Borchers lived in Bad Oeyhausen and Sydney, Australia until he completed high school, after which he attended design and fashion management school in Hamburg and New York City—graduating in 2010. He first attended a fashion show at the age of 21, with friend Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, as a guest of designer Richie Rich at his New York Fashion Week Heatherette runway show.
He is the owner and designer of his eponymous fashion house André Borchers. He has also collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. While living in New York City, Borchers worked as an assistant stylist for Saks Fifth Avenue and New York Magazine.
Giorgio Armani also invited him to his Milan fashion week runway shows.
Upon graduation, Borchers was redesigning pieces he purchased from other designers in order to create his own fashion looks, and then started his own fashion line. Borchers maintains residences in Hamburg, Paris, and New New York
In addition to his eponymous label, he is also the designer of the line of bags and accessories “Kin”. Each bag is made of leather, many of which have comic book printing on the exterior.
In addition Borchers has his own line for the catalogue company Otto to serve the commercial market.
He is also a designer for the “Neon Coutur” collection by Hamburg fashion house Bethge. In 2012 Borchers partnered with Blaken to produce a custom Rolex model labeled the "Deepsea". In 2014 Borchers also collaborated with the Turkish fashion label Fancy Alman, as a gesture and comment on the importance of integrating of Turkish immigrants into German society and overcoming ethnocentrism.
Borchers designs the “Love Collection” line, the proceeds of which go to charities benefiting impoverished children in Rwanda.
Borchers has been named one of the most 101 most influential people in Germany by Gala Magazine. Borchers owns a doberman pitbull hybrid named Rafferty.
In October 2014, Rafferty survived an attempt by unknown assailants to poison the dog. In February of that year Borchers was also arrested by mistake while traveling to London when he used an Idaho he had reported stolen after finding it lost.
Borchers’ family has a business empire consisting of supermarkets, timber, and real estate.
Borchers family lives quietly and is against any media reporting.
