Anne Sofie is a fashion designer from Denmark with an incredible talent to combine the old with the new. Her remarkable designs have caught the eye of Open Lab and has earned her a spot in London's fashion week, a mere stepping stone on her journey to the top of the mountain. Although fashion was not her first love it seems as though they go quite well together. Blending the worlds of primitive and civilized, exotic and classic, barbaric and elegant is effortless for her.

Vincent Moulden: Did you always know that you wanted to do this?

Anne Sofie: No, I still haven’t made up my mind. For a long time I wanted to be a cartoonist.

VM: What is your educational background?

AS: First animation, then fashion, then production design and animation and then fashion again.

VM: What is the inspiration behind your designs?

AS: Animism

VM: What did you find to be the hardest thing when trying to combine the two worlds of Maori art and classic European clothing?

AS: It was not hard at all.

VM: What message do you want people to take from your designs?

AS: Ask me again in 20 years ;0)

VM: In terms of art, do you feel there is a difference between civilized and primitive?

AS: This is a very interesting question… Well, often primitive art has a practical and profane purpose and at the same time it contains some sort of magic power or mana. I like the thought that everything manmade encapsulates a soul.

VM: What do you want to be most remembered for?

AS: Kindness.

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