Michelle Jank was born in 1976 in Perth, she completed her final year of fashion design at Sydney Institute of Technology in 1999. Since then she has had several solo shows at Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, shown at New York Fashion Week and styled fashion shoots for Vogue Australia and catwalk shows for various Australian designers.
She calls herself a magpie collector, seeking out jewellery, laces and textiles in antique and second-hand shops. Delighting in their beauty and rich history these collected treasures form the starting point for Jank's designs. She collages, layers and hand stitches her found pieces into garments whose luscious textures, visual appeal as well as a mysterious and evocative past make them exclusive and treasured pieces.
Primarily a fashion designer but with a very strong interest in non traditional jewellery, she applies similar techniques to large collars, adorning them with silk flowers, PVC bows and crystals. Her jewellery line, solely bought by very influential Australian store, Belinda has now caught the attention of Colette, in Paris and Dover Street Market in London, who currently stock her collection. Michelle Jank is now living and working in Paris
