Photography, Fashion & Design

New York – the home of international fashion brands, exclusive designers, creative new-comers and extravagant chic. And the young designer market, The Market NYC, which takes place every weekend in the Meatpacking District, is right in the middle of it.More ...

He has tied back his long, greasy hair into a pony-tail; the tattoos on his throat pass seamlessly into his unshaven beard. A black leather jacket and old jeans complete the look: the stereotypical image of a tattooer. But it doesn't fit Oliver Loichinger well at all.More ...

Jugendfotos = photos by young people? The wealth of professional and expressive pictures presented at www.jugendfotos.de makes it almost hard to believe that mostly young people are snapping the shutters here. Todo Alemán wanted to know what’s behind the concept with the catchy name, and interviewed one of the creators, Andi Weiland (26).More ...

The streets and walls of Mexico City are covered with the same symbols left by pilgrims in other major cities. They use spray cans and sometimes stencils and brushes to apply the paint that gives shape to letters and faces.More ...

Not everyone in Germany has these items in their home, yet virtually everyone is familiar with them – these milestones of German design: from the 1859 coffee shop chair and the famous Steiff teddy bear to the Porsche 356 and the plastic cantilever chair from 2007. A journey through 150 years of German design history.More ...

Sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words. And so the students of the Colegio Heidelberg in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria enthusiastically participated in a photo contest on German Day. The results were creative, amusing and also affecting pictures. Todo Alemán presents the winners.More ...

More and more German comic artists are working both for top publications and on their own projects. Deutsche Welle takes a look at the country’s largest comic festival in Erlangen.More ...

Honestly now, the image of the badly-dressed German is a stupid, thread-bare cliché. It is hardly surprising that German young people seek fashion inspiration in glossy magazines or from prominent role models. What is surprising is how important it seems to be to keep one’s eye on individuality, because there is one thing people do not want under any circumstances: being interchangeable!More ...

If you walk attentively through the streets, you will sometimes encounter a monkey on a building wall, or a couple of fly agaric mushrooms. While in the past only simple tags frequently defaced public surfaces, in recent years small, but excellent street art can also increasingly be found alongside elaborate graffiti.More ...

Did anything catch your eye today, or perhaps it escaped your notice? Small inscriptions on walls, stickers on the reverse side of street signs, chewing gum machines daubed in pink paint. We register it as fly droppings, advertising rubbish or the onset of colour blindness. But actually, it's art. Street art takes the streets and public spaces and uses them as a gallery. It comes in all the shapes, colours and sizes that materials and creativity permit.More ...

Many people starting their studies still associate glitz and glamour with the profession of fashion designer. But as the term “fashion designer” is not regulated, a qualified training course at an established school plays a major role.More ...

The Germans are like sorting machines, they portion, separate, classify, take things apart. And since the job is not finished by just doing that, they love putting things back together. May there be a new purpose for the rest of it, take glass bottles or paper for instance.More ...

Trash is everywhere. But is trash always just trash? Maybe we can make it into something beautiful, something wearable, something creative and artistic.More ...

Fashion bloggers, who post photos of stylishly dressed people on the Internet, are attracting a growing group of followers. Street style blogs have also established themselves in Germany.More ...