A Profound Connection

Luke and Lucie Meier’s personal styles embody the Jil Sander brand codes: sleek and minimalistic. Each joined the brand with an impressive resume in fashion: Luke was Supreme’s Creative Director for 8 years and co-founded the luxury street style brand OAMC with Carhartt WIP’s former creative director in 2014; Lucie was at Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Christian Dior and worked with fashion giant including Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs and Raf Simons. After Simons left Dior, she stepped up to the role of Creative Director for womenswear and helmed five stunning collections.

It’s Meant To Be

Their relationship started in 2001 when the two Polimoda fashion school students happend to rent the same apartment. Perhaps it was their daily encounters, or perhaps it was an unforgettable trip that brought the two closer, but it was after a road trip that they finally sealed the relationship.

Luke grew up in Vancouver, Canada, while Lucie hails from the Swiss Alps. The two are strikingly different: Luke with his buzzcut and serious demeanour boasts the air of a practicalist, but Lucie with her golden locks is a romanticist at heart. Before fashion, Luke majored in finance at Georgetown University. Soon after, he realised that his ambitions were not to be an economist nor investment banker and transferred to study design at the Fashion Institute of Technology instead. It was there that he had the opportunity to go on exchange in Florence where he met his future wife, Lucie. 

At the time, Lucie was studying fashion merchandising at Polimoda and it was Luke’s way of speech that caught her attention. Their conversations seem to flow endlessly. During an interview with Vogue India, Luke shared, “That first conversation between the two of us, whether it’s about film, photography, art or music, forms the blueprint for the collection—we never throw it together two weeks before the show. Our relationship has been based around this sort of dialogue for more than 15 years, since we met while studying [at Polimoda fashion school in Florence]”.