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
For their latest resort collection, duo Mark Badgley and James Mischka drew design inspiration from a recent trip to Santa Barbara. “We were visiting family there, and we were reminded of how much we love it,” Mischka said. Turns out, the California town has a glamorous Hollywood past—and the duo wanted to capture that chic … 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
It’s not every day that an edition of Vogue launches its own fashion fund. Yet today Kerstin Weng, head of editorial content for Vogue Germany, took to the floor of the James Simon Galerie in Berlin to announce the seven inaugural finalists of this first year of the FCG/Vogue Fashion Fund. They would be: Kasia … Read more
“I believe in living with authenticity—free from validation and permission of absurd conservatism and societal norms.” Marc Jacobs said he was after “joy, period” at his show tonight. It lasted all of six minutes—a short, sharp shock—but it made a big, big impression. I saw Marilyn Monroe in her iconic subway grate dress from The … 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
Amid the swirl of the Paris men’s, couture, and jewelry presentations, Tove quietly slipped into the French capital, bringing with it an oasis of calm—which is exactly how a burgeoning base considers the London-based brand founded five years ago by two Topshop alums, Holly Wright and Camille Perry. No matter their vocation, the brand’s fans … Read more
