Born in Germany and trained in fashion design and pattern making at Paris’s ESMOD, Tina Lutz Morris worked for Issey Miyake in Paris and Tokyo before moving 1992 to New York to work for Calvin Klein, at a time when critics considered Calvin Klein groundbreaking for his timely approach as well as his headline-making ad campaigns in the 1990s.

In 2000, Tina co-founded Lutz & Patmos in New York, a women’s ready-to-wear line that focused on luxury knitwear. In her role as creative and branding director for over a decade, Tina spearheaded innovative, multi-platform collaborations.

She developed the notable ‘Guest Designer’ series of charitable partnerships with creative luminaries including Julianne Moore, Sofia Coppola, Jane Birkin, Carine Roitfeld, Kirsten Dunst, Christy Turlington, Ines van Lamsweerde, Liv Tyler, Fabien Baron, Richard Meier, Natalia Vodianova and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Additionally, Tina worked with multiple companies on various brand collaborations, such as Lutz & Patmos x Uniqlo, multiple season knitwear collections for Coach and a homeware collection for West Elm. She also served as adjunct professor and mentor at RISD.

After 24 years in New York, Tina returned to Germany and launched Lutz Morris, a line of German made luxury handbags based on her career-long passion for artisanship, responsible production and altruism. Tina now lives and works in Milan.