FASHION EVENTS - GERMANY

By Eva Fydrych

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin A/W 2014

14 - 17 January 2014

Maybelline at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2014/15 at Brandenburg Gate

on January 16, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

BERLIN - Fashion Studio Magazine brings you the latest highlights from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week BERLIN (MBFWB) - Germany’s most important platform for emerging talent and established brands, with both avant-garde and commercially successful collections.

Berlin is one of Europe’s most fascinating fashion, art and music destinations and attracts industry leaders from all over Europe and the world. Along with the fashion tradeshows MBFWB attracts more than 200,000 journalists and retailers every season. Enjoy the pictures!

Marc Cain

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for Marc Cain (Click to enlarge)

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for Marc Cain

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Marc Cain

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Marc Cain

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Marc Cain

Under the motto “Stars, Dots & Hearts” the new looks from the upcoming Autumn/Winter 2014 collections by Marc Cain were presented at an exclusive fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin.

Once again the front row was studded with illustrious guests: Elizabeth Hurley, Barbara Schöneberger, Minu Barati-Fischer, Frauke Ludowig, Natalia Wörner, Mareile Höppner and Natalia Avelon were all impressed by the looks of the upcoming season.

Nineties-style grunge combined with punk and biker details is the emphasis of the Autumn/Winter 2014 collections, enhanced with modern, feminine and luxurious elements.

“Fabulous! I really love the new collection! All is wearable, elegant, smart and perfect for every occasion. My favourite look is the long evening dress with backless cuttout and the “The End” embroidery”, said Elizabeth Hurley, who was fascinated by the modern style mix, expressing her enthusiasm to Karin Veit, Creative Director of Marc Cain, with plentiful praise.

“Today’s show has surpassed all expectations and with our performance we have sent out a clear signal of where the journey is headed: constantly and continuously onwards and upwards. Both our customers and the press have expressed major enthusiasm and we are confidently looking towards a successful Autumn/Winter 2014 season – which we have already got off to a very successful start!” said Helmut Schlotterer, Chairman of the Management Board and the founder and owner of Marc Cain.

Laurèl

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for IMG

Franziska Knuppe (L) and Judith Rakers (Photo by Franziska Krug/Getty Images for IMG)

When fashion and music come face to face, the tension is electric - like love at first sight. And rock is no exception. Both the sound and the style of rock's heroes and their muses have inspired the new Laurèl Autumn/Winter 2014 Collection, presented as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin at the Runway marquee, Brandenburg Gate, and capturing the brand's hallmark style of feminine 'luxury ease.'

Press, customers and VIP guests were immersed in a very special fashion experience, staged as a rock concert with music by the hot up-and-coming band I Heart Sharks, providing the soundtrack to the vision of Laurèl's Head of Design Elisabeth Schwaiger.

Actors including Clemens Schick, Heino Ferch with his wife Marie Jeanette,Heiner Lauterbach with his wife Viktoria, Axel and Judith Milberg, Anja Kling, Stephanie Stumph, Lisa Tomaschewsky, Mariella Ahrens, Valerie Niehaus andCarolina Vera occupied the front row, rubbing shoulders with VIPs from the worlds of media, society and culture, among them Franziska Knuppe, Judith Rakers, Minu Fischer-Barati, Nadja Michael, Johanna Klum and Stefan Luca,Cosma Shiva Hagen, Martin Krug and Julia Trainer, Angela Lanz and Natascha Grün.

Minx by Eva Lutz

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for IMG)

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for IMG)

Photo by Peter Michael Dills/Getty Images for IMG)

For the sixth time, designer Eva Lutz of the fashion label MINX presented her highlights of the Autumn/Winter collection 2014/15 at the Berlin Fashion Week on Wednesday, January 15th 2014.

As one would expect, the show was booked out to the last seat - like the shows before have been, too. But not only experts, fashion journalists und bloggers have been seen there. With a huge summoning of celebrities, the Minx show was above-standard. About sixty VIPs celebrated crowded together and cheerfully the new creations of the exclusive label: this time it is a fascinating interaction between severe and feminin styles with Britchic and Gentleman influences.

Cool and classy - that is how topmodels Franziska Knuppe and Luisa Hartema presented the new power-looks on the runway. Together with their colleagues Franzi Müller, Katrin Thormann and Svea Berlie they showed figure-accentuating blazers, voluminous blousons, modern oversize-coats an dresses in numerous varieties. A big suprise was Bruce Darnell excorting topmodel Franzi Müller on the runway for the opening of the Red Carpet collection.

The VIPs - from Sonja Kirchberger, Natalia Wörner, Allegra Curtis to Magdalena Brzeska and Jorge Gonzalez - were enthusiastic about the innovative styles and materials. The one or other piece already developped during the show to a must-have for the upcoming season. 

Kaviar Gauche

©DAN & CORINA LECCA 

©DAN & CORINA LECCA 

©DAN & CORINA LECCA 

©DAN & CORINA LECCA 

It is meanwhile exactly a decade ago that Johanna Kühl and Alexandra Fischer-Röhler founded the fashion label Kaviar Gauche, pulling off their first coup in front of the entrance of the French department store "Colette", with their guerilla fashion show.

For their ten-year-anniversary the designers have chosen to celebrate with their new Autumn/Winter collection, aptly named "Celebrate Love". It is an expression of fashionable contrasts in which the complimentary poles of feminine and masculine elements, black and white, opulent and restrained, build on previous collections and culminate in a heightened form.

lala Berlin

Photo by Getty Images

Photo by Getty Images

The creative mastermind behind lala Berlin is Leyla Piedayesh. Time and time again she manages to reflect fleeting anarchic big-city chic in fresh new ways with her unconventional yet elegantly feminine collections. From an international perspective, the label very much epitomises the Berlin metropolis.

Back in 2010 the influential British fashion critic Suzy Menkes confessed: "I like lala Berlin!" lala Berlin fashion is unmistakeable in its cool femininity, whilst being absolutely wearable, which is why it is so highly coveted - by individualists as well as international personalities from the worlds of music, fashion and film. Fans of lala Berlin include Claudia Schiffer, Cameron Diaz, Heidi Klum, Natalie Portman, Jessica Alba, Heike Makatsch. lala Berlin designs are sold in 150 leading premium fashion stores worldwide. In addition to its own boutiques at Mulackstrasse 7 in Berlin and in Copenhagen.

Achtland

©DAN & CORINA LECCA

©DAN & CORINA LECCA

Achtland is a high-end prêt-à-porter label founded by Thomas Bentz and Oliver Lühr in 2011 in Berlin. The first Achtland collection was launched in January 2012.

Oliver Lühr, Creative Director: "Achtland is intended to encapsulate the tension that arises in the play of opposites: for example in the formal elegance of a Victorian dress shirt paired with the femininity of silk-georgette or the strong architectonic silhouette found in our evening dresses."

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