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Formerly Fashionalyst. Restlessly, seeking the experience of true art and fashion, taking a look behind the curtains while maintaining the performative appearance. The impressions of a wanderer through virtual internet and physical urban metropolis life. Resting to observe in order to anticipate innovation.
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Exchange programmes are offered plenty. I did one as a student (pupil) and went to the States during High School. We like to think we were the
However LINIST exchanges the upcoming designers between Berlin and Istanbul. A selection of Berlin based designers therefore is traveling to Istanbul Fashion Week.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2011 -from February 2nd to 6th - published its preliminary schedule online (link). Definitely a great advantage is that shows of other fairs like VISION & Terminal2 and CIFF & CIFF kids are included in the schedule. Press, buyers, others interested and the fashion crowd is served much better while being less urged to organize or decide in favor of one or another event, like in Berlin.
Don’t miss Henrik Vibskov, Stine Goya, Spon Diogo, bARBARA i gONGINI and keep a wake eye on Ivan Grundahl and Nom de Plume.
Image (c) CPH Fashion Week
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin in January hosting their best local designers KAVIAR GAUCHE, Kilian Kerner, Lala Berlin, and Munich based Marcel Ostertag, Mongrels in Common, Anja Gockel, Blacky Dress, Odeeh, Perret Schaad, designer for tomorrows winner Parsival Cserer, and the traditional enfant terrible Patrick Mohr.
HUGO used to show in Paris, under Eyan Allans creative direction also presenting in Berlin, even looking for catwalk reporters.
ESCADA SPORT is also new to the schedule, marking the return of the German fashion house to the scene. Why Sport and not the main line is a mystery to many.
The list of international labels is speaks for Berlins ambition to developing itself to the northern European hub of concept fashion, as long as the newly showing designers present their full collections and not a partial preview like Stine Goya in January 2010. Bllack Noir, and the three Swedish designers Camilla Norrback, Diana Orving and Ida Sjöstedt represent the strong Scandinavian influence on international fashion.
Allude, C’est tout, David Tomaszewski, .DIMITRI, Eva & Bernard, Lever Couture, Maicco, Puma & Sakina M’SA. The opening show is in the honor of A.F. Vandevorst.
HUGO, more precisely Eyan Allen, creative director, invites you to be a fashion show reporter! Who of you love social media, are a creative and talented photographer or video-maker or have your own blog and fit into the HUGO fashion world? If you think “that’s me!” and would love to document everything around the catwalk show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Berlin, this is your chance!
Apply to be one of the five chosen reporters!
HUGO will fly you in, care for your accommodation and let you co-create the experience for a curious audience of thousands if not millions of people.
The branded competition runs on facebook, YouTube and Twitter, proving that Hugo Boss is taking the digital channels seriously. I am curious what the broadcasting concept includes, as Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton (among others) have already set new standards when it comes to hosting digital natives in real time, next to us traditional fashion show attendees. We might be asking for a more digital experience including 360-degree access that those virtual guests have.
Find more info, regulations and requirements at the HUGO Website!
image credits (c) HUGO
My personal highlight of this Berlin fashion week was meeting ISSEVER BAHRI. The designer duo Derya Issever and Cimen Bahri are in my eyes some of the most talented Berlin has to offer these days. The two understood that being from Berlin is not about being loud and hip, it is about utilizing the creative energy and skilled crafts(wo)manship which are around. The collection speaks for itself.
The collection consists of elegant and modern silk pieces and fine leather knitwear. Indeed, knitwear made out of leather. Serious talent and skill are united with the eyes for understated luxury.
Derya Issever participated last year already at Fashion Weeks dft - designer for tomorrow supported by Peek & Cloppenburg. This year, the duo won the prestigious Young Designers Award of Premium Exhibitions in the womenswear S/S2011 category.
Further invitations were received by the two. I am confident: Berlin is a starting point and the strong base.
Risto is Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin last but certainly not least show. A mysterious floral theme in black, white and grays printed onto silk, combined with artisanal knit. A universal summer collection, transparent, playing around the female figure. No great risks taken but no mistakes made either.
An invitation to Hugo Boss is irresistible. One of the biggest events of Berlin Fashion Week was undoubtedly the German prime fashion house. Last year named most glamorous fashion house, the Metzingen based label did not spare any effort.
Probably the biggest delay of this July’s Fashion Week was caused by the probably largest number of celebrities and personalities attending the show and dinner party hosted in Berlin Kreuzberg.
Once started, the presented Boss Black collection for Spring/Summer 2011 managed to fulfill expectations to wearability, however many pieces surprised with a both elegant and tricky twist. Where the foundation were classic and modern elegant silhouettes, the creative duo behind the collection created a variety of themes from azure and royal blue business day outfits, more pastel toned leisure safari looks and glamorous gray and black evening wear. Trends for 2011 are obviously short and long dresses, shorts and soft fabrics; Silk, linen and mercerized cottons. Extra effects are added by sequined applications for women and accompanied by sharp silhouettes and clean looks for men.
The variety within this collection is as wide as the horizon of the cosmopolitan individual meant to be wearing it. Although the German actors and musicians elite attended (besides some athletes), one would wonder why Boss has not taken over Hollywood gala wardrobes.
The guests were invited to a delicious dinner party following the catwalk show. Blending flavors just like during the show, various courses of antipasti, pasta and later pizza and deserts pleased ones appetite and made up for the extraordinary waiting time before the show.
