HomeBerlinBerlin Fashion Week: Aldi market to Zeiss Planetarium: – the coolest locations of the fashion week
Berlin presents itself from its best side at Fashion Week. Not only fashionable: We show you the most unusual venues of the fashion week.
Manuel Almeida Vergara
With the television tower and magnificent buildings: Kristina Bobkova invited to the garden of the Kronprinzenpalais.Benjamin Pritzkuleit on Monday
On Monday at Fashion Week, visitors needed strong nerves. At the presentation of the designer Lucas Meyer-Leclère, who held his fashion show in the cold store on the old station site at the Gleisdreieck: a gloomy, low room; deep darkness, broken again and again by blindingly bright strobe lights in blue, pink and red.
Meyer-Leclère, who mostly works with vintage pieces and historical fabrics, which he tailors and paints by hand, but now for the first time also presents garments sewn from scratch, has proven to have a good hand. Not only with his collection, but also with the choice of his show location: the Berlin disco storm of lights formed a wonderful contrast to his designs, which are borrowed from the gracefulness of Parisian couture.
Anyway: The venues of the Berlin Fashion Week, which has been running from Monday to Friday, are particularly diverse this season – again. Last year, the designers had already convinced with exciting, even absurd locations such as a former GDR archive in Marzahn or a Turkish wedding hall in Kreuzberg; there was even a fashion show in the Red Town Hall.
In 2019, William Fan held his fashion show at Kunstgewerbemuseum.imago
In January 2023, the label SF1OG was allowed to show its collection in the Rotes Rathaus.imago
In 2016, Perret Schaad invited customers to Baumarkt.Imago parallel to regular customer operations
In January 2023, the newcomer Sia Arnika invited to a former GDR archive.Imago
In 2018, the Austrian Lena Hoschek hijacked the Botanical Garden.Imago
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Now, this season, many of the young brands are following suit: On Tuesday, the Richert Beil label had its models stroll through an empty Aldi branch on Leibnizstraße, which was hardly recognizable as a former food discounter; the currently extremely hyped label Milk of Lime from Rhineland-Palatinate, in turn, hijacked the Zeiss Planetarium in Prenzlauer Berg for its show.
There have even been fashion shows in the Rotes Rathaus
The James-Simon-Galerie on the Museum Island also fitted in perfectly with the collection of the renowned label Odeeh, which presented itself as a kind of eclectic art collection with its complex combination of numerous textures and prints, patterns and colors, in which the most diverse moods and subjects next to each other within easy reach.
In the course of the week there will also be productions by Rianna+Nina in the Alte Nationalgalerie, William Fan in the Gropiusbau or the Berlin label SF1OG, which will present its new collection in the futuristic Ludwig-Erhard-Haus in Charlottenburg – more classic fashion week locations such as the power plant or the Kronprinzenpalais will be used again anyway.
Almost like an art collection of its own: Odeeh showed a variety of prints in the James Simon Gallery on Monday. Finnegan Koichi Godenschweger
It is one of the – tendentially few – advantages that Berlin has to offer compared to more sedate and more expensive fashion cities such as Milan and Paris, New York or London: While the really exciting locations can only be booked by big brands with big budgets, come here also the small labels to the train.
Not for the faint of heart: Lucas Meyer-Leclère presented fashion in the gloom of the cold store Haydon Perrior on Monday
What exciting fashion show locations hadn’t there been in recent years: the designer William Fan once set up his catwalk at the top of the television tower, there were presentations in the botanical gardens, in places of worship such as the Marienkirche, St. Agnes and St. Elisabeth, in a hardware store during regular customer service. And in the Neue Nationalgalerie, 2013 by the Berlin label Perret Schaad – a whopping ten years before the big French label Saint Laurent made a guest appearance there a few weeks ago.
At the Fashion Week, Berlin not only shows fashion, but also its most beautiful sides in terms of locations. And its greatness: The Berlin newcomer Sia Arnika, who is also worn by international superstars like Kylie Jenner and who kidnapped her to the GDR archive in Marzahn last season, invited guests a little further out of the city this week.
Sia Arnika held her fashion show on Tuesday evening in the Havelstudios on the edge of Grunewald. One would hardly be surprised if the designer were asked to come to Potsdam next time.
2023-07-11 16:55:52
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