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 —
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This video is the last post on the Michalsky StyleNite, promised, but we don’t want to withold the footage of that event’s highlight from you: the human discoball that opened the Kaviar Gauche show.
by Fette Sans —
For anyone who finds it tedious to trek out to the same staid venues season after season for show after show, Friday’s Style Nite at the Friedrichstadtpalast theater provided an entirely different kind of experience, along the lines of a fashion cabaret. But all the musical acts, open bars and general extravagance aside, the fashion [more]
by Sameer Reddy —
Michael Michalsky is not Berlin’s best designer. Seeing his clothes alone in the cold light of reality, away from the nightlights where they pop, can be underwhelming. Yet Michalsky is unquestionably the city’s premiere showman, [more]
by Ana Finel Honigman —
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 —
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Die Flamingos, designers Doreen Schultz and Clara Leskover of c.neeon conjured up a magnificent garden of fantastical flora and fauna with [more]
by Hili Perlson —
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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