SHONBERGER Dirk (Dirk Schonberger)

Dirk Shonberger was born in 1966 in the German town, endowed Product Name cologne - Cologne. 'I come from a bourgeois family. My father was a lawyer, and his mother worked with him. I was always ready to difficulties' - he once said the newspaper Toronto Sun.

His first interest in the clothing itself in the early years, when Dirk took the old costumes father and grandfather and reshape them to their own taste, without drawing, and any instructions. Start a career as a professional designer he helped to design training courses in Florence and then in the Munich branch of the International School of Design ESMOD, where he graduated with a diploma for the best collection of men's clothing. 'It was hard to obey the rules, and I was almost kicked in the second year. But by the end of the third year I was the best student '- recalls Shonberger.

After leaving school he went to Antwerp, where he worked for 4 years as an assistant to Dirk Bikkembergsa. In 1996, united with Roel de cumene (Roel de Cooman), Dirk began work on a collection under his own name. The first collection of men's clothing was introduced in June 1996. Subsequent demonstrations in Paris in July and September of that year, attracted the attention of buyers from the Berlin department store Galeries Lafayette - the younger brother of Paris store, . who offered Shonbergeru, . as the best new German designer, . present their model in the capital of Germany,
. In late 1996, Dirk Shonberger signed an exclusive contract to produce its models with the Belgian company dis.co bvb, which represents the German designer in Paris and Antwerp shourmah. In January 1998, a collection of Dirk Schonberger 'Big boys don't cry' was first introduced in the official calendar of the Week for men's fashion in Paris.

Since the summer of 2000, all collections are named Dirk Shonbergera VERSTARKER variation: with serial number 'variation': 01 - Fall-Winter 2000/01, 02 - Spring-Summer 2001, etc.