From modeling products to product modeling, former fashion figure and current designer Alexa Lixfeld always delivers something eye-catching. Many of Alexa’s Hamburg-based studio creations challenge conventional uses of common materials. Her experimental projects range from “surreal-sized” jewelry to concrete tableware. Equally inventive is Alexa’s effort to end poverty in Sri Lanka. Using children’s drawings as her blueprints and local cotton as her materials, she created a line of hand-dyed dolls to raise money for education and employment in the region. See what inspires this maverick designer below.
1. How would you describe your work in three words?
Courage, free spirit, artistic.
2. Who is your creative role model?
I don’t have one.
3. If you had an extra hour each day what would you do with it?
Yoga.
4. What place in the world most inspires you and why?
Rural places because of their nativity.
5. If you could do a different job for a day what would it be and why?
I would check out UNESCO because I am curious about working in political scale.
6. What is your favorite homemade gift to give?
Marmalade.
7. What is your favorite object in your home?
My perfectly comfortable couch.
8. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
To follow my heart, to believe in my instinct.
9. What websites do you use for inspiration?
Diverse.
10. When do you consider a piece of your work complete?
When I exhibit it.
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