Dorothee Schumacher

Dorothee Schumacher was born in Dusseldorf and grew up in the German countryside. After gaining initial work experience with an Italian knitwear manufacturer and several stays in France, she founded her own label in 1989 with a T-shirt collection. A signature style of an extraordinary sense for colours, natural confidence, elegant friction and feminine sophistication was immediately visible in this first collection. After just three years, Dorothee Schumacher extended her collections by adding knitwear in 1991 and opening her own first showroom in Dusseldorf in 1994, followed by showrooms in Paris and Milan in the following years. In the same year, she successfully expanded to Italy. In 1998, Dorothee Schumacher laid the foundation for her headquarters in the industrial port of Mannheim by transforming a former cardboard factory into a stunning two-story loft. Her collections include ready-to-wear and accessories for women. The mother and cosmopolite today operates 11 independent ...