Marcel Ostertag – Spring 2011 – Berlin

Ostertag’s clear and identifiable style can be seen through his choice of fabric, graceful lines, beautiful silhouettes, attention to detail, defined tailoring, and an overall edgy influence. This is a designer who has found his voice and is singing through the clothes.

story by Alexandra Dawes
photos by Boris Marberg
photo editing by Alexandra Dawes

Marcel Ostertag sent an exceptional collection down the Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashionweek runway. One which seemed to harmonize and unite elements from both classic mens and womenswear in order to create a single, cohesive, and beautiful collection.

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Mongrels in Common – Fall 2010 – Berlin

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.

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 “Mongrels in Common – Fall 2010 – Berlin”

Lala Berlin – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

Solidarity and equality in Berlin is mostly found in the darkness of the clubs. I would have loved to see this very interesting collection deep down in Berlin’s underground in the dirty but more vivacious clubs, which attract creatives from all over the world as well as young rich people who want to associate with all that charisma.

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 “Lala Berlin – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin”

Marcel Ostertag – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

This is the kind of renaissance designer Germany needs to keep showing the world if it hopes to contend with the likes of Paris and Milan.

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 “Marcel Ostertag – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin”

Frida Weyer – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

The colors are all over the place, but it works. Weyer is dressing strong women in a very elegant way, with coltish notes and a lot of glamor.

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 “Frida Weyer – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin”

arrondissement Aq1 – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

The aim of the new collection was to create something holistically interconnected. All elements of the collection are part of one mind, from the straight-line cuts of the figure-enhancing blouses and elegant trousers to the bags, belts, and jewelery.

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

The collection is extremely sex-appeal driven, yet still quite wearable. Revealing a bit of leg here, a shoulder there, and punctuated with strong red lips gave the models a vintage pin-up look, but with a modern edge.

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 “Chaya – Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin”

Kaviar Gauche “Stripped” Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin

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.

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 “Kaviar Gauche “Stripped” Fall 2010 Collection – Berlin”

Schumacher, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin

Schumacher opened Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week in the big tent at Beleblpatz with a classic Dorothee Schumacher collection, normal dark colours and materials for the label’s fall line. Everything was a bit inconspicuous and understated and elegant.

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 “Schumacher, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin”

Hugo Boss Black, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin

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.

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 “Hugo Boss Black, Fall 2010 Collection In Berlin”