Wolfgang Joop (born November 18, 1944 in Potsdam) is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP!.
After completing his Abitur at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium high school in Braunschweig, Joop began to study advertising psychology in Braunschweig at the insistence of his father. He was not interested in this course of study, and did not complete it. He next worked as a restaurateur and got involved in art. In 1...
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Wolfgang Joop (born November 18, 1944 in Potsdam) is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP!.
After completing his Abitur at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium high school in Braunschweig, Joop began to study advertising psychology in Braunschweig at the insistence of his father. He was not interested in this course of study, and did not complete it. He next worked as a restaurateur and got involved in art. In 1968 he started formal studies of art, which he never completed.
Joop's career began in 1970, when he and his then wife Karin participated in fashion competition sponsored by the German magazine Constance and won the three top prizes. Following this success Joop became a fashion editor at the women's magazine Neue Mode. He left this job in 1971 to work independently, among other things as a freelance journalist and designer.
Joop achieved international success in 1978, when he showed his first fur collection, which the New York Times, among...
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