Johnson Hartig

Johnson Hartig is an American fashion designer. He co-founded the fashion line Libertine and is the current CEO and Creative Director.

Hartig's work has been featured in Vogue, The World of Interiors, New York Times, and has been worn by a number of celebrities.

"The clothes are joyful, multimedia, collaged art pieces as likely to be worn by society matriarchs as twentysomething rock 'n' rollers,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

His book, Libertine: The Creative Beauty, Humor, and Inspiration Behind the Cult Label, was published by Rizzoli in 2015.

Early life and education Hartig was born in Whittier, California. As a youngster, he was taught to sew by his grandmother and the lady next door. Later, he traveled the world learning about different cultures because his father worked for an international oil company. Returning to the United States, he attended California State University.

Career Settling in Los Angeles, Hartig founded the Libertine clothing line in 2001 with DKNY graphic designer Cindy Greene, a vocalist of electro-pop band Fischerspooner. in 2003, the magazine subsequently has featured his clothes several times. The following year Libertine was nominated as one of the 10 semi-finalists in the first CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund which was documented in the film Seamless, directed by Douglass Keeve.

He became one of the first designers to create a line for the Wear LACMA project, which was sold to benefit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For the museum's 50th anniversary in 2015, Hartig was one of those who created new Wear LACMA pieces to mark the occasion.

Among the celebrities who wear Hartig's Libertine clothes include Mick Jagger, Offset, Martha Stewart, Young Thug, Gwen Stefani, 2 Chainz, Beyonce, Katy Perry, LL Cool J, Sting, Cher, Taylor Swift, P Diddy, Usher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Cyndi Lauper, Brandi Carlile, and Damien Hirst.

In February 2022, Hartig created luxury-apparel line with fashion brand Desigual with a collection of women's clothing that showed its funniest and most non-conformist version and celebrated excess, ornament, roundness and punk.

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