Karin Oèbster – KAYIKO designer

 

The Austrian avant-garde fashion designer Karin Oèbster has never lost sight of her goal of making fashion herself. The consequence: moving from the rural idyll of Salzburg to Vienna. During her training as a "women's clothing maker" she worked for the legendary Viennese label "Assasyn".

After the master's examination in Graz, she was offered the chance to realize her own ideas for the first time at the Pelzhaus Liska in Vienna. At that time, many unusual and completely new models for the fur industry were created, which caused a sensation at the fashion shows.

Two years later, the limits were explored and the next step offered the great opportunity: The confirmation of her talent came with the collections designed for the Swiss avant-garde designer Christa de Carouge from 1996 to 1999 – excellent reviews and sold-out collections.

At the same time, Karin Oèbster was already working on her own models, which manifested her preference for the aesthetics of Japanese design. Inspired by snapshots from her life and the daily “mental cinema” Karin Oèbster creates her own avant-garde fashion cosmos with KAYIKO since 1998.

Photo: Mischa Nawrata