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CLARA COLETTE MIRAMON
Clara Colette Miramon’s SS26 collection Care stages a deeply felt meditation on the unseen labor that holds our world together presented with elegant restraint and structural precision. Shown outdoors on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße in front of the Volksbühne, the performance moves like a soft protest: hospital beds, Pilates reformers, and fabric-strewn catwalk transforming the street into a site of both vulnerability and resilience. Miramon draws from the silhouette of the 1960s nurse, expanding it into a language of laced spines, ruched overflows, and corseted strength; a femininity that refuses containment. In two acts, Care shifts from caregiving to self-care, from emotional endurance to physical empowerment, culminating in a sculptural wedding dress built on a scoliosis brace. It’s a reclamation of care as structure, as visibility, as radical tenderness.
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MILK OF LIME
With CHIME, Milk of Lime’s third runway collection, the Belgo-German duo crafts a dreamscape of rural memory and folkloric edge. Silver bells worn like daisy chains or dripping from knotted tops punctuate a lineup of elongated silhouettes, raw finishes, and tailored softness. Dark, mossy tones meet transparent silks, while flower prints fade like heirlooms, quietly haunted by the threat of poisonous species beneath their beauty. Accessories echo this duality: embossed bird rings, wet-look leather bags, and studded anagrams by poet Eva Weinkötz ground the collection in quiet rebellion. It’s a poetic rural punk rooted in the designers’ countryside life, and chiming softly with intimacy, danger, and devotion to craft.
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LUEDER
With SLⱯY, LUEDER stages a fashion ritual where myth becomes mirror. Inspired by the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the collection recasts old symbols into modern resistance, it is about power, inheritance, and the slow work of becoming. Sculptural shoulders meet soft tailoring, garments shift between armour and offering, while distressed textures and talismanic details speak of battles fought inwardly. Collaborations with artists and artisans deepen the narrative, with custom UGGs and hand-finished fabrics layering the myth in material. SLⱯY doesn’t declare a victor, but asks: what are we really fighting, and who do we become in the process?
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DAVID KOMA
With I LOVE DAVID, David Koma crafts a menswear collection that’s both cheeky and self-aware. It is a tribute to the many faces of masculinity. Drawing from three Davids: Beckham, Michelangelo’s statue, and the designer himself, the collection moves between idol and individual, persona and self. Low-slung denim and paparazzi-era outerwear nod to celebrity bravado, while sculptural draping and lace aprons bring softness and introspection. Koma’s signatures like garter straps, crystal embellishments, and sequined tailoring reappear with bolder flair, grounded by floral motifs turned into couture moments. Presented at Palais am Funkturm, I LOVE DAVID is a reflection on how modern manhood is styled, staged, and still in motion.
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OTTOLINGER
The day’s final show may have started late, but it hit hard, slicing through the Berlin heat with a pounding bassline as Sandstorm by Darude filled the Palais am Funkturm, quickly followed by Lady Gaga’s Scheiße. The atmosphere shifted instantly, transforming the runway into an electric celebration. Ottolinger’s Berlin debut felt less like a traditional show and more like a charged party, with Kim Petras leading the cast in a perfect homage to the brand’s fearless spirit. The lineup opened with wedge heels and signature Ottolinger cutouts, evolving into sleek, unapologetic latex silhouettes that were sharp and effortlessly cool. The collection embodied the essence of the cooler older sister: unapologetic, impulsive, and always a few steps ahead of the game.
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SF1OG
SF1OG’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection unfolds like a fever dream with garments being soft, volatile, and strangely precise. Set inside a suspended forest on a Berlin construction site, the show mirrors the collection’s emotional core: romance unraveled by obsession and time. Rosa Dahl draws from antique costume and indie subcultures to sculpt silhouettes that feel both undone and exacting, stitched with longing and decay. Materials hum with texture and are repurposed silks, sequins, and leathers that flicker like memory. It’s a love story, but one told through clenched teeth, where beauty blooms just as it breaks.
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GMBH
For this season, GmbH has grappled with the question of what it means to create while the world is at war, how to be imaginative when everything around you is on fire. The collection becomes a meditation on memory, reaching back into the haze of childhood, where emotions blur the line between the real and the imagined. White tie attire is dismantled and reassembled, it is distorted, exaggerated, out of proportion. In a gesture both provocative and symbolic, entire tops are constructed from money bills, questioning value, excess, and the fragility of systems we once trusted.
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IOANNES
This Berlin Fashion Week marked the debut show of IOANNES. IOANNES’ FW25 collection, Better Grow Thorns Than Thicker Skin, is a whispered defiance. Designer Johannes Boehl-Cronau rejects the logic of hardening, offering softness as strength, silhouette as self-confrontation. The garments unfold in a dialogue between drape and edge: sheer meshes and vegetable-dyed ruffles brush against raw hems and sculptural outerwear, each piece a study in tension and grace. A palette of blush tones, moody olives, and black grounds the collection in both fragility and force. The collection is a dare to show up, strange and soft, and take up space without armor.