Kevin Weber
Fashion Design — Contemporary Menswear · Pforzheim, DE
Fashion designer focused on garment construction & experimental presentation
Currently studying Fashion (B.A.) at Pforzheim University of Design, after graduating as a state-recognized fashion designer from the Kehrer Design Academy in Stuttgart. My work centers on contemporary menswear, upcycling and material research — with a strong interest in East Asian fashion culture, visual storytelling and interdisciplinary design approaches.
Skills
Languages
German (native) · English (B2/C1) · Russian (A2) · Latin (Latinum)
Education
Tailored and patterned cuts, realized through my own sewing techniques.
Experience
Designed and built the set for a panel talk on up-and-coming fashion brands; speaker care and production support.
Running the department's Instagram; supporting students in pattern construction and garment realization.
Led a small design team exhibiting and selling garments as an installation, organized by neer berlin.
Column Hall show and the Long Night of Museums, incl. presentation in the historic Paternoster elevator.
01 / SS 26
Searching, digging, slogging away
02 / 2025 — Hochschule Pforzheim, WS 25/26 · with Lorenz Keller
Out of the (Fashion)Box
Fashion as packaging for the body: discarded industrial materials — pig bladder, plastic waste — recontextualized as luxury through craft. Drawing on Mary Douglas' "matter out of place" and Kristeva's abjection, the collection challenges the semiotics of value in throwaway culture.
03 / 2025 — Hochschule Pforzheim
Mottainai
Mottainai (もったいない) — regret over waste. Discarded suits are deconstructed, reshaped and reconstructed into new forms, playing with sartorial codes and the tension between old and new — asking how fashion can reinvent itself sustainably.
04 / 2025 — Hochschule Pforzheim
Navigating the Blur
Reality as a choice: on the growing inability to distinguish reality, dreams and the digital. Referencing J.C. Flügel's theories on shame, protection and the extended body-self, the outfit embodies a wearer navigating disorientation — trapped, perhaps, in layers of illusion.
05 / 2025 — Hochschule Pforzheim
Siberia Lake Baikal
Formed from discarded secondhand garments and coated in a dough-like layer, the piece carries its own fragility — leaving traces wherever it moves. Drawing on the world of Siberian fishermen and my family's heritage: romanticized memory against the harsh reality of survival.
06 / 2025 — Hochschule Pforzheim
Molting Cocoon
A study of shedding and transformation — garments layered and dyed into a cocoon the wearer molts out of.
Index
All projects · 2025 — 26
