"Johannes Warnke grew up in Estenfeld, a small village near Würzburg, Germany, where his childhood was framed by stark contrasts: his mother's garden overflowing with flowers and fruit trees on one side, and the postwar concrete of brutalist housing blocks on the other. In the church nearby, cubist stained glass filtered colour into the grey interior, planting early seeds of fascination with a sense of duality - light and shadow, fragility and strength - that continue to shape his work today."
"He was five when fashion captured his imagination. He began sketching teenagers - "for me they just had style," he says now. Warnke also danced semi-professionally from the age of seven to 20, training in ballet, contemporary, hip-hop, jazz and tap, and he painted obsessively. Those disciplines became inseparable from his approach to design: immediacy, rhythm, the brushstroke, the body in motion. At 21, Warnke escaped to London and studied fashion design with marketing at Central Saint Martins."
Johannes Warnke is a German designer based between Berlin and London. He grew up in Estenfeld near Würzburg, where contrasts between his mother's garden and brutalist housing blocks shaped an early interest in duality. Cubist stained glass in a nearby church introduced colour and light contrasts that continue to influence his aesthetic. He began sketching at five and trained in multiple dance disciplines from seven to twenty. Painting and dance informed immediacy, rhythm, and the body in motion in his design approach. He studied at Central Saint Martins, interned with Balmain, Viktor & Rolf and Charles Jeffrey, and developed a signature draping technique using wire and translucent fabrics.
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