Saskia Baur-Schmid is the Melbourne-based founder and conscious creative behind the emerging slow fashion label Hyph-n.

Having been introduced to sewing by her grandmother as a child, Saskia went on to study at the Whitehouse Institute, Melbourne and completed her BA in Fashion Design as ‘Designer of the Year’.

She thereafter re-trained internationally as a fashion stylist before returning to Australia where her work has been exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria, and Arts of Fashion Design Showcase in the USA.

She went on to establish her label Hyph-n in 2019 with the aims to disrupt and reimagine the way fashion is designed and made by challenging the relationships we have with our clothes.

The label is focused on sustainable fabrics, the premise of minimum impact, and works on a made to order model to eliminate waste in the production process.

The brand focuses on zero waste pattern cutting, modern silhouettes and challenging the aesthetics of sustainable fashion by creating new appreciation of traditional craftsmanship but doing so in a way that won’t break the planet.

Her work has more recently been shortlisted as a semi-finalist for both the 2020 and 2021 Redress Design Award and as a finalist in the 2020 Sustainable Biennial Design Festival (AU).