The design of clothes are very simple. It seems it’s more about your use of textile and more about the concept how you represent them. What is the most important thing when you design clothes? What inspires you when you do textile work?

I love simple details and I enjoy making things people can use and wear. I create prints as a way to translate my ideas. There is a concept behind each print. I really enjoy making prints – it calms me down. For me the relationship between my materials and my thoughts is very interesting. Designing clothes allows me to use my senses. I use my hands to touch. Like meditation, when I stop thinking I get to realize a lot of things. Doing creative work for me is like closing up my eyes and then let all the images and thoughts freely fill up my mind. And when I open my eyes again, I let them out through my visual works. I think, at least for me, creativity is a reflection of everyday life. If you manage to be very sensitive to every day experience, you will be able to have sensitive reflections in your creative mind.

S/S 07 – Let Go! Don’t Look Back In Anger.

A lot of your work seems to have a story like theme, i.e. Random Words, Pen Lines, as well as films, and concepts of “Home”. What would you say is a theme that you feel strings your work together? What is the concept you wish to convey in your work.

I am very interested in relations. Relations between people, relations between things, relations between people and things and so on. I am interested in how things are connected? How people and things are connected? How people and people are connected? All the word pieces are random sentences or words pop up in my head while I observe something for a long time. Kind of like when I don’t think too much but just observe, the work (word) will come. And I just have to let the work (word) come when it comes! Like love, when love comes it comes. Concept? I guess there is love behind all things. And my duty is to catch it and share it with the others.

Janfamily – Plans For Other Days. A book published by Booth-Cibborn Editions, 2005. Edited and photographed by Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund

Do you do many collaborations with fellow creative? If so, how do you work, as a director or in a “symbiotic” relationship?

I work with many people. It depends on the project I am working on. When producing a short film, I work with many people. I also collaborate with different artists for print designs for my collection, mainly for the chicken print tee which is dedicated to my beloved Grandad, who used to keep a chicken farm when I was young.

A/W 06 – Love Hurts – But Everyone Should Fall In Love

How does your creative process develop/work?

At the moment, deadlines!

Ideally, I would like to travel more and have more time to sit and think. For me creative process is like growing plants. Once you give enough time and space, water, air and all the right conditions and nutrients, ideas will grow. And I just have to be calm and let it grow.

What are your inspirations and influences (in your environment and other artists)?

People around. Conversations. Lyrics. And Films.