Max­i­m­il­ian Rit­tler, a 29-year old menswear design­er from Vien­na, was always fas­ci­nat­ed by fine arts and draw­ing in par­tic­u­lar. He worked with many mate­ri­als and exper­i­ment­ed with lots of tech­niques long before he was inter­est­ed in fash­ion. With­in his tech­ni­cal edu­ca­tion­al back­ground in Vien­na, he learned pat­tern­mak­ing, con­struct­ing and mak­ing of gar­ments, dra­page, shoe­mak­ing, knit­ting, millinery and print­mak­ing, before mov­ing to Antwerp to improve his cre­ative process. Last year he grad­u­at­ed from the Antwerp Fash­ion Depart­ment with a 100% upcy­cled col­lec­tion. Since then, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in Lon­don Fash­ion Week and is nom­i­nat­ed for the Hyères fes­ti­val 2020.