Tutia Schaad was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and has been a resident in Berlin since 2005, where she graduated this year at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. She has interned at the creative studio of Givenchy Haute Couture. Along with assisting in the collection development, she has designed a range of goods and textures for the Spring-Summer Collection 07. She has been successful in a number of Swiss competitions, for example she was a finalist in fashion competition "Podium Feminina 2007” and was nominated for the "Eidgenössische Förderpreise für Design 2009" with her diploma collection. In her work, Tutia likes to combine extremely varied fabrics such as latex with silk in order to create a diverse collaboration of materials and looks.
