Yes, Berlin Fashion Week is over, but we will keep sleek daily running for another couple of days, for the following reasons: a) as usual, we keep finding stuff that we somehow forgot to post earlier, b) a lot of people seem to like browsing through this blog, and c), and most importantly, we are working on the relaunch of our official sleek page which will go online one of these days.
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One of the best things about Berlin Fashion Week are all those small, intimate events held at showrooms in Mitte, all conveniently located within walking distance. This video features some of them: the presentation of a new collection at the AVR van reimersdahl showroom, Kostas Murkudis presenting his designs for Flip-Flop (a sequel to last summer’s collaboration) at his brother Andreas’s store, Vilde Svaner’s eco-conscious collection at the Eco-Fashion showroom, featuring drawings by Ulrike Theusner, and the opening of the Butterfly Soulfire shop.
by Alex Moebius —
Fette is a French artist and curator based in Berlin and Los Angeles. She edits The Flog (www.the-flog.com), a website covering the art scene wherever she resides. She also runs fette’s gallery, an independent space for contemporary art which started in her house in LA. Her endeavors have been featured in Art Review, Art Forum, and the Huffington Post, among others.
by sleek Team —
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 —
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]
by Maxime Ballesteros —
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]
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