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Jil Sander and the Power of Love

Designers Luke and Lucie Meier have softened the fast-growing brand’s signature rigour with a newfound dreaminess that is all about them, writes Tim Blanks.

Jil Sander creative directors Luke Meier and Lucie Meier. — Designers Luke and Lucie Meier have softened Jil Sander’s signature rigour with a newfound dreaminess. (Jack Davison)

Tim Blanks

28 April 2023

Luke and Lucie Meier’s daughter Ella Rose will be two years old in no time at all. Luke’s been buying a lot of classic jazz from the Blue Note back catalogue so Ella Rose’s childhood will have a formative aural backdrop. “When she hears a certain record, it will take her back,” says Luke. “And old jazz is a good start.” That’s how he was raised in Vancouver, with a mother who was a music nut.

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