Hildur Yeoman

Hildur Björk Yeoman
Born the 6th of December 1983 in Reykjavik.

Hildur started her career in fashion at a very young age due to being practically blind as a child she was quite calm and mostly enjoyed playing indoors. She was obsessed with drawing paper dolls and making new cloths for her Barbie dolls because she found her attire was to fancy for the tragedies she had in store for her. From the age of nine she was determined to become a fashion designer, well that or an astronaut. She even got a telescope for her confirmation present.

At age fifteen she headed for MR and finished two years in the natural science department before abandoning her former dream of one day becoming an astronaut for high heels and a career in the arts.  She finished her two foundation years in art only to realize she was to vain for the arts and headed for a career in fashion instead. She was excepted in the fashion department of the art academy of Iceland so there was no turning back.

She went to Paris during fashion week her first semester to work for Yazbukey a label created by 2 Ottoman princesses. There she also worked as a dresser for Lutz and Gaspard  Yurkevitch. Besides going to see the shows of Bernard Wilhelm, Alexander McQueen and Herkovitch.

That spring she showed 3 outfits for women at the annual student fashion show. They were inspired by children's sailor outfits and big children's bows. The collection was very colorful and a bit clowny.

During that summer Hildur went to London to work for the designer Jonathan Saunders for 4 months. She was interested in working for him because he is a great print maker and a good designer and took a lot from this experience.

In the second year show she had 4 outfits inspired from men's street wear, with big forms and (dúskum). This show was an important risk taking experience that took her somewhere else in her design.

During here last year at the academy she went for exchange at UDK in Berlin. They had good technical courses and pattern cutting classes and great guest teachers such as AF Vandervorst but the city was maybe the best school of all. She came back half a year before her graduation ready to make more mature clothes, she wanted to make her sculptures more wearable.

Before graduating she co-designed the costumes for Sylvia Night for the euro vision song contest. Sylvia is a persona created by Ágústa an actress who was making a satire out of the whole competition so she gained a lot of support as this surreal persona.

At this time Hildur started an atelier with a couple of friends who are also fashion designers while she was preparing her final collection for the graduation. The collection was inspired by silent movie stars and ancient Egyptians. There was a lot of handwork in the making of the collection she made a series of devoré prints, she had corset collars and  little details. The collection contained a lot of jerseys, devoré, cotton and wool fabrics. It was a dark collection the colorsceme was mainly made up of various black, grey, white tones with a tiny bit of bright blue.

After graduation she was offered to be the creative director for a new fashion brand Brigitte Bird (brigittebird.com). She made two collections for that brand F/W 2007 and S/S 2008. The F/W collection was based on her graduation but went to a lot of changes and was made more wearable. The S/S 08 collection is inspired by old romantic paintings of the pre rafaelites, children's clothes from Victorian time mixed with a safari attitude. There is lot of striped fabric and buttons covered with fabric and the look was very graphic. The colors were creamy, sand, white, grey blue and black. There were various cotton fabrics with stretch, striped cotton, light wool and a little bit of strided devore.

Along side this work Hildur  has been working as an fashion illustrator. She recently created a series of illustrations for a brand called Thelma, an accessories brand based in Paris. She will be joining Thelma in Paris for some work this September.

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