More fashion, more fun please

Berlin Fashion Week is over. Was it a good week? We honestly don’t know yet as it takes some time and distance to digest. We haven’t had time to post every day but surely with all other posts and pictures and street style snaps and instant reports, fashion readers are already overwhelmed. The information overkill and the quality of it do not necessarily correlate, but the readers were not alone. Let’s be honest – with so many locations, shows, tradeshows and shop openings do we really have time to see it all? No. Do we need to? Not so sure. Do we miss something? This is a rhetorical question.

Don’t get us wrong – we love fashion. We are prepared to spend hours waiting for a good show to get our chunk of inspiration and emotional touch. We really care and would give anyone daring to show as much credits as we could. But this week was different. And confusing. Too many shows with less quality were our problem. We missed Kaviar Gauche and Penkov. We enjoyed Michael Sontag, Vladimir Karaleev, mongrels in common, Patrick Mohr and Hien Le, and studio presentations of DSTM and Dawid Tomaszewski.  Dutch Iris van Herpen and Belgian A.F.Vandevorst brought a bit of a sparkle into the sea of reduced, minimalist, good quality fashion. 


But the rest? Solid but boring. The concept of wearability does not justify the absence of ideas. The core, the essence of what fashion made or shown in Berlin should be is missing. Jil Sander has put her minimalistic mark – 20, 30 years ago?  Karl Lagerfeld said in his Spiegel ping pong with Bread and Butter CEO Karl-Heinz Mueller: “Berlin takes itself way too serious...”  Maybe he is right; we shouldn’t be so dead serious about it. 
Let’s have some fun next season!


image courtesy: Iris van Herpen