Tim Weiland, popularly known as Timo Weiland, is an American

fashion designer Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

disc jockey A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include Radio personality, radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music f ...

and

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, as well as the co-founder and

creative director A creative director (or creative supervisor) is a person who makes high-level creative decisions and, with those decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Creative director positions ar ...

of the Timo Weiland brand.

Biography

Timo Weiland was born in

Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...

, and raised in

Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the ...

. Weiland studied

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

Spanish literature Spanish literature generally refers to literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects wit ...

, and

business management Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

before moving to the fashion and design industry. When he graduated in 2006, he worked as a corporate analyst in

investment banking Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated wit ...

for

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...

Securities, Inc. in

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. In that same year, Weiland founded TIMO!, a collection of graphic wallets. In 2009, Weiland co-founded a brand and business development consulting firm for

startups A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses t ...

. It was through this consulting venture that he met his business partner, Alan Eckstein. Weiland co-founded the clothing brand Timo Weiland with Alan Eckstein and Donna Kang. Weiland, creative director of the Timo Weiland brand, and Eckstein, design director, climbed up the DJ circuit under the stage name "Timo+Alan" and have performed at New York City hotspots such as the

Soho Grand Hotel The Soho Grand Hotel is a hotel located at 310 West Broadway between Grand and Canal Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City at the former location of Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori. It has 353 guest rooms, including ...

, the Red Egg,

The Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, The Met, The Museum of Arts and Design, Jumpin Jack’s,

David H. Koch Theater The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center, at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally ...

, and the

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

. In the summer of 2018, Weiland cofounded The Lead, a vertical media company designed to help fashion and lifestyle retailers find business opportunities in the technology market. The Lead serves as a "bridge" between the fashion and technology communities by organizing events and producing a quarterly publication. In January 2023, Weiland participated in a $2.5 million seed round for Brooklyn-based coffee concentrate startup, Explorer.

Recognition for work in fashion

Style Caster called Tim Weiland one of the top ten breakout fashion designers of 2010. In 2011, Weiland was nominated for the

Ecco Domani Ecco Domani is the brand of an Italian wine company selling in the United States, Canada, and Northern Europe, with marketing and distribution by E & J Gallo Winery. It was founded in 1996 and is led by Fabrizio Gatto. ''Market Watch'' named it one ...

award for his women’s and men’s lines. Weiland was later selected to sit on the

Council of Fashion Designers of America The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA), founded in 1962 by publicist Eleanor Lambert, and headquartered in Manhattan, is a not-for-profit trade association comprising a membership of over 450 American fashion and accessory des ...

’s Fashion Incubator program alongside

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. Tim Weiland was also an International

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prize finalist in 2013. In 2014, Weiland won the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award. He was part of the 2012-14 Fashion Incubator Class, a business development program that supports the next generation of fashion designers in New York City. It was announced in September 2015 that Weiland would be working with

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to produce a capsule collection for the Spring 2016 line. In 2016, Weiland's brand received the inaugural CFDA x

Cadillac The Cadillac Motor Car Division () is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) that designs and builds luxury vehicles. Its major markets are the United States, Canada, and China. Cadillac models are distributed i ...

Retail lab grant of $75,000 and three months of retail space at

's world headquarters in New York City. Later that same year, Weiland's company was named the style director for

Crowne Plaza Crowne Plaza is a British multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. It caters to business travelers and the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family ...

and debuted a line of uniforms for the hotel chain. Weiland was recognized by ''Forbes'' for opening his first

brick-and-mortar Brick and mortar (also bricks and mortar or B&M) refers to a physical presence of an organization or business in a building or other structure. The term ''brick-and-mortar business'' is often used to refer to a company that possesses or leases r ...

retail location in a partnership with Zenni Optical.

References

External links

''The Fashion Spot'' Interview

''Interview Magazine''Timo Weiland 2021
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weiland, Timo American fashion designers Living people Artists from Omaha, Nebraska Year of birth missing (living people) Artists from Jacksonville, Florida