November 2000 issue of Jessica
The opening image of a Chinese-language profile of Claudia Hill in the magazine's designer section, credited to photographer Koichiro Shiiki with styling by Pat Chu. No article text appears on this page, only a full-page photograph of two models facing each other in profile.
The third installment of a series profiling twenty-first-century American fashion talents, headlined New Generation Designer: Claudia Hill, Who Pursues Feeling. The Chinese text introduces her as German-born and New York-based, notes she once worked as a costume designer on the musical Rent, and states her label had by then released three seasons, sold in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Japan.
Continuation of the Jessica profile, in Chinese-language interview format. Hill describes designing by feeling rather than under pressure, recounts an earlier career as a dancer and as a costume designer for film and theater, and traces her label back through an earlier collaborative casualwear line before her Spring 1999 debut under her own name. It also notes she left two fashion schools without finishing a degree, having begun sewing with her mother at age eleven.
Concludes the Jessica profile with Hill's views on American fashion: she says she found New York street style disappointingly plain and prefers an experimental sensibility distant from mainstream labels. She compares dressing the body to building a house around it, and recalls staging shows as short films or in warehouses rather than on a runway. A closing editor's note describes her as tall, pale and shy, warming up over the course of the interview.
