Jil Sander
Designer: Jil Sander

• “Jil Sander has returned, and it shows. No more dabbling into romantic or experimental styles, as happened when the label was in the creative hands of Raf Simons. It’s back to minimalist basics for the 68-year-old German designer.” {The Associated Press}
• “It was pure Jil Sander in its clean minimalism, and it was incredibly strong.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “After a decade away, Jil Sander returned to the label that bears her name with a 2013 spring collection that was tasteful, understated, beautifully proportioned but ultimately unremarkable. The collection was neither stunning nor disappointing, which is to say, it did not make an audacious attempt to soar.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “She’s back on the fashion roller-coaster: but so far, so in-control.” {The Daily Telegraph}
• “We … witnessed Sander’s emotional, triumphant renaissance of her particular brand of understatement in the form of pristine precision of a Teutonic order.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Nothing if not a perfectionist, Sander showed a collection that was precise and pretty.” {The Independent}
• “It was a fine effort and might have been considered a triumph of vision and will–if it had not been for the memory of the emotional collections created in her absence for the Jil Sander label by the designer Raf Simons.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Maybe the most important thing to take away from her show on Saturday was how powerful the Jil Sander brand is. At the most basic level it has survived three different corporate owners in the past decade. But Ms. Sander’s minimalist concept has proven to be incredibly durable and also expansive.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “Jil. Is. Back.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “It worked, within the confines of proving that Jil Sander’s eyes are open to the calibrations of change that have been absorbed into a contemporary female executive’s way of life. What was missing in the moment was the frisson of a collection that swept the audience with it.” {Vogue.com}
• “The show … easily put Sander back at the helm of clean and purposeful dressing the world over.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “It was a strong but imperfect déjà debut featuring some lovely clothes, some unresolved issues and a knockout finish.” {WWD}