Kan Easter without rabbits. And no Easter without eggs. But anyone who thinks that it only has to be chicken eggs that are delicately hung on bushes is wrong. It can also be larger. At least with Michelle Kramer. The trained fashion designer from Neu-Isenburg was at a trade fair six years ago, at that time still working on behalf of her parents’ jewelry business, when a woman asked for certain stones to decorate her ostrich eggs. Kramer couldn’t help her, but glanced over at the customer, who had a stand nearby herself. “I will never forget that moment,” recalls the fifty-year-old. After years in the jewelry business, she was looking for a new challenge anyway. And when you saw the robust, XXL-sized egg, the new perspective was suddenly there.
Since then she has been running the label “Ei-nzigartig”, only on the side and since last year full-time. She runs the company together with her husband Frank, who is responsible for sales. Her creations range from naturalistic hare drawings that are coated with fine, silvery powder, to hare heads decorated with flowers, to stylish “hare models” designed in the style of well-known designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier or fashion icon Iris Apfel – although these models can actually adorn an Easter bouquet, as they come from the nandu or the goose and are therefore significantly smaller than the ostrich counterpart. But even the goose variant is still larger than a hen’s egg. She gets the Nandu eggs from a private owner in Darmstadt. There she can also be sure that the animals are well kept, as she says. In terms of size, they are somewhere between a goose and an ostrich. Kramer likes to use the specimens for designs with feathers from the rooster or the colorful feathers of the king pheasant.