Marke’s Mario Kleine might be in the thrall of the past, yet there’s something about his menswear that is absolutely rooted in the present. The softer, gentler, more fragile notion of tailoring that was the story of the recent run of European men’s shows? The Koln-based Kleine has been doing...
Andrej Gronau needed a holiday; like, really needed a holiday. Yet no break was in sight, and the young designer, who’s living between London and Berlin—nomading, as someone put it to him backstage after his show—didn’t get much sympathy when he mentioned it to his family. “Why do you have...
Good news: You don’t have to jump full-send into a Mediterranean diet to incorporate anti-inflammatory foods into your routine. There are plenty of healthy, delicious, easy-to-prepare snacks for a busy workday to help you get started. According to the Cleveland Clinic, some benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet include increased energy,...
Fewer aesthetics have been so ascribed to the annals of pop culture history as boho chic. The crochet, the suede, the fringe; its patron saints Kate Moss and Sienna Miller.Anne Hathaway is one such student of the style. Often, you’ll see her in billowing sundresses and straw hats, toting a...
Unvain’s second runway collection at Berlin Fashion Week marks a decisive shift. Last season, the Berlin-based label presented oversized, sculptural silhouettes that bordered on the monumental. This time, the shapes are not only softer, they have become more authentic. The collection, titled “Skins,” trades spectacle for character.Instead of starting with...
A quick history lesson: Few places in Berlin embody the futuristic optimism of the 1970s quite like the International Congress Centrum (ICC). Opened in 1979, the silver megastructure, built to hold up to 20,000 people, still feels like a relic of a future that never quite arrived. Against that backdrop,...
For her spring 2027 collection, “Lost to Virtue,” Laura Gerte explored the deconstruction of femininity’s moral ideals. Her starting point was research into Dadaism and the work of artist and poet Mina Loy, whose feminist manifesto, written in 1914, framed female “virtue”—or rather virginity—as a patriarchal tool of control. Published...
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