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Atelier, Misha Hollenbach and Shauna Toohey, P.A.M., Weltkulturen Labor, Photo: Wolfgang Günzel, 2012

Trading Style – A Museum as Trading Post

A fresh wind is blowing through the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures); remixing masks and moccasins, animal skin and fur clothing, and crocheted backpacks, Black Forest Bollenhüte (traditional felt hats), bridal headdresses and feather necklaces. In the exhibition “Trading Style,” all these anachronistic objects can be marvelled at in a new context.More ...

Content guaranteed generated – Fashion between art and technology

In times in which aesthetic standards for Google’s high-tech head-worn display “Glass” are being sought, designers are demonstrating that linkages between art, technology and fashion often show the most promise where technological aspects serve to realise a conceptual idea.More ...

Portrait Barbara Vinken © Barbara Vinken

“Fashion as a seismograph of society” – An Interview with Barbara Vinken

Literary critic, Barbara Vinken, talks to Goethe.de about cross-dressing, the loss of dress style and bizarre, disrespectful fashion.More ...

German’s Fashion photography

Germany’s fashion photography scene is in motion – Markus Ebner, Editor-in-Chief of the fashion magazine “Achtung”, presents ten young photographers.More ...

Anja Schlamann, fashion collection of Johanna Lutz Johanna Lutz: Former Goseriede-Bath Hannover | © Anja Schlamann

Space pioneers – fashion photography and architecture

We cannot escape fashion, and we cannot do without architecture. We tailor to both. We all wear fashion and everyone needs architecture as a place to work or to live in.More ...

Portrait Joana Breidenbach | Photo: private

German Objects – Design Culture and Feeling for Life

What do Thonet chairs, Braun appliances or new designer fashions from Berlin reveal about Germans’ view of the world? Is there a specifically German type of design, and if so, what distinguishes it? Joana Breidenbach, an ethnologist and cultural studies expert, in an interview with Goethe.de.More ...

Detail “Dress”, 1937, Elsa Schiaparelli, in collaboration with Salvador Dali. 1969 | Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Fashion and Art – the Story of an Embrace

Wearable – unwearable. Today, fashion at times makes its appearance on the stage of art. Here, no limits are set to the reinvention and deconstruction of a familiar garment.More ...

A friendship T-shirt turns into a complete collection – Munich skater and snowboard fashion labels

An ongoing skate and snowboarding subculture has been developing in Munich since the nineteen nineties. The growing number of skateboarders and snowboarders has also led to the launch of individual clothing labels.More ...

Creative trio: Anja Kellner, Marta Olesniewicz and Lucie Schmid (f.l.) © CUT

Fashionistas Go DIY – the Magazine Cut

Three young women from Munich have seized upon the do-it-yourself trend and put it into a fashion magazine. Creative, unusual and with its finger on the pulse of the style scene.More ...

createurope – Springboard for Young Designers

Competitions are springboards for young fashion designers. The designers who participated in createurope. THE FASHION DESIGN AWARD organised by the Goethe-Institut made good use of their opportunities – in very different ways.More ...

“First Spring”, Yang Fundong for Prada, Copyright: Prada

A New Love Affair – Clothes, Art and Moving Images

Prada, Proenza Schouler, Pringle of Scotland – more and more artists are making films for the big designer labels. The question is why?More ...

Wednesday 19th May 2010, Vienna, Copyright: Tea & Twigs

Expressing a Strong Opinion: the Fashion Blog Boom

There are more and more fashion blogs in Germany too. The fashion debate has become increasingly multi-voiced, more subjective and faster-moving. And the fashion designers can’t keep ignoring the bloggers any longer, so they are making them part of the system.More ...

Backstage, Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Berlin, Copyright: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin/Photo: M. Nass/Brauer

Fashion in Germany – The Mix Is the Secret!

Germany has still not evolved into a classic fashion nation. But with a mix of established designers and successful brands, up-and-coming young talents and Berlin as its creative epicentre, its significance as a fashion hub is growing.More ...

Vilde Svaner collection; Copyright: Vilde Svaner

No More Woolly Sock Image: Eco-fashion And Design Are No Longer A Contradiction

Organic cotton instead of contaminants: so-called eco-fashion is becoming increasingly popular and increasingly fashionable. New labels in particular combine cool design with the philosophy of sustainability.More ...

Michael Sontag, Berlin Fashion Week, Collection F/S 09; Copyright: Michael Sontag/Photo: Christian Schwarzenberger

Highly Gifted and with their own Signature Style: The Young Ones are Coming

An atmosphere of new beginnings prevails, for at the Berlin Fashion Week in January 2010 there has been a real explosion of talent this time.More ...

Lili Maras, Collection 2009, Copyright: Lili Maras

Design from the Main – A Notable Fashion Scene is Growing in Frankfurt

First and foremost, Frankfurt is a financial metropolis. But in recent years, many talented fashion designers have established themselves there and some of them have even dared to enter the luxury segment.More ...

From the film „Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie“, Copyright: polyband Medien GmbH

About Strong Women, Home-Made Clothes and Fashion Punks: how fashion in the GDR could create freedom

In the GDR clothes were not fashion, they came into the category of “supplying consumer goods”. Nevertheless a counter-culture grew up around the socialist uniform look – especially with the fashion magazine Sibylle and fashion theatre by ccd and allerleirauh.More ...

Agnė Kuzmickaitė, 'shopoholic' collektion, Copyright: createurope: THE FASHION ACADEMY AWARD

Fashion Without Borders – Young Designers Must Be Highly Mobile

International experience is an advantage in almost all professions these days. This is particularly the case in the world of fashion, as this is a global industry which demands a good feeling for other cultures.More ...

'Woman wearing a 'Schalk'. 'Schalk' as in use nowadays, but made of patterned woolen fabric instead of black silk. 'Schalk' means jacket. Copyright: Trachten-Informationszentraum Benediktbeuren/Foto: Daniel Breidt, München

The “Peasant Girl” Look For The Urban Jungle – Traditional Bavarian Dress, Or “Tracht”, Is All the Rage

Constant, yet forever innovative – traditional Bavarian or Alpine dress, or “Tracht” as it is known in German, has managed to find a niche for itself – especially in the wardrobes and closets of southern Germany.More ...

„WeAr“ Global Magazine, Design and concept Alexander Lipsius and Sandra Dunkel, Berlin, Copyright: WeAr

Beauty By The Page: Germany’s Independent Fashion Magazines

Avantgarde instead of mainstream, cosmopolitan, unique editorial profiles, and a cultural take on fashion – these are the characteristic features of Germany’s independent fashion magazines.More ...

Used all over the World – Mannequins Made by Cologne-Based Company Moch

The Cologne-based company Moch Figuren GmbH is the oldest surviving manufacturer of mannequins in Europe. Moch dummies liven up the window displays of international designers as well as household-name department stores or sales stands at major fashion exhibitions.More ...

A Brilliant Past and so much Potential for the Future – Fashion in Berlin

Creativity aplenty and more and more savvy – step by step Berlin is managing to establish itself as a fashion mecca.More ...

Against Mass-Produced Goods: the Renaissance of Handcrafted Products

In the age of globalisation, the special is gaining in value. In Germany, people are sewing and knitting again – and handcrafted unique items or products made in limited series are much in demand.More ...

ELLE (01/09), Copyright: Hubert Burda Media

The Tried-and-True Between Tradition and Innovation: Fashion Magazines in Germany

Train station bookshops and kiosks are filled with fashion, lifestyle and women’s magazines. New titles come and go, as the number of those competing for a slice of the luxury, glamour and fashion market is considerable.More ...

Collection Stephan Schneider, Men SS 09, © Stephan Schneider

„Unfortunately, for Fashion Designers, Bestsellers are Taboo”: an Interview with Stephan Schneider

With his straightforward style and top-quality ready-to-wear line, this fashion designer has created a label that is in demand internationally. He was appointed Professor of Fashion Design at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste – UdK) in 2007.More ...

Gisela & Erika, Cloth handkerchiefs, 2008, Foto: Itai Margula, Stephan Hann

Prized Dresses Made from Worthless Materials – the Fascination of Stephan Hann’s Creations.

„Couture Remixed“ or „Recycling Couture“ is how the designer Stephan Hann designates his aesthetic fashion objects. They move in the interface of the applied and fine arts.More ...

Organic Cotton from Burkina Faso, © Hess Naturtextilien GmbH

Green On the Outside – Certificates for “Green Textiles”

Tested and found to be environmentally sound: the demand for certificates for “green textiles” is growing, but legislators have yet to take action.More ...

Innovation and Diversity: Munich – a Focal Point for Fashion

Munich – A Fashion Mecca.More ...

From Old to New – Recycling Fashion

Some fashion designers have dedicated themselves to the concept of recycling. They recycle old clothes and use them to create unique items: Children's clothes, hooded pullovers, ladies' jackets, evening dresses.More ...

Collection 2007, © Blauer Montag/Lichtbildwerke Schäkel

Fashion in Cologne: Joining Forces

Over the past two years in particular, a number of young fashion designers in Cologne have been carving out personal niches and joining forces to create an wide-reaching network.More ...

Hartwich Spring/Summer 2008, © Doris Hartwich

Elegant, Individual, Eccentric, Creative – Men’s Fashion from Germany

For a long time its international image was one of respectability and excellent quality - the mainstay being the compact and ever so durable man's suit . Today German men's fashion has become much more versatile and innovative.More ...

The Charm of Knirps and Birkenstocks

Accessories from Germany – trendy companions for dedicated followers of fashion all over the world.More ...

'Vor den Cheopspyramiden' (In front of the Cheops Pyramid), Karin Mossberg and Micky Zenati in Op-Art Fashion, Gizeh/Egypt 1966, from the magazine Brigitte 8/1966, © Stiftung F. C. Gundlach

F.C. Gundlach – A Master of Fashion Photography

F.C. Gundlach ranks as the most significant fashion photographer of Germany's post-war years. His name has gone down in the pages of fashion history and even today he still wields great influence on photography in Germany – as an initiator of exhibitions, a collector and as a patron.More ...

'30 paar haende', Copyright: Harry Schnitger

Campus Couture – the 30paarhaende Label

Every six months this label changes its designers - 30paarhaende is not just a fashion company, but also a university project which enables students to get to know the "serious side of fashion design" for one term.More ...

Street Style

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 ...

Konk store in Berlin, Copyright: Jochen Büttner

Wut Berlin: Berlin apparel in exclusive shopping paradise Shibuya

One year ago a version of the charming boutique Konk in Berlin's Mitte district opened its doors in Shibuya, the commercial heart of Tokyo. Entitled Wut Berlin, the small shop is above all a showcase for young Berlin-style fashion.More ...

From Jürgen Frisch's collection, tailored by Renata Pawlik, Copyright: Frisch-Design

In the Service of Berlin’s Fashion Designers

In spite of globalization: Renata Pawlik produces designer clothing in her tailoring workshop right in the heart of Berlin. Her services are in demand because the fashion designers of Germany's capital are becoming increasingly successful.More ...

From Rike Feurstein’s hat collection, Copyright: Dan Zoubek

The Courage to Wear a Hat

A visit to Berlin hatters’ ateliers shows that hat-making combines craft, art and fashion in unique creations.More ...

Niki Pauls and Ingrid Junker, © The Broken Hearts Club

A Festival of Fashion: The Broken Hearts Club Berlin

The Broken Hearts Club has long since established itself as a part of the crea-tive crowd's nightlife in Berlin. But the young avant-garde of other metropo-lises is also succumbing to the charm of the party concept from Berlin.More ...

Key-ring Machtbox, © Ina Seifart/Foto: Claudia Casagrande

ina.seifart – Eccentric Accessories

In the field of jewellery design Ina Seifart is considered to be the conceptual artist par excellence. The ideas for her designs stem from everyday objects which she transforms into beautiful accessories. It is the surprise effect, the connecting of opposites, that makes her collections so unique.More ...

Welcome to Jail

HAEFTLING is a very special fashion label: the fashion items are not only inspired by rough, everyday prison life, they are also made by the detainees. A project with model character.More ...

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