{"id":9702,"date":"2012-07-13T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2012-07-24T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:19:14","slug":"european-woolmark-prize-christian-wijnants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/07\/13\/european-woolmark-prize-christian-wijnants\/","title":{"rendered":"EUROPEAN WOOLMARK PRIZE:  Christian Wijnants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the great and the good in fashion gathered in London to crown the winner of the European Woolmark Prize \u2013 the award that launched Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent\u2019s careers. Wonderland catches up with winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianwijnants.com\">Christian Wijnants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2012\/07\/european-woolmark-prize-christian-wijnants\/international-woolmark-prize-european-award\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9703\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_5901-e1342174790503.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Christian Winjants, International Woolmark Prize European Award\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9703\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>First off, congratulations on the award! You beat out designers like JW Anderson for the prize. What does this mean for you to have people like Alber Elbaz and Alexandra Schulman give you the prize? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lot of press, it\u2019s money [the winner takes home $50,000], I can build up a bigger collection &#8211; all that is good, but on a personal level it\u2019s really important. It\u2019s not just the award, it\u2019s the fact that you\u2019re showing your work year after year and you&#8217;re confronted with critics all the time &#8211; it&#8217;s a very hard world. Like everyone else, I doubt myself. To have these amazing people telling you you\u2019re doing a good job is a big motivation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You work a lot with wool already in your own collection. What attracts you to wool?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so rich, you can do so many things with it. You can experiment with shapes, stitches, colours. Acrylic and nylon just don\u2019t give the same sensation in terms of natural elasticity &#8211; it\u2019s a very gratifying material. It\u2019s timeless. You can have a merino sweater for the next 15 years. I have sweaters that are 20 years old! <\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of woman do you design for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t design for one type of woman. I really like the idea that my clothes are ending up in Moscow and New Zealand, and a totally different woman will buy and make the clothes her own. As a designer, I don\u2019t think we are dictators in telling people what to do, we are proposing ideas and clothes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m working on my own collection for Spring\/Summer 2013 and now I\u2019ll start producing the sketches I presented here. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have any of your own beloved pieces of knitwear, then?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mother used to hand knit a lot of sweaters when we were children. She\u2019s from the countryside so she likes natural fibres \u2013 like me. The funny thing is, I still wear a sweater she knit for my father when I was small. It\u2019s a grey m\u00e9lange and the sleeves are totally destroyed, but I still love it! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2012\/07\/european-woolmark-prize-christian-wijnants\/international-woolmark-prize-european-award-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9705\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_6652-e1342175168325.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"International Woolmark Prize European Award\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2012\/07\/european-woolmark-prize-christian-wijnants\/international-woolmark-prize-european-award-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9704\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_6114a-e1342175192656.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"International Woolmark Prize European Award\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianwijnants.com\">christianwijnants.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words: Zing Tsjeng<br \/>\nImages: Jon Furniss<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the great and the good in fashion gathered in London to crown the winner of the European Woolmark Prize \u2013 the award that launched Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent\u2019s careers. 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