, and Svarovski crystals applied individually. Katrin illustrates her own silkscreen prints and has even been known to hand paint scenery directly onto a finished garment.
2007 will see the birth of a Katrin Leblond Design boutique featuring her limited edition women’s fashions, her new collection of pure cotton bedding in fabulous prints and her retro inspired art-furniture with imaginative upholstery. Fans of her colourful, light-hearted and youthful Fairyesque fashions will find much to please them in her new range of one-of-a-kind designs, and newcomers will delight in discovering a truly original creative spirit.
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