Seems we’re fixed on the childhood experience of designers these days. Yesterday, we marveled when Alexis Bittar told Vogue Italia how he started selling vintage on the street at 13. Today, thanks to PSFK, we learned about the early training of Austrian knitwear sorceress, Michaela Buerger who parlayed her experiences crafting with her mother and grandmother and a little DIY couture designing in her teens into a collection that’s carried at Colette and Opening Ceremony. Said Buerger, “My childhood was wonderful, playing a lot in the nature, being outside. To earn a bit of money my mother knitted beautiful
traditional landscape cardigans, with little mills, apple trees and people—all very technically demanding work…
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