Victoria Hill
New York
With Fabrique since 2023
Background
ALTUZARRA knitwear director; Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, Calvin Klein alum. 10+ years transforming yarns into art installations through jacquard textures and material innovation.
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Victoria Hill knows exactly what happens when you push yarn beyond its comfort zone. The New York-based designer, who has spent over a decade perfecting her craft, currently serves as knitwear design director at ALTUZARRA, where she forces soft threads into collision with jacquard textures, decorative materials, and layered color combinations. Her technique centers on stretching knitwear's inherent tension, creating pieces that function as wearable art installations designed to provoke thought. Each garment emerges from her understanding that knitwear can be both conceptually challenging and completely practical.
Her career reads like a study in technical evolution. At Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, and Calvin Klein's ready-to-wear collections, Hill developed her signature approach to contemporary dressing—creating minimalist pieces that capture how modern women navigate fast-paced lives while maintaining effortless sophistication. Her material exploration focuses specifically on wool and alpaca fibers, engineered to break traditional boundaries between style and comfort. Hill's mastery lies in controlling yarn expression to achieve what she calls the perfect balance: pieces that are soft yet resilient, warm, and perfectly calibrated in tension. Whether creating experimental layered constructions or timeless everyday essentials, she handles every strand with surgical precision.
Her Fabrique collaboration reveals Hill's philosophy in full form—knitwear's endless playfulness starting from a single yarn thread. She invents new knitting and crochet methods, extending traditional techniques into contemporary territory that balances innovation with real-world wearability. The collection merges gentle feminine qualities with straightforward modern contours, creating pieces that integrate seamlessly into existing wardrobes while projecting confident, distinctly feminine style. "These designs are playful, beautiful, and light," Hill explains, "they work with anything in your closet to create that satisfied, confident, feminine look."
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