Claudia Hill

Claudia Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Berlin.^[3] Her work engages in performance art,^[4] costume ^{[5] [6]} and stage design,^[7] experimental film,^{[8] [9]} visual art ^[10] and sense-driven (somatic) form.^[11] Her practice has been presented internationally at venues such as Mumok,^[12] Centre Pompidou,^{[13] [14]} Paris Internationale,^[11] Les Rencontres Internationales,^[15] ZKM,^[5] BAM,^[16] HAU,^{[17] [18] [19]} Broadway,^[20] the Smithsonian ^[21] and New York Fashion Week.^{[22] [23]}

Born in Germany, Hill comes from a background of tailors of Czech origin on her mother's side.^[24] In 1993, she moved to New York to study contemporary dance.^{[6] [2]} Shortly after, she enrolled at FIT and Parsons.^{[1] [2]} At the same time, she began to work as a costume designer^[25] and was admitted to the United Scenic Artists in 1997. She returned to Europe in 2008 and now lives in Berlin,^[26] where she is an active member of the performing arts scene^{[27] [17] [18] [28] [29] [30]} and continues to work with textiles as a costume and stage designer.^{[31] [32] [33] [34] [35]}

In 1998, she founded two fashion labels, the eponymous Claudia Hill and The Number After 10,^[36] which were presented and sold in Japan, the US and Europe, at her own store,^[37] in high-end boutiques, such as Barneys New York or Fred Segal ^{[38] [39]} and later exclusively at private salons in limited editions.^{[26] [36]} Her New York Fashion Week shows were deemed unconventional and took the form of performances or installations,^[40] often in collaboration with other artists, such as Asymptote Architecture ^[22] or Skúli Sverrisson.

As her designs expanded beyond the boundaries of the fashion industry, she created the costumes for William Forsythe's Decreation in 2003^{[6] [41]} and for The Wooster Group's production of Hamlet in 2007.^{[42] [43]} She became a frequent collaborator of choreographer Meg Stuart, creating costumes for Sketches/Notebook^{[5] [44]} and Hunter,^[45] the two productions that won Stuart the choreographer of the year award from Tanz.

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• Claudia Hill at IMDb

• 1969 births
• Living people
• German women fashion designers
• German costume designers
• Fashion Institute of Technology alumni

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