There were some entertaining shows during this season’s Berlin Fashion Week. A few parties were worth a trek through the snow. And (as my sleek colleagues can vouch as witnesses) I gratefully enjoyed more than my fair share of champagne and free food at one afterparty. There was even a smattering of substantive looks and desirable garments at Bebelplatz and off-site. But only one show stood out as a solid and admirable collection: Michael Sontag was the true sleeper hit of the season. [more]
by Ana Finel Honigman —
ic! berlin designer Ralph Anderls lying naked, fettered and gauged on runway.
One of the things I love a bout the German language so much is that you can nominalize just about anything. Where other languages would require a full sentence, in German you can express a concept with one (very long) word. There is no direct English translation for “Ganzkörpereinsatz”, but paraphrased it would be something like [more]
by Hili Perlson —
We are not quite sure what the styles sported by about 90% of the guests of last night’s “Michalsky Style Nite” had to do with either “Style” or “Nite” (however, we did spot some traces of “Michalsky”), but as there were some exceptional appearances after all, and as our readers seem to enjoy clicking their way through people photos, and as sleek daily’s wonderful photographer Maxime Ballesteros can turn “style” into style, here you go: [more]
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While we already expressed our astonishment at the JOOP! show, we have to admit that from a backstage perspective the whole thing didn’t look too bad. Maybe we should have just stayed back there. Photo gallery: [more]
by sleek Team —
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Last night, Converse transformed an old derelict building into a creative playground, filling it with art and other manifestations of creativity, like people, music and drinks, to kick off its “You’re Here” event series which has been conceived to provoke “moments where vision meets action”. While in the beginning people seemed a bit hesitant to follow the invitation to paint on the walls, after a while they were most willing to forget about good manners and got the action thing going quite well.
by Tiphaine Shipman —
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In Jen Ray and Mathilde ter Heijne’s joint performance which took place at Georg Kolbe Museum on Monday night, everything revolved around money – a subject that never gets out of fashion. Five female performers orbited around an altar placed in the center, performing different actions reminiscent of archaic rituals while chanting “money grows, money flows”, or “what I want is mine!” in unison. The spell casters’ intense aura was underlined by their otherworldly costumes, including capes designed by Berlin-based designer Regina Tiedeken. (IR)
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Legendary eyewear label ic! berlin goes fashion, art and charity and launches the project “wc! berlin”. Based on the motto “we have everything and nothing at the same time”, ic! berlin wants to help some of those people that need [more]
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At their oversize show in the Hamburger Bahnhof museum for contemporary art, Boss Black went back to basics for Fall/Winter ’10. The look for men was aggressively nerdy – chunky black-framed glasses combined with super-defined shoulders to delineate a masculinity that [more]
by Sameer Reddy —
After causing something of a scene last year when (ab)using homeless people as models, Berlin Fashion Week’s enfant terrible Patrick Mohr was expected to shock again. With a little help from DJ Hell, Mohr didn’t fail to deliver: This time, he presented [more]
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Bei all der Beliebigkeit und Belanglosigkeit auf den Laufstegen freut man sich umso mehr über frisches Blut, das auch tatsächlich etwas zu zeigen hat. Das Designerduo Perret Schaad bewies gestern, dass die bereits gesammelte Arbeitserfahrung bei Givenchy Haute-Couture in Paris, Swash in London und Gaspard Yurkievich in Paris nicht von der Entwicklung einer eigenständigen Handschrift abgehalten hat: überraschende Ärmellösungen, intelligente Details und Nähte, interessante Stoffkombinationen, harmonische Farbpalette: Perret Schaad verstehen es, wie man eine Kollektion abwechslungsreich und dabei doch stimmig aufbaut. Für uns die positivste Überraschung der MBFWB. (JH)
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