Jessie Hill

 Jessie Hill is a leading member of Australia’s new breed of exciting, innovative fashion designers. Always evolving and yet with an established, sharply honed aesthetic, Hill’s designs reflect her sharp sense of style and even sharper intellect, often blurring the lines between fashion and art.

Beginning her career at just 17, Hill moved from Sydney to the Los Angeles. Working as a stylist for MTV, her independent, cerebral sense of fashion soon caught the attention of the international fashion community.

Impressed by her unique and somewhat rebellious sensibility, cult label Buddhist Punk approached Hill to join them in London as women’s wear designer. Proving to be a perfect fit for both designer and label, Hill’s freshman collection for Buddhist Punk debuted at New York Fashion Week Spring/summer 05, with Vogue’s online arm, Style.com, hailing the show as the event’s “unofficial big bang finale.”

Just one year later, Hill’s designs launched during Australian Fashion Week Spring/summer 2007, however this time under the eponymous Jessie Hill label. It was a collection that established Jessie Hill as a label to watch, a label as playful as it is challenging, conceptual as it is wearable. Fragile yet sinister, deceptively simple yet wondrously detailed, the collection heralded the unique aesthetic that would come to define both Hill and her designs.

Jessie Hill label is stocked in leading boutiques throughout Australia and internationally in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, and New Zealand. Jessie hill has has been making a splash regularly in the pages of Harpers Bizaar, Grazia, Vogue, Dazed and confused, and most recently on the cover of Oyster magazine.

Time and time again, Hill juxtaposes her two great loves, art and design,  to create garments that tell a story both singly and collectively. Drawing on a cultural reference, from Mia Farrow to Salvador Dali, Hill crafts a thematic vision and applies it across all the pieces in her collection.  Jessie Hill’s much-loved films are a muse and a central character, from which flows the mise en scene of mood, tone and style.

Regardless of the reference for each collection, Hill’s designs are consistently and distinctively her own. Immediately recognizable for their exquisite detail and embellishment, Hill employs under utilized techniques such as intricate hand beading, pleating, cupping and embroidery, applied to exotic and notoriously difficult fabrics such as hand painted silks, Italian silk jersey, silk organza and luxurious merino cashmere unifying her collections with exquisitely handcrafted line of shoes. The result is truly breathtaking designs, each one reflective of Hill’s vision, skill and dedication to her craft.

Hill has been acclaimed in the recent publication “Love That Black Dress” ( published by The File Mile Press, and was recently recognized in the 2008 Chambord Design Awards as a finalist.