Posts with tag Berlin

Vivienne Westwood just presented her Anglomania collection during Berlin's Fashion Week. As usual, we were wow'ed by the Great Dame of fashion. There's no show like a Vivienne show!

Mischa Barton's days as an A-list actress are basically over. But, she's still big in fashion. From New York to Berlin, this girl will show up anywhere! Although actual Germans Heidi Klum and Diane Kruger didn't feel the need to make an appearance at their country's fashion week, no worries -- Mischa was there to make a scene instead.

Gutentag, Berlin Fashion Week! The event kicked off just yesterday and will continue through Sunday. But, we have a feeling they'll be hard pressed to top the grand opening -- there were models dressed in assless chaps and leather bondage strutting their stuff in an underground catwalk at the Berlin subway Alexanderplatz station!

Is it possible to be totally impressed and totally creeped-out at the exact same time? Because that's pretty much the way we felt when we say that a German paparazzi type was holding one of Kate Moss' hair extensions hostage on Ebay. Apparently, while Kate was in Berlin last month, promoting her new fragrance Velvet Hour -- she had a wardrobe malfunction that's making this guy at least €805 ($1,269) as we write this post.

The story, as best we can translate, goes something like this: Kate was leaving her Velvet Hour afterparty thing, looking hot and showing off her flowing locks on the red carpet, when -- boink! -- one of her hair extensions popped out. Then, this opportunistic photographer dude immediately realized its value and snatched it up. Easiest couple thousand bucks that guy's probably ever made.

Anyway, you've got a little more than a day left to place your bid. If you're into that creepy, celebrity-stalking thing.

[via PopCrunch]

The fashion scene in Berlin has grown steadily over the past ten years. With a vibrant youth culture based in the low-rent sections of the eastern part of the city, it's no surprise that ambitious endeavors in fashion, art and music have come out of the once-divided German capital. For the most part though, the avant-garde designs from Deutscheland have been considered niche-market novelties -- not collections for widespread consumption.

But all of that is about to change. In July, Berlin will host its first big name, international Fashion Week. The week-long fashion bonanza will featured the Spring 08 collections of Vivienne Westwood and Hugo Boss, as well as a few of the new faces in German design.

Just to prove that everything's coming up Rosen und Narzissen, rumor has it that next season's Top Model contestants will be headed to Berlin for the on-location portion of the competition.

Guess Tyra is going to have to figure out how you say, "Congratulations, you are still in the running to be America's Next Top Model" in German. Good luck with that ...

[via Fashionista]

Believe it or not, fashion is huge in Germany. Even though the Rhineland may not have droves of famous designers like its European brethren Italy and France, the cultural presence of the fashionable arts is well, omnipresent. From countless magazines to endless catalogs and stores, the nation of Germany is, in the word of The Kinks, a dedicated follower of fashion.

Now Germany has an official IMG Fashion Week to add to its sartorial legitimacy. Presumably German designers like Jil Sander, Wolfgang Joop, and Kai Kuhne will be on hand for the inaugural event that takes place from July 12-15 in Berlin.

Wunderbar!

Sure, he won the design competition for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center back in 2003, and sure he catapulted into the limelight as one of the world's greatest architects.

But did you realize that Daniel Libeskind also has great glasses?

As you may know, Daniel Libeskind's buildings -- which include the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Danish Jewish Center in Copenhagen -- draw upon sharp angles, broken lines and empty space to convey a simultaneous sense of loss and continuity.

Daniel Libeskind's eyeglasses, however, draw upon right angles, straight lines and clear lenses to convey a simultaneous sense of style and nerd chic.