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Name:
Klaus Haapaniemi
Location:
London, UK
Web Sites:
www.wretch.cc
www.klaush.com/
www.overthehillgang.com/
Influences/Inspiration:
Tennis, Motorcycles (Custom magnas/ Sabres), Going out with friends, Clubbing, gossips, Nuclear eighties, Hell's kitchen, Bjorn Borg, Enid Blyton's books, Big Brother UK, Sherlock Holmes, Mia, Customized sneakers, Kites, Shotgun and cross-bow shooting, Nokia telephones, Partying, Russia, Puff Daddy, Partying, Werner Herzog, Popeda, Saturday late breakfasts, Fast times at Ridge Mont high, Rimini dance scene, Hastings customized motorbike festival, Lucky Seven (Notting Hill), Summer, Less than zero, Lavazza coffee, Putte the cat, Rolls royce phantom, Selfridges, Cherry beer, gothic underwear, Martinis, Burlesque, Bistrotheque, Japan, House roof jumping, Light drugs, Rhode Island, Glasgow, Raymond Briggs, Spaghetti, Hand soap by Nina Ricci, Mussels, National Lampoons: Animal house, etc.
Top 5 favorite things in life:
same as above!
Top 5 bands/singers:
Bastards, Kaaos, Terveet Kadet, Riistetyt, Appendix
London based Designer, Illustrator and Graphic artists Klaus Haapaniemi work has become as recognizable and popular as it can get in relative short time.
His backround traces to the key print designer for Diesel Style lab and working as creative director and illustrator for Italian fashion label Bantam.
Originally Finnish born, Klaus Haapaniemi is currently one of the Britain's leading fashion illustrators who's latest work contains such highlights as designs for Christmas windows for the Selfridges department store and special edition Christmas storybook made together with celebrity writers Such as Madonna's daughter Lourdes, Jamie Cullum and David Hasselhoff.
He is regular contributor for Uk's trendies news magazine
Observer and he also finds time to freelance for fashion companies.
One of his recent commissions include a print collection for French
fashion house Cacharel made together with designers Suzanne Clements
and Inicio Ribeiro, His own wall tapestry collection is currently under
production in italy. Klaus Haapaniemi's monogram book 'Giants' is published
both In UK and U.S.
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