Heinz Oestergaard was a German fashion designer.

He was considered one of the leading German fashion designer of the postwar period. After wins in Berlin, where he designed clothes for with Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander

Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

 and Maria Schell

Maria Schell

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise....

. Oestergaard went to Munich in 1967, where he became the fashion manager at source and once there he replaced for the bodice

Bodice

A bodice, historically, is an article of clothing for women, covering the body from the neck to the waist. In modern usage it typically refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, or to the upper portion of a modern dress to distinguish it from...

 used by wire stretch fabric. In 1971 he designed police uniforms and the green uniforms of the German police

Landespolizei

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 forces.

Awards

• 1996: Verdienstorden des Landes (Merit Order of the State of Berlin)
• 1996: Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. (Federal Cross of Merit) 1st Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

External links

• Homepage Heinz Oestergaard
• Wearable fashion for millions of people 2003
• Er liebte das Leben, die Menschen und seine Arbeit wie kein anderer: Oestergaard ist verstorben auf uni-protokolle.de. He loved life, people and his work like no other: Oestergaard died on uni-protokolle.de.