has become Silent it is to Jil Sander. From time to time your Name flashes again in the media. As before, a good year, as in Frankfurt, a major exhibition on her life's work was opened. Or two years ago, as a city Palais in Hamburg for sale.

The danger, however, that Germany's flagship designer will not be forgotten. Her influence on fashion was huge. Today, Jil Sander is 75 years old. And it is likely that it is your birthday rather discreet.

Perhaps on the island of Ibiza, where she owns a Finca, and even your own olive oil can be produced. Or at Ruhleben near Plön, where the "hamburger" over many years, put together with her partner, Angelica Mommsen a beautiful garden. Than those 2013 terminally ill with cancer, changed the fashion-maker in your life.

she left the which she founded and, in the meantime, the Japanese Onward Luxury Group company. She had done that after the sale of the majority of shares of the Jil Sander AG (previously the Prada group) in the year 1999. But she was always returned at some point to your Post as chief designer. The fashion seemed not to let go of.

But this time she has apparently, after Mommsen's death in June 2014, finally your private life. In an Interview, which gave the otherwise rather elusive "hamburger" on the occasion of the Sander exhibition in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was the approachable. "A lot of people talk to me and are nice to me," she said. "I want to already get to know the people, things and the world as a private person."

taken aback, she stated in the same conversation that your customers have always lived very intensely with their designs. She met a peculiarity of their Mode to the point. Jil-Sander-makers committed with the skin and hair. Who had once attracted her clear, and at the same time soft and extremely luxurious parts, got rid of them again.

she has brought the art piece done to help women via clothes, a new self-understanding and awareness. Sander held against the, as you once said, "fashion Creator-bullshit" of the 1950s, the region of dresses from her youth. She created women's clothing made of Mr materials, which was not masculine, but feminine and flattering. And revolutionized the fashion world.

The fashionable purism found in her not only a pioneer, but also his most beautiful figurehead. In Germany, nationwide known, the designer was the end of the 1970s, as she made perfume advertising with your own face. Suddenly, everyone spoke of the blond woman with the clear trains, which was also an unusual, androgynous name. You had given yourself. Your own Name is Heidemarie Jiline sound of her sweet.

she was Born in 1943 in schleswig-Holstein, Wesselburen, but grew up in Hamburg with her mother and second husband. After training as a textile engineer, she went as an exchange student in the USA. Back in Germany, she worked as a fashion editor, and opened in 1967 in the chic Hamburg's Pöseldorf district, a Boutique, they also sold their own designs. This was the nucleus of their later Empire.

As one of the few German design sizes has managed to Jil Sander to be internationally recognized. For many years, her Name has been mentioned in the same breath with the fashion legends like Giorgio Armani or Calvin Klein. Even today, many women of the "true Sander to mourn". Even if the designers Lucie and Luke Meier just two very talented creative minds to lead the brand - the times when even the most elitist fashion editor ate inside for Jil Sander designs literally, are over. You put it more modestly: "In a way that is not entirely clear to me, I seem to have the trust of the people."