“It was always in the air that I was going to do my own brand, but I’ve always had too much work. This is my new canvas,” designer Christian Juul Nielsen revealed during a private preview of his first independent advanced contemporary line, Aknvas.
Over the years, the designer cut his teeth at Dior, Nina Ricci and Oscar de la Renta, paving the way for his more recent ventures as creative director of the rock-‘n’-roll, Seventies-inspired line Land of Distraction, and Hervé Léger. But last season Land of Distraction opted out of showing a new collection and is “sorting things out,” according to the designer. While his role there remains unclear, he took the opportunity of time (his ongoing contract with Hervé Léger being part-time) to start anew.
“Canvas in Danish is with a ‘k,’ and I love the word to begin with,” Nielsen explained. “A bright, new white base where we start again.” After researching social media handles and trying out several contrived spelling interactions, he thought, “Maybe I’ll just create a new word…because at this stage in 2019, you have to create a word to get your Instagram account and social media. The [web site] domain was $12…it was
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