Know your Style

Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl, Co-Founders of BurdaStyle dressed in BurdaStyle

Create your Fashion!

Welcome to BurdaStyle, your destination for do-it-yourself style. We like to think of this website as a virtual sewing circle, an open-source hub of ideas, expertise, and amazing patterns you can download and sew at home. We want you to learn something new every time you visit BurdaStyle. We want this website to inspire you. And most importantly, we want you to get involved: We're offering our ideas, expertise and downloadable patterns to the BurdaStyle community, and we hope that you'll contribute, too.

SHARE & SHARE ALIKE

There are many ways to be a part of BurdaStyle. Discuss sewing tricks and fixes with members of the BurdaStyle community. Add your sewing term definitions to the ones in our Sewpedia, or check out tips in our user-generated photo and video How Tos. Explore other users' creations in the Gallery, and upload photos of your own. You can even barter or sell what you make through BurdaStyle: Burda is the first established pattern publisher to release its designs without copyrights, allowing members of the public to market their BurdaStyle creations in limited editions.

THE BURDA IN BURDASTYLE

BurdaStyle is inspired by Burda Mode which was founded by Aenne Burda in 1949, Burda Mode is now published in 90 countries and 16 languages, and Burda patterns are recognized everywhere for their quality and consistency and, especially, for the incomparable accuracy of their fit. This exact-fit standard has been developed and perfected by Burda Mode over many years, and is the company's legacy. We at BurdaStyle are proud to carry that legacy forward.

Launched as Beta at DLD 07 on January 21st, 2007, BurdaStyle is a project of the R&D Marketing & Communications department of the German publishing house Hubert Burda Media. BurdaStyle was initiated by Steffi Czerny, the department's managing director an is greatly supported by its senior advisor Franziska Deecke, Head of Corporate Communities.

SEW WHAT?

It's not entirely coincidental that BurdaStyle headquarters used to be in shared office space with Etsy.com. Not only can BurdaStyle members upload their Etsy-mini shop onto their personal homepage- but we like to think that both BurdaStyle and Etsy are in the business of using new technology to drive old-fashioned craft. BurdaStyle is a celebration of the handmade and the heartfelt, the individual and idiosyncratic things we make ourselves, and is intended as a platform for experts and beginners alike. We can't wait to see what you create.