Sarah Schipper, born in 1980 in North Rhine-Westphalia, has been studying Design at the Köln International School of Design since 2007 . Before her studies, she completed an apprenticeship in photography and worked in this profession. Her pre-diploma in the field of gender and design dealt with the gender-orientation of equestrianism, in particular with the phenomenon of pre-pubescent girls’ love of horses and its impact on design. To work on that topic, she looked for a psychological explanation for this phenomenon, worked out questionnaires for salespeople and interviewed children of an appropriate age.