Ann-Sofie Johansson

Ann-Sofie Johansson is a Swedish fashion designer, known for being the Creative Advisor and former Head of Design for retailer H&M.

Early life and education

Johansson grew up in Ronneby, an hour away from Stockholm, Sweden.[1] As a youth, she shopped often at H&M, calling it the "heaven of fashion".[1]

After first thinking about becoming a veterinarian, Johansson instead pursued art science studies and archaeology at Gothenburg and Lund universities – it was then that she realized she wanted a career involving artistic creativity.[2] She took some evening courses in design at the Anders Beckman's School in Stockholm.[3]

Career at H&M

In 1987, after deciding she wanted to become a fashion designer, Johansson took a job as sales assistant at H&M.[2][4] Three years later, she showed her portfolio to company head of design Margareta van den Bosch and was given H&M's new position of design assistant.[5][2] From 1994 to 2005, Johansson worked as a designer for the Young department at H&M, before moving to the Ladies' department.[2] In 2008, Johansson was promoted to Head of Design, working with 140 designers, and in 2013 she began overseeing H&M's special collections shown in Paris.[2]

Johansson became Creative Advisor in 2015, and has subsequently worked as H&M's spokesperson and representative.[2] Her job involves travel, fashion research, designer collaborations, and the overseeing of H&M's "brand building" collections.[5]

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gollark: Except rewriting the currently entirely-server-rendered JS-free frontend to be a trendy single page application.
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gollark: Not writing code is taking up all my time.
gollark: I'm very busy avoiding working on my projects right now, I'm afraid.

References
  1. "Profile: H&M's creative brain Ann-Sofie Johansson on its designer collabs". Retail Week. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  2. "How I got my job... as an H&M fashion boss". www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
  3. Murphy, Robert (2008-01-16). "Ann-Sofie Johansson to Lead Design at H&M". WWD. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  4. "How to get a job in the fashion industry". www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  5. "The Drapers Interview: Ann-Sofie Johansson". Drapers. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
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