Creative Directors, Mentors of the Undergraduate in Fashion Design
Luke Meier
Born in Montréal and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Luke Meier brings a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by both business and craft. He completed undergraduate studies at Georgetown University in 1997, graduating with honours and a double major in finance and international business, and further pursued comparative business policy studies at Oxford University in 1996. He later shifted his focus to fashion, completing a menswear tailoring curriculum at Polimoda in Florence between 2001 and 2002, before earning a menswear degree from FIT in New York in 2002. He began his career at Supreme in New York, serving as design director from 2002 to 2009 and later as creative consultant for special projects from 2009 to 2014. In 2013, he founded OAMC, where he continues to serve as creative consultant. From 2017 until February 2025, he has been co-creative director of Jil Sander. In 2019 he was elected Leading Professor of the Fashion Department at the Angewandte University in Vienna with his wife Lucie, and in 2021 the duo co-curated A Magazine by Lucie and Luke Meier. With extensive expertise in fabrics, construction techniques, tailoring, and the development of garments, accessories, and footwear, he also possesses deep knowledge of contemporary culture—including music, art, film, and fashion—supported by more than two decades as an active skateboarder, snowboarder, skier, surfer, and DJ, enabling a refined ability to analyse and reinterpret cultural references across disciplines.
Lucie Meier
Born and raised in Zermatt, Switzerland, Lucie Meier grew up immersed in an alpine landscape that fostered both curiosity and discipline. A native German speaker fluent in English, French, and Italian, she pursued formal training in fashion marketing at Polimoda in Florence, graduating in 2003, before completing a degree in design and patternmaking at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 2007, where she also won the prestigious Trophée Saint Roch. She began her professional career at Louis Vuitton in Paris, working with Marc Jacobs from 2007 to 2012, followed by a role as head designer at Balenciaga between 2012 and 2014, collaborating first with Nicolas Ghesquière and later Alexander Wang. From 2014 to 2015, she served as head of summer collections for Christian Dior ready-to-wear and haute couture under Raf Simons, and subsequently became co-creative director of Christian Dior from 2015 to 2016. From 2017 until February of 2025, she has been co-creative director of Jil Sander. In 2019, together with Luke Meier, she was elected Leading Professor of the Fashion Department at the Angewandte University in Vienna, and in 2021 co-curated A Magazine by Lucie and Luke Meier. She was also awarded the Swiss Grand Award for Design in 2024. Known for an extensive knowledge of contemporary fashion and fashion history—including fabrics, construction techniques, tailoring, and garment components—she is also a passionate traveler and outdoors enthusiast with deep interests in the culinary, fine art, and architecture worlds.
