The storytelling was on point in Abarna Kugathasan’s second show for her label Kitschy Couture. Last February, she showed off her extravagant pieces (mainly dresses at the time) in a magnificent Tamil wedding ceremony in which the bride married herself. “Now this season is a honeymoon collection—after marrying herself, the bride is going on a … Read more
So, uh, truth be told, I didn’t see the show for this Haderlump collection. But I saw the collection the following day, and chatted with the label’s creative director Johann Ehrhardt at the showroom for Berlin’s younger labels at the Chateau Royal hotel, more of which later. Here’s what happened. While my fellow showgoers at … Read more
Jörg Ehrlich and Otto Drögsler of Odeeh share a mindset more open than almost any other designers in Berlin. They do not follow trends, nor do they exclude the possibility of new ideas. Creative compromises and differing opinions yield positive results here, both behind the scenes and on the catwalk. Always in focus: the Odeeh … Read more
Don’t know how you did it, Allan Balletshofer, but you read my mind. Glancing down at the Balletshofer’s show notes while sitting waiting for his show to start amidst the ebony marbled grandeur of the Martin Gropius Bau museum, this caught my eye: “Upon arriving in a city, an individual adapts to its specific codes … Read more
We’re not in New York anymore, that’s obvious, though we are as sure as hell in Berlin. Specifically, an empty raw space located on Marlene Dietrich Platz—I am literally dying over the name of the street, it is so fabulous—that is being used for the spring 2025 show from Richert Beil’s Jale Richert and Michele … Read more
Sitting in the drizzle waiting for Avenir to start, I watched a cool young woman walking around just outside the show’s open-air venue, thinking that with her mass of dark curls and coolly weathered purple leather coat she was bound to be in the runway lineup. Avenir designer Sophie Claussen had chosen to show on … Read more
Marie Lueder wanted us to experience her show with all our senses, so she stimulated not only our eyes and ears, but even our olfactory nerves with a performance by a young Lueder-dressed vape artist, who blew cotton candy smelling smoke rings in Berlin’s Tempodrom, a location, that was created in the 1980s as a … Read more
Fuck, I feel old. So, so old. I am standing amidst a heaving, ebullient, and very up-for-it crowd of people on the ramp going down into the loading bay of the Tempodrom performance center in Berlin. We are waiting to gain entry to the venue for Shayne Oliver’s Anonymous Club show. It’s safe to say … Read more
It seems that I am not the only Berlin fashion week novice this season. So too, well kind of, are Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Isik of GmbH. I know, I know, what a crazy thing to say. GmbH has become synonymous with—kickstarted, in fact—the whole idea that Berlin is a hotbed of wildly creative … Read more
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