Mongrels in Common – Fall 2010 – Berlin

reportage by Boris Marberg and Peter Becher
photos by Boris Marberg, Wolfgang Wöhrle, and Peter Becher
edited by Alexandra Dawes

The design team behind Mongrels in Common, Livia Ximenez-Carillo and Christine Pluess, created a bold and determinedly cohesive Fall 2010 collection for Berlin Fashion Week.  The duo concentrated on particular shapes, which were presented on both hard and soft-looking fabrics, in a diminished palette of mint green, grey, black and salmon pink. … Continue Reading

Lala Berlin – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story and photos by Boris Marberg
photo editing by Katie Piper

Lala Berlin, opened the Michalsky StyleNite event in Berlin’s Theatre Fridrichstadtpalast as one of three homegrown Berlin avant garde brands showing there that night during Berlin Fashion Week, together perhaps the first viable spin-off from Mercedes-Benz Fashionweek in the tents at Bebelplatz. The popular historic facility literally offered a huge stage, one of the largest in the world still today, to present an amazing evening of energy and talent. … Continue Reading

Marcel Ostertag – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story by Peter Becher
photos by Wolfgang Wöhrle and Peter Becher
photo editing by Katie Piper

Berlin Fashion Week’s edgy intellectual London-trained rising star designer Marcel Ostertag, based in Munich, follows a simple principle: nothing given out of hand, nothing left to chance. The rather large collection is all created in his small studio in the center of Munich, with mass production also carried out locally. … Continue Reading

Frida Weyer – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story by Boris Marberg
photos by Boris Marberg and Pete Cameron Dominkovits
photo editing by Katie Piper

Frida Weyer is one of the rising star Berlin designers.

Weyer founded her label in 2008, after studying fashion design at the ESMOD International Fashion University in Berlin. She recently won the Premium Young Designers award and was a finalist of the Designer for Tomorrow by Peek & Cloppenburg during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, as well as their New Faces Fashion Award winner in 2009. … Continue Reading

arrondissement Aq1 – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story and photos by Boris Marberg
photo editing by Katie Piper

Christina Arend’s arrondissement Aq1 brand has a self-concept of a premium label with a mixture of casual and evening dress. With her last collection she won the fist price of the Premium Young Designers Award Spring/Summer 2010.

In January she presented her newest collection “Oneness Universe” at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin. Arend was born in 1984 and started her design career at well known labels and designers like Kaviar Gauche (Berlin), Jasmin De Milo (London) and Fendi after finishing a university fashion design program.

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Chaya – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story by Boris Marberg with contributions by Peter Becher and Michael Fragoso
photos by Boris Marberg, Wolfgang Wöhrle, Pete Cameron Dominkovits, Peter Becher

Chaya is a new brand founded by designer Jill Asemota in 2009, supported by veteran designers Nina Maurach and Eric de Bastos, which recently had its tent debut at Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week. They presented two lines, Chaya Doll and Chaya Shirts. There were figure-hugging cuts in the dresses and skirts, all very feminine, but some of the models had problems with skirts and dresses riding up during the show. It is all supposed to tie back to a 1950s pin-up aesthetic with references to Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page. … Continue Reading

Kaviar Gauche “Stripped” Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

story and photos by Boris Marberg
photo editing by Katie Piper

Running parallel to Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week was the Michalsky StyleNite, which included three of the more avant garde designers’ collections: Michalsky, Lala Berlin, and Kaviar Gauche.

The inspiration for the Kaviar Gauche collection and show was the Berlin avant garde artists of the 1920s, with nods to the uninhibited urges toward amusement expressed by period style icons like Marlene Dietrich. … Continue Reading

Schumacher, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin

story and photos by Boris Marberg

Schumacher opened Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week in the big tent at Beleblpatz with a classic Dorothee Schumacher collection, normal dark colors and materials for the label’s fall line. The boots were dark but shining. Everything was a bit inconspicuous and understated and elegant. … Continue Reading

Hugo Boss Black, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin

story by Charles Beckwith
photos by Boris Marberg

From earth tones to eggplant to black and cobalt blue, this elegant and varietal collection of women’s and men’s fall clothing and accessories from Hugo Boss showed quality tailoring with innovative style throughout, and will certainly please a lot of consumers. … Continue Reading