It flutters and it shines. Staging seemed to be everything!

words by Linda Charlotte Ehrl and Nele Schrinner

Fashion for summer millenium ten was forecasted with sand, nude, rosé, black, silver, gold, bibs, floor-lenght dresses, still overalls- short or long, light fabrics, transparency but also sporty flowery happy moods… tie-dye, and again and again inspirations of the glamourous discobowl…

Germanys next topmodels and established topmodel Toni Garrn on stage where other big names like Luca Gajdus and Julia Stegner preferred to enjoy the first row like a lot more national and international celebs did this year.

DIARY

Fashionweek Berlin started for us on the evening of tuesday the 30th of june. Bread& Butter opened their show like always on the evening before with a big concert of an internationally known artist, this time Mando Diao.

We tried to enter the concert but were a bit too late, so we had to wait outside with a lot of other guests. Then it started raining cats and dogs and everybody got totally wet and pissed. Afterwards people told us it was a great concert and Mando Diao did an amazing  show like always, like we know it from swedish musicians.

So we rushed all wet to projekt galerie at „Hof96“ at Torstrasse. They were anouncing a Designer Sale including pieces of New H Denim by Wendy & Jim, Sopopular, Penkov, Macqua and others. I fell in love with a dress of Seelenkeid, so fragile and beautiful, but the clothes still got a prideful prize.. totally fair though…  In the next room there was the exhibition of the new Wendy& Jim men’s underwear coop with DJ Hell. Lukas Gansterer photographed their line in a playful clowny- sexy, porno attitude together with the lovely new collection of New H Denim, which shows polkadotted washed jeans and tops.

photos Lukas Gansterer

As we know project galleries and Hof96 there was a super edgy house style music performance of ! The prince in a golden Mc Hammer pants and a sexy performance of Sunday Love a short hair blond girl with black taped nipples. People asked me while fashionweek if there is anything special, progressive fashionable about the Berlin Fashion Week…. go to projekt galerie!

Wednesday morning fashion week at Bebelplatz started with the show of Schumacher, who showed us from beginning on the mood of this season which we found again in a lot of other collections: nude, sand, some pink, silvery, silky and golden glittery materials and light floating fabrics. At Dorothee Schumacher we saw the use of more fabricmaterial for bows on waists and for long trains flowing with dresses for the first time and saw it again later in other collections. Transparent, sexy and quiet „openhearted“. Casual but elegant dresses, overalls, skirts and blouses for leisure time and business.

photo “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

The dessert and its different forms of appearance according to the cycle of sun have been the inspiration of Marcel Ostertag for summer 2010. In conformity with this the show started also with nude and sand colours and developed integrating dim blue and grey in floral and circular prints and batik effects on silk and satin to be finished in black with shimmering stone applications. Typical for Ostertag are geometric forms build by different parts of materials integrating leather, fur and wool.
Dresses, pants and overalls ranged from short to footlenght. Big wooden and metal necklaces accessorized.
Outstanding looks were the new definition of a twin set of a dark blue oversized, cuffed satin jacket and a mini underneath and the final jacket of big horizontal stone stripes in rainbow colours on black, that somehow reminded more of Michael Jackson then the dessert.
The sound design was exotic and thrilling with the right portion of bass drive.
But this collection was not as strong as we expected.

Marc and me rushed to the shuttle who took us to the Ellington Hotel in Westberlin where the Lac et Mel show was waiting for us! While Nele stayed at the fashion tent so we didn’t miss even one of the coinciding shows. The Lac et Mel collection was something between 70’s hippy overalls and some lily of the valley skirts,  highlightening the hips. The material mix didn’t really make a clear line for the whole collection. The black model in a checkered dress added some african colonian time. Lilac, peach, red-orange, green, violet, rosé, yellow, transparent, a blue women’s suit, a noble dark red long cocktail dress. The designer concentrated on iridecent silk and ecological special fabrics which you can only find in France.

photo Marc Schuhmann

While we were still on our way back, Nele saw the Lena Hoschek show:

The Austrian designer invited, with an airplane ticket, to a trip from Berlin 2009 to Honolulu 1954. Floral necklaces, rippling music and Suzy Menkes in the first row brought me in the right mood: welcome to fantasy island.

The presentation kept the promise: A full program of 50ies silhouettes from curvy shapes over straight shirt-dresses till Rock´n´Roll petticoats. Rich fabrics and prints like chequered, floral, dots, completed with the right make up as eyeliner, red lips and nails and accessories as lady pumps, sunglasses, small bags and flowers in their hair.

Interesting interpretations were skirts and blouses made of a bast-like material in crude and the hoola inspired skirts and dresses that jiggle so nice while walking. Not to forget the incredible print on black background of flower laces and the face of Elvis with red lips on his cheek, of course!

photo “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Afterwards Black Coffee and Ramirez presented by Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week were the program. Pablo Ramirez awarded at Fashion Edition Buenos Aires 2008 was first. He invited us to be guest at a very intimate summer funeral ceremony. Of course mostly black with some grey and white. The tune was sedate and calm. One tight fully black floor-lenghted dress of silk kind with a big transparent a-lined gown. Women’s suits with wide marlene pants, overalls with a blazerkind of decoltée. One black bodysuit under a grey coat. Details were black bows and bowties on necks and waists and single collars around their necks. Girls with accurate dark hair wigs and a rose on their foreheads hairline, looking a bit mountaineer. Ramirez’ men were a bit stiff, in very! tight and maybe just too small? suits so that they could hardly walk and their short hair in tight nets. Maybe it was another effect to make the whole moment even more staid… but it seamed a bit strange. But Linda liked the mood very much and reminded her on „the piano“.

photo Marc Schuhmann

Black Coffee, winner of the Mercedes-Benz South Africa best national designer Award 09 followed. Queens of savannah, pharaohs’ serail, shoulders accented with extra layers of geometrical forms and lamellaes like futuristic maharajas, some ethnic details. The ladies faces were slightly hidden under transparent fabrics, looked like they should protect them from wind, sand and bees. Other headpieces had ethnic inspirations or big safari hats with beenets. We could follow a methamorphosis on the catwalk. Dresses were of two layers, while the tighter inner layer stayed in place but the outer layers with their strips and voluminous fabrics were wrapped asymetrically around the body and shoulders. In the middle of the catwalk other models or a model itself changed the wrapped layers into another form. For us strange combinations strong colours and the wrapping- effect reminded on the designers’ african roots. It was a very fresh and innovative collection and presentation though quiet conceptional.

photo Marc Schuhmann

In between Firma showed their new Gropius bag, of robust but soft horseleather in their store on Mulackstrasse. The multifunctional bag is dedicated to the 90s birthday of Bauhaus. Through different zippers the laptop bag is turnable into a bigger weekender. The designers interpreted the bauhaus description of radical avantgarde and timeless classic for their own design.

photo Martin Mai

Then Silk Relations presented the new Scholl footwear collection on the roof top of the river located Radialsystem. It’s always a big question how to present shoes in the way they deserve it without any distraction. I think they did it very well. It was a catwalk only showing the beautiful part of a womens leg from toe to knee. Hello Coco, we like knees….

The professional dancers wore one single piece of the collection on each foot and moved, walked and lifted their legs like they were able to. The colourrange was summerlike in yellow, pink, white, petrol and light brown. Wedges and robust heels. Again we were surprised of the modern and fashionable style of Scholl Footwear without loosing their roots of their comfortable and footloving ideas.

photo Marc Schuhmann

At 6pm it was Patrick Mohr’s first own show showing at Berlin Fashion Week. Everybody who knows Patrick Mohr was very excited what he will show. The others heard already that this won’t be a normal boring fashion show. The invitation said: „ Is the rhomboid ragpicker homeless?“. We already waited for a controversity of society. He sent real homeless people with different ages on the catwalk. It seemed a bit like a sect cult with white earthcolour on their faces always showing this mystical triangle on the forehead or on clothes and also one outfit in a tapered cape looking a bit like the Ku-Klux Klan. We didn’t get any answers explaining the triangle which he included already in former collections. Is it something political or even religious? Or just something more for people to discuss about.  They walked as if they are in trance or on drugs lead by an invisible hand like on a gathering at a hippie or trance festival.

photo Marc Schuhmann

Patrick showed clothes or let’s say fabrics far from the original body shapes inspired by diseases? Big potatoe sacks with bumps from the pest. In bodys and jackets with transparent overlayers he hided geometric toys to unform the body. In between „normal models“ wore denim pants in fresh colours with little ribbons on seams and white t-shirts maybe to show just some wearable stuff..? With some of the outfits if they were not barefoot they wore big white sprayed high-top sneakers some with white knee socks, while leather shoes and boots of his new shoe line in collaboration with Lena Krampf have been exhibited on platforms in the middle of the catwalk consisting of black plastic. There was no other show that was in such controversial discussions as Mr. Mohrs zombie show, the comments ranged from well done and transversal over different and shocking until failed and distasteful. I know there were some very interesting pieces within the rags but I can’t remember them cause every outfit was a kind of special shocker itself. I will have a another second view on them at his showroom.

At 7pm the Berlin label Franzius showed a retrospective on their last collections since f/w 06/07 in the Konk store. It was a journey through seasons. You could see that Stephanie Franzius has a weakness for geometric forms, social or family integration and plays with ice, glass and light which is defining colours and edges on them. The most beautiful piece for us was the multicoloured dress in the window which was the only piece shown of the new summer collection. Franzius’ style is perfect for Berlin, as in this city you never know how long you will wear your outfit which you put on in the morning, and where you end up in the night… most of her pieces are wearable for every situation.

At the Gant cocktail @ Hotel Drôme delicious canapés and kir champagne brought us in the right mood for the show.

The Gant show was totally Gant. Two stripes for sportswear, muscleboys in tight bathing and surf pants, girls in sporty hot pants with a 80s cocktail blazer and black leather hot pants. Fresh sporty colours, like orange, turquoise, pastels, flowery surf prints, but also strong red, black and white. Beautiful: a short overall of black and white sequins and a mirror bowl short ladies suit. Tie-dye next to icecream coloured poloshirts. A big reptil leather bag. White Volant and black plissé dresses, a very short brocade dress, destroyed jeans with rhinestones. Miami White’s light blue blazer with white cotton pants and fine striped mens suit. Not the most innovative but very strong show and we are very happy that this successful and big sportswear name was showing at our Berlin Fashion Week!

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Unfortunately we didn´t make it to the video presentation “Underneath From Above” by Butterfly Soulfire @ Konk store.

You can watch it here.

Escada lightened up the beautiful Bode Museum to pink, which matched idyllically with the clouds over the river Spree that evening. Under the title “A View on Fashion 1978-2009″ the brand, named after a racehorse, displayed a profile of their collections since their founding in Munich, Germany in 1978. The party was crowded and as I said already: quite pink. Between the designs displayed on mannequins all over the place we enjoy fine cuisine and lots of Moët Chandon rosé while sweat pearls run under our cocktail dresses. The after party at Bar Tausend offers more pearls and rosé. A grandiose venue for a brand that is fighting for its existence.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

The only one who could manage to see the UDK - ”University of Fine Arts” fashion show was our photographer Marc Schuhmann. So we can only show some nice photos which made us even more sad that we couldn’t go. It’s always very intersting to see what the fashion design students of UDK invent and design. It’s still a lot of freedom and curiosity in their mind before they get in touch with the big fashion machinery.

photos Marc Schuhmann

On thursday Nele and me decided to split cause the offer of fashion excitment was just too much to do it all together. So Nele went to Bread& Butter and I went with Marc to see the fashion shows. On Friday we switched.

First we saw the Eastpak show, a label that you normally combine not immediately with the catwalk. But they  made a very energetic show again this season. Hip hop, cool moves under crazy lights. Their models were casted teenagers out of the streets of the critically underpriviledged sections of Berlin. Cool kids and street dancers. They had visibly fun on the catwalk. The collection was showing eastpaks indestructible rucksacks and streetwear clothes. Jackets to turn from inside to outside, jeans with lower pockets, and all in funky and fresh colours. A collection that seemed to be chosen after the models, each outfit seemed to underline the personal character of the performer. Avery honest and real energy.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Then Mongrels in Common –  Ingenius cutted fronts or backs and bodies, short blazers, tight blouses of fine fabrics with short collars, snakeprinted tight hippants, tight corsetts, gathers and draperies. Mostly sand and black. Satin, leather, reptil, light fabrics, transparency and of course ziggy stardust disco mirror bowl fabrics. Once the black corsett slipped down I thought that looked really interesting, but when the girl came back for the final it was in its place.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

At 3 pm Frida Weyer invited us to a very intimate show and acrobatic performance in the chameleon varieté. When all guests were seated around the little tables the show began with a melancholic chant accompanied by the piano while a paperboy dressed acrobat danced on a wing in the middle of the room some meters above the catwalk. After a big applause the music changed to faster techno music to break with the sweet and lovely icecream coloured moods that followed. The girls seemed to have just come out of a miss contest with all there details of tull orders, decorations and draperies on decolteés and hips. All pastells, turquoise, rosé, off-white, yellowish for cocktail dresses with rosé edging, creped dresses. A bit of Charlston a bit of French Riviera ladies with a tight elegant twirled knotted hair… But even here we found an outfit inspired by THE mirror ball. For me the best was the last dress, a very short sexy and coquettish weddingdress, pushed up with a crinoline, wiggeling with the girls’ motions.

photos Marc Schuhmann

When I entered the Lala Berlin show I first saw Suzy Menkes.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

The first row was full of German celebs, Heike Makatsch next to Christiane Arp, Jessica Schwarz, Jana Palaske, Hausmarke, and many more. The show began with light and soft gold tones, gold applications, golden pleated front trousers, a long breathtaking dress with an ancient greek touch. Transparent tops which were made to fall off the nipples very summerly light and openhearted. Lalas famous fine illustrated prints on tops and cummerbunds. Of course some knitwear not to forget the labels roots, light knitted pullovers and big meshes and knitwear with golden pyramide applications.

photos Marc Schuhmann

Afterwards Agentur V presented a beautiful very intimate catwalk of Vladimir Karaleev’s „Untitled Structures“. The presentation was in the very clean and empty white walls of Coma Gallery. The models walked sedately to the room filling sounds of a woman playing the cello. The press text says that „the collection offers geometric details that form a contrast to randomly emerging elements which appear to be arranged in chaotic order. Untitled Structures focuses on formal opposites and haptic attraction.“ Actually that describes already everything. Drapes of silk dresses, open hems, paperlike fabrics formed into a rucksack. Light chiffons, light and dark grey, white, sand, bright blue, petrol and black. Everything looks like it’s just built some minutes ago directly on the model. Forms that though are contra the body still seem to merge organically. The shoes were mostly plateau-wedge kind of clogs, also with drapes of material applicated. Light simple cutted dresses of flowing fine fabrics seem to be sewed and cut directly on the girl.

photos Marc Schuhmann

Vladimirs calm and inspiring presentation was still in our minds when we rushed back to the fashion tent where Strenesse Blue gave us back some energie with rock ‘n roll and big cowboy hats. Songs of the good old country stars accompanied the show, under others Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton with Jolene. But also the collection didn’t show very new ideas, everything was already kind of there for years. Seems like a good concept, known and prooved as good. The boyfriend jeans, a black casual wide leather dress and pants, an asymetric flashy orange bathing suit with lucent stripes. White, sand, strong red, leopard tie-dye optic, charcoal black, fine blue and white stripes for blazers, hole-rivets on tops, golden zippers, a red casual cotton overall. One highlight though was the black girl with the black silk top and black hotpants with pearl applications on it’s front!

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

photos Marc Schuhmann

Then we left the tent behind us and drove to the Gallery “Studio For The Arts” at Straußberger Platz, where Büro New York founded by Alexander Wiederin, had his exhibition. The exhibition is showing a selection of Alex’s art direction work in Magazines like Another Magazine, TEN Magazine, Vogue Hommes International, Tempo etc., his work with the most important photographers, models, brands and a lot of beautiful people. But also showing commercials, campagnes and some work of his love to typefaces, letters in full alphabeths which he was drawing himself. The walls of the gallery were full of published single pages very carefully researched, in the middle room was a giant soup plate with gummy letters. The audience were a fine selection of national and international fashion and magazine crowd enjoying the late blue hour with some glasses and smalltalk.

Afterwards we all got some shuttles together and rushed to the Boss Orange show which was far away in some empty storage building in Treptow. Wow I got out on the red carpet, but no photographer in sight.. hmm.. Three guys dressed in paperboy style were playing music with their contrabass and violine on the rooftop of a bully van. Very nice and decent but with no connection to the rest. We entered the storage and were warmly welcomed with tiny plates of yummy food. So good. The show place had a huge catwalk, at the very end there was a giant Blade Runner plane propellor which started turning when the techno beats raised the roof. The collection was very commercial. Well, a Parka, white casual cotton suit, big parachute style jacket, destroyed jeans, a tie-dye casual skirt combined with a black leather jacket. Tees with miami prints, one „Orange is the new cool!“ print looked good on a red haired girl. Grey and white striped straight cut jeans, light tops, hippie dresses. Neon pink leather, jeans overalls for women and men, silver high heels. Lightblue, rosé, sand, vanille, and also here THE disco bowl: a floor lenght A-line mirror skirt and as a tribute to the king the final was accompanied by Michael Jackson. Afterwards we had an amazing barbeque in the backyard with several different grills and bars with fire places and music. A very nice evening under a crowd full of national and international celebs which were flewn in, like Adrian Brody, running away from paparazzis.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

While Nele was spending the day starting at Bread&Butter: Besides visiting stands I saw the show of the Dutch denim brand G-Star:  The first part of the presentation varied bluntly from the last few seasons: models showing tailored black and white items sedately walking to the life piano music of two ladies flanking the catwalk.

The clothes changed into a college and Mardi Gras like uniform with knee high boots made of leather looking like rubber boots. Without a doubt the most interesting item of the collection. Female lips were coloured in a beautiful orange while male lips were crowned with moustaches. All the sudden very white light blizzards accompanied by loud music shocked my senses and the idea of an epeleptic attack risk rushed my mind. Model formations running over the catwalk while managing a perfect choreography: G-Star notorious.

After finishing the B&B day I was keen to see the new collection of Insight, an Australian street wear brand. They displayed their new collection at the A-Wear shop at Kastanienallee. I had a quick overview and especially liked some funky colourful bikinis and a Mens short with horse print. Outside a band was playing and I had a welcome break.

Then I headed to DC4 store where Wad & Evisu showed the result of ten Berliners creating limited edition pieces out of Evisu denim. I liked best the carrots, the gun and the bicycle saddle casing. The sudden downfall detained me from trying the sushi and drinks but guided me into the store where I met Gaël from Visionsonore in an extraordinary silvery super hero outfit passing images.

We didn’t manage to see the Michael Sontag show but Suzy Menkes did and wrote in her “Berlin Fashion Week Shows a Raw Energy”article for New York Times the following:

A standout show came from Michael Sontag, last season’s winner of the Designer for Tomorrow award, sponsored by the Peek & Cloppenburg store in Düsseldorf. Mr. Sontag’s liquid silhouettes and asymmetric cuts, which the designer called “giving body space,” marked him as a designer to watch — not least for his palette of colors from fresh green to buttercup yellow.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Homemade Breakfast was the motto of René Lezards brunch. In a wide apartment food corners alternated with open cupboards of rustic country style that domiciled thematic colour worlds for the collection pieces.

At midday Penkov let fine fabrics float over corsages and chain structures in colours as nude, rose, black and white. In some pieces the light fabrics were draped. And close to the final dresses became more rigid and the structure enhances volume on certain parts of the body. The Greek heroine met Madonna.
Beautiful grey and pink heels, I loved the ones with a structure (metal or fabric, I couldn t realize) bowing over the instep.

photos Marc Schuhmann

Kilian Kerner again started off with life music. A curly head woman sang accompanied by synthesizer and bass.
The first look of his diary records was a beige satin overall that could be the continuation of last seasons star item the rocky-balboa robe. A Mao like suit for Man follows, then several pieces with a satin structure clinging the body and a loose, flounce-like, part on top. Pieces and details made of silver and gold lame. Chains, metal buttons and metal zips. Black shows texture created by different fabrics, matt, shining, translucency. Some white.
Mens trousers kept the ultra slim line, volume for shoulders. I especially like the trousers with zips on both sides and an extra long, tailored jacket with metal zips. Also Kerner shows skin: Men and Women without shirts or tops underneath.
Seams sculpture cloth(?)  for men and women around their body until a certain point wherefrom full volume floats. All in all feels like a mix between again Greek and futuristic elements on models with a fuzzy parting of hair.
New is the leather bag and belt line of Kerner & Bruhn.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Then Nele went to the 1st GREENshowroom which was hosted in some rooms of the luxury Hotel Adlon next to the Brandenburger Gate showing sustainable cloth and accessories.

I liked the showroom itself. The idea of founders Magdalena Schaffrin and Jana Keller showing their slow fashion annual “collection of hope” was quite different. In the winter garden a couple interacted in and with the clothings and some of the sponsor products in a modern dance accompanied by a harp. The presentation was quite long and unfortunately part of the audience did not stay until its end.

photos Marc Schuhmann

Smeilinener showed big hearts and flamingos figuratively and in patterns. Satin overalls and cat suits, scarves as tops, ribbons all over, forming laces and exaggerated volumes all multicoloured and in normally forbidden combinations. The final piece is a bright cape loaded with embroideries. The cloth together with the life performance of the completely black dressed band Vive La Fête made a perfect electro circus.

photos Marc Schuhmann

Agentur V presented the launch of the new “I love you magazine – my printed Blog” at Straußberger Platz. Published by the Berlin photographer Marcus Gaab and his better half Christiane Bördner. The magazine in newspaper format is a fine selection of intimate content about love in all its facets. Some appropriate self characterizations are: high fashion, cutting edge photography, innovative styling, impeccable design, hedonistic, positive and sexy, naive yet intelligent.
It was a familiar get together under sunset.

The need of the photographers getting their shot of local celebrities attending Guido Maria Kretschmer made the time until the show began quite long. A Latin beauty opened and closed the presentation of an extensive collection that started with sailor style mixed with great oversized horse race course hats. Lots of stripes, more sporadic uni and dots in mainly off white and royal blue as well as some turquoise and beige. Satin and shiny silk dominated. Swim couture for the next Sylt vacations followed, one male model in company of an Afghan greyhound. A jacquard Mens suit and flowery red carpet robes in rich fabrics and decorations sounded the bell for the grand final: an ultra tight, long dress of black sequins. A show of beautiful and very well made cloth, even though not exactly my personal style, but which I would have enjoyed the double if the audience and especially my seat neighbours would have been a bit less exaggerated in their behaviour.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

I was already quite tired when I arrived to Michalsky at the world’s biggest stage theatre Friedrichstadt Palast. The show began late, hardly surprising as long drinks where waiting for the audience in the lounge.
The staging was amazing: urban skyscrapers scenery made of newspaper like material flanked the catwalk built over an artificial lake with a half sunken car and bottle. The fashion was better than expected, I really liked the dots, layered dresses and nude gala dresses for women, volume on shoulders and a light denim suit for men. Some of the styling was quite last season as for example worn hoods and latex leggings. Michalsky himself winked friendly to the audience out of his model espalier.
I left the after party quite soon to meet the Freestyle Team for Italian dinner.

On saturday we were exhausted from the fashion story of the last days and missed the Starstyling show, which we regret. We would have loved to see those wooden shoes with a tape roll as sole and a yarn roll as heel that everybody is talking about. And when we saw the pics we were even more sad. It looks like a very innovative collection in a very special style, very starstyling.. karneval meets starwars meets le petit prince.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Nele made it for Sabrina Dehoff´s Sweet Surrender. And sweet it was. Models with creped hair and stunning orange or pink shadowed eyes wearing flowing dresses, shorts, light denim with silver hearts, a beautiful white jumper with floral print and summery espadrille sandals with not too much heel. Some dresses had an interesting bag-like volume in the back. Accessories had quite a 90ies influence, feathers and silver and felt a bit too overloaded in the end. The audience applauded to a Mens combination, consiting of shirt and pants of shiny black with loose fit.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Of course none of us missed Kaviar Gauche. They were showing the first time their bridal couture. It was beautiful. Linda told already years ago, that if she will ever marry it will be in a Kaviar Gauche dress!  The show opened with the great „je t’aime“ song of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin and red spotlights on the audience. Which changed into the strong voices of Rosenstolz „Heirate mich!“ A white floor-lenght weddingdress with a black mini mouse bow on the waist. A white feather dress, then several dresses of amazingly light fabrics followed, the kind of lamellaes were floating with the moves of the models as if they were under water. An off-white overall Gala style with rever collar and diamant applications. Hair like Charly´s Angels. A transparent wrapped blouse, white leather pants cut in 2 mm stripes, a snake printed short leather jacket, of course the typical Kaviar Gauche buckle belts and buckles also on high heels. Volants and fringes wiggeling. Applause for a two pieces weddingdress with a big golden chain under the breast. The voluminous fabrics ended in big loops on shoulders.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

Esther Perbandt took us to the streets. She just cut the road off! A girls big band all dressed in black, witchy outfits singing the Andrews Sisters’ song ”Bei mir bist Du schön” by walking the street. The models danced, sang and interacted with them. Black eyes and fashion in beige and coral red, tie-dyed grey and black. Suddenly a police car stopped and the girls disappeared, to come out at another point to follow up their demonstration. We awaited them at the Esther Perbandt shop enjoying a delicious Bio icecream.

photos Marc Schuhmann

We missed the Kai Kühne show but the pictures show some futuristic elegant styles on sexy longlegs and scary eyes.

photos “Courtesy of IMG Fashion”

We finished fashion week at our own party at Michelberger Hotel in Hawaian mood. Beautiful models in Eley Kishimoto dresses, the Berlin Jammers freestyling, a Tiki Rock live performance, a delightful DJ line up including our special guest Mark Eley, lots of drinks, fun and dancing.

Thanks to everybody who came and love to everybody who made the venue possible!

photos Marina Rosso