At the Offenbach University of Design, a new teaching area was created in the art department with a professorship for fashion. Fashion designer Heike Selmer was appointed to the position and will be offering courses for the first time in the 2023/24 winter semester, which is about to begin. In the future, the university says, the fashion department will offer “in addition to a focused fashion course, it will also offer modules for interdisciplinary studies in the art department”. Heike Selmar After training as a dressmaker in Frankfurt am Main, she studied fashion design in England from 1988 to 1993 at the “Epsom School of Art and Design” (now University for the Creative Arts, UCA and Southampton Solent University) and completed her studies in 1993 at the Royal College of Art completed a Master of Arts in London. Since 1993 she has worked as a designer for fashion labels in London, Paris, New York City and for the company Hess Natur. From 2003 to 2006, Selmer taught at the HfG Offenbach, where she supervised interdisciplinary projects in the areas of fashion and experimental product design with textile materials. In autumn 2006 she was appointed professor of fashion design at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin.
Together with Prof. Zane Berzina and Prof. Susanne Schwarz-Raacke, Selmer initiated the interdisciplinary project platform “greenlab” in Weißensee in 2010 as a “laboratory for sustainable design strategies”. The lab combines practice-led design research, academia and industry to promote innovative approaches to developing sustainable and ethical products, services and systems. In 2014, Selmer founded “local international,” an “international academic exchange program with a focus on sustainable design strategies and fair production methods in the fashion and textile industry.” The program aims to network fashion professionals from Germany and Bangladesh in order to “establish an awareness of sustainability and fair trade in the fashion industry and initiate international knowledge exchange, networking and participation with local crafts and industry”. In 2017, the fashion designer was part of the year-long project “Crossing Strands”, an intercultural collaboration between textile craftsmen and designers; In 2020 she founded “modeSénégal”, a digital academy by fashion creators for fashion creators in Senegal.
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