German designer Isabell de Hillerin recently showed her new collection A/W 13/14 during the latest edition of Berlin Fashion Week.
Her designs, in a color palette ranging from deep navy blue to black, with some flashes of dusty pale mauve, is named ‘quiet’ and gets inspiration from the fragments preserved on deep ice. Discreet...
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Biannual OE Magazine has just launched its fourth issue. Composed of ten fashion editorials, shot by ten different photographers, in which each of them portrays his own personal and particular view of the fashion scene in Berlin, this amazing compilation of editorials, aims giving shape – as its editors define in their own words-...
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Although it seems that with each new sun ray the end of winter might be here, the truth is there are still some weeks left till we can definitely get rid of our warm clothes.
Since it is always better to get used to the idea and seeing the positive side of it… How...
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Had it been named after any other thing, it wouldn’t have very probably grab my attention that much; also, if this Cafe Kreuzberg had been located in any street of this neighborhood in the German capital I guess I wouldn’t have really paid attention either but it was obviously the unexpected combination of these...
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Argentinian-born, Berlin-based, illustrator Pablo Ientile, presents now his project Illustration Around the World, a very original initiative that took him on a journey around different countries in Asia to meet, draw and exchange experiences with different artists of the area. The illustrations that came out of this unusual trip will be exhibited from today...
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Atelier Yea-Yea is the studio created by artist Niko Leung, born in Hong Kong but Holland-based at the moment, while she finishes her studies en ceramics. Her proyect ‘From This to These -Progressive Copying’ begins when she encounters on a book a picture of an old Buddhist drum and decides to explore all its...
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Italian artist Andrea Brena creates amazing knitted pieces -knitting fabric strips with his own arms- for his project Knitted Army. Andrea’s interest focuses on the attachment feeling that takes place between the piece and the user when the latter renounces to any tool in order to give shape to it.
Don’t miss his proposal in...
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If you happen to be in Berlin this week what you really can’t miss under any circumstance is the latest edition of DMY -from tomorrow till Sunday; an architecture, product and interior design exhibition that annually compiles the newest and most vanguardist proposals across the globe.
The festival, taking place once again in the...
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To be sincere, when we were about to leave Berlin I already had the feeling that, maybe, we wouldn’t come back for a while; maybe because of that I started to feel that kind of nostalgia that made me take my camera with me during the last three days I spent there. You can...
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Reality Studio, the brand by German designer Svenja Specht, presented during the last edition of Berlin Fashion Week its collection for next winter, named ALI and inspired by Turkish culture.
Svenja’s work -with constant references to different cultures of the world- finds inspiration this time in the idea of multiculturality linked to the coexistence...
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Frank Horvat’s work goes further than fashion and publications like Vogue, Stern or Harper’s Bazaar; during the more than 60 years of career of this member of the prestigious Magnum agency his work has also comprised fields like nude or travel photography. The Italian photographer presents now Horvatland, an special application for iPad with...
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Nice weather is near; excursions, strolls and picnics in the open air. How many things can a bag make you think of? This one, by potipoti, in 100% cotton, with leather handles and a beautiful parrot print is telling us that spring is just around the corner and that it is time to get...
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It it not that my repertory of gifts is specially wide, to be sincere, although if there is one I display the most is the opportunity one. Oh, yes! What a big gift, this one of mine! The one that lets me spend four months in Berlin enduring eternal rains and that, on the...
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Eight artists work around the idea of how complex is actually the reality that surrounds it, for simple it may seems sometimes. Pieces by Ahmed, Alexander Dahmen, Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann, Herr Orm, K 110, Robert Matzke and Sabrina Karakatsanis give shape to Simple is Rare, the exhibition that started last Friday in Neurotitan...
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Simple is Rare opens today in Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin; a group exhibition that gathers the works by Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann o Sabrina Karakatsanis, among others and which, through different formats like painting, video-art, photography and illustration, give shape to a giant collective installation.
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Simple is Rare abre esta tarde en Neurotitan Gallery en...
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Oukan71 is a concept-store that opened its doors recently in Kronenstrasse, 71, in Berlin, mixing vanguardist design with zen decoration. You can read my article about the opening of the shop for Absolut Mode Society in here.
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Oukan71 es una concept-store que abrió recientemente en el número 71 de Kronenstrasse, en Berlín y que...
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During yesterday and today are taking place in Berlin the German Press Days, in the same building where Premium tradeshow takes place, too. National brands like Michalsky, Freitag, Juliaandben, Liebeskind Berlin o Reality Studio, among many others, are present there showing their collections for next summer.
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Durante ayer y hoy se celebran en Berlín...
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Voo store in Berlin is kind of hidden -in one of those so-typical courtyards in the German capital- in the number 24 in Oranienstrasse. When I discovered it the other day, visiting the pop-up store Primitive London had installed there, I couldn’t believe I had been missing that amazing spot for so long.
The...
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Friday evening was quite hectic in Berlin, to be sincere; after Stroke art fair and my brief visit to Voo to see the installation by Primitive London on its last day, the following not-to-miss appointment was in EastBerlin Store where designer Patrick Mohr -whose work I discovered last year during Berlin Fashion Week- presented...
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Primitive London is a London-based collective that works closely with artists and designers: it is also a shop and an art gallery created by Lui Nemeth and Andrew Green who, during last week, created a pop-up installation in Voo store in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Lui comes from Tokyo and Andrew from Australia although, after living...
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