georg andreas suhr

Berlin · Bangalore · Beijing

Over 25 years experience as a creative director in the fields of corporate identity, design strategy, branding and communication concepts in agencies in Germany, Switzerland and India.

Since 2004, he has been a Berlin-based freelancer with clients from the conventional and ethical fashion industry in Europe and Asia.

Since 1996 Georg Andreas has also worked as a lecturer at the “design akademie berlin”, university for communications design and marketing communications. In addition, he has undertaken professional training, lectures and workshops such as „how to create a brand“, as well as extension studies at different universities and academies, domestically and abroad.

Since 2009 he has visited India periodically for intercultural exchange and has worked as an international brand consultant and creative director in the fields of fashion, lifestyle and design for labels, designers and companies from India and China.

In 2016 he has also started a partnership together with the Thai Trade Center Berlin in cooperation with the DITP Bangkok. He is a speaker at the BIFF Bangkok International Fashion Fair in Bangkok 2016 and promotes handcrafted organic products and projects from Asia. As a fighter for a better fashion world, his focus is on ethical fashion, and he started a partnership with the Indo-German project "cocccon – creativity can care" from Jharkhand, India in 2012. He has presented Indian and international labels and fashion designers in Europe during the fashion weeks. Every season since 2012 he has been active at the Ethical Fashion Show Berlin and Green Showroom Berlin, promoting organic fashion from India and other countries. Together with Chandra Prakash Jha, founder of cocccon, he also runs his own label with organic non-violence silk scarves (Ahimsa Silk) under the brand "GEORGE by cocccon".

He is a co-founder of two other start-up fashion labels in cooperation with Indian partners. As a fashion expert he travels frequently to the main fashion weeks in India and Europe and writes monthly articles for European and Indian design, lifestyle and fashion professional magazines. His global design and fashion network is focused on the Asian markets with partners in India, China, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, South Korea and Middle East. Of course, he possesses a good network in Germany and Europe and is active in the sustainable fashion scene in the newcomer fashion metropolis Berlin.