Photo © Maxime Ballesteros
Five days, six studios, one tunnel, a handful of ghosts, three cities and hundreds of kilometers later our urge to hit the road came pretty close to being satisfied – thankfully there was still a long stretch left before we had to park our Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 in Berlin and call it a day. We made another good stop before we headed onto the highway: emerging through the Eurotunnel onto French soil we decided to hit the sandy beach of Calais. We let our feet make acquaintance with the freezing Atlantic before we headed to the car that would take us home.
In collaboration with mb! Magazine we headed out to three cities where we felt sure we would find the youngest, newest and most exciting fashion talents around: we discovered that Amsterdam offers so much more than its tourist-attracting cliché: forward-thinking fashion like Anne van den Boogaard’s tongue-in-cheek, cheerleader anarchism and Merel van Glabbeek’s modern interpretation of Grecian fashion values. In Antwerp Pierre Renaux and Wim Bruynooghe proved their cities’ reputation as Europe’s tiny fashion capital right as both their graduate collections were filled with innovation and technical panache. In London the knit-obsessed Jaimee McKenna and boundary-blurring Ana Rajcevic showed that London still is the place where young designers can go crazy with their creative vision. Though we came back with plenty to show for, we still have more questions we want answered and more we want to discover – thankfully The Search Part III is just around the corner. Watch this space for more information.
Read more about Sleek’s trip from Berlin to London via Amsterdam and Antwerp in the Autumn issue of Sleek, publishing this month. Find out more information on The Search at mb! by Mercedes-Benz.