Anne Sofie Madsen (born 1979)[1] is a Danish illustrator and avant-garde fashion designer who grew up on the island of Funen.
[2] Although she showed an early interest in fashion after seeing a collection designed by Jean Paul Gaultier in one of her mother's magazines,[6] on matriculating from high school, she first attended art college where she trained to become an illustrator.
[2] Thereafter, she contributed illustrations to magazines and children's books and joined an animation class at the National Film School of Denmark as a guest student.
In May 2007, she returned to Denmark to study for a master's degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design.
[13][14] Madsen has described a variety of sources of inspiration for her designs, such as mythology and museums,[15] the Nike Air Force One shoe,[16] classic aliens with big eyes and long, thin necks,[16] the Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Miami, Florida, with its "vision of abandoned thrills and discarded pleasures",[10] Jesper Just's art film, Sirens of Chrome (2010),[17] and "contrasts and borders between the primitive and civilized, the exotic and classic, the barbaric and elegant, the futuristic and historical".
[19] In 2021 she collaborated with crochet artist Lulu Kaalund[20] to produce a limited edition of eleven handmade designs, using materials including leather, suede, cotton and wool.