Timo Weildand is a collection designed by Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein. The designers became friends and shared a common intrest of travel, history and style. Growing up, Timo spent his time between New York City and Jacksonville, Florida. His mother taught him how to sew and encouraged his interest in design and sketching. Despite his inclination towards the arts, Timo attended Vanderbilt University and studied Economics and Business Management.Alan Eckstein is from upstate New York and became interested in fashion in high school after reading the Style Section from the New York Times. Alan’s grandmother was a successful interior designer in New York City, and influenced Alan’s interest in style. Alan studied Advertising and Marketing at FIT.
Besides working on the Timo Weiland label, Alan and Timo also make short films. You can view them on their website under “Film.” Timo Weiland and his partner in design, Alan Eckstein, called their new collection A Wharf on the Baltic. The awkward title and styling of the collection ties well in together with a mixture of block colouring. The inspiration that the designers drew from for their spring 2011 ready to wear was, of Bibi Andersson, the Swedish charmer and muse to Bergman and Altman, and what she might wear in her fjord-side country house. That meant little tie-front blouses and jeans with a leg-lengthening and timely flare. Scandinavian wallpaper inspired a graphic, Marimekko-ish print, which Weiland and Eckstein showed in two colors in a pile-it-all-on skirtsuit.
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