Weekday is comin. Monki too. Not to Berlin. To Hamburg. The day after tomorrow. Life is…uuhh..
While the aspiring designers leave town, the vertical brands are coming. At least SOME fashion chit-chat going on. Sensational.
And even more sensational is, that we are not flooded by straight-in-your-face posterstickingshit, nor mass mailings via facebook-fan groups. Instead, the Swedes knock on the door with gentle guerilla art-gardening and adorable “fruits”.

Those wooden sock-trees have been on-off installed all around town, inviting people to do the “fruit pickers”. Last i saw them in the Gängeviertel and the AMD and there are some rumors that tomorrow, Hikaru Miyakawa`s Vernissage at Galerie Oelfrüh will be an art show with “benefits” and last option to pick….

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Dave the Chimp on his blog about an art-marketing-guerilla action that was highly discussed by German media: “At 5am this morning myself and a group of others met the artist Brad Downey in the shopping district of West Berlin.
Downey had accepted a commission from the clothing label Lacoste to create a window display for them for the department store KaDeWe.
He had refused to tell his client what he had planned for the window, and they were growing increasingly nervous.
Downey’s idea was, if you’re going to employ a vandal, you’re going to get a vandal.
So, after the shutters went up on the store just before 6am, he took a fire extinguisher loaded with green paint (the corporate colour of Lacoste) and sprayed the front windows and sign of the store from one end to the other.
My job was simply to wait with a bag at the other end of the store with which to conceal the fire extinguisher while Downey headed off to the escape vehicle.
I then headed around the block, changing my shirt, and joined up with J….. who filmed the event, to advise him what the police were up to and be his look-out while he filmed them.
Downey plans to show the video of the action alongside the fire extinguisher as his window display (that is, if his client doesn’t kill him first!)

German news sites have reported the action, but seem to think it’s a political comment as the windows are currently showing the work of a Chinese designer!”

Photos via Just

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