I can´t tell you how this picture (below) of Christian Neumann and Virginia Ferreira, the heads behind UK-based label  Belle Sauvage, makes my heart jump. Eight years ago, Christian, three other friends and i moved in an old house in a tiny Swabian village to spend one year together while studying.

Besides being interested in fashion as in other design-related disciplines, we spent our time on artsy fartsy things and new media design stuff and left one year later to go abroad.
If somebody would have told us, that eight years later, Christian is doing a fashion show during London Fashion Week with this girl he met in Buenos Aires, and that i will have a fashion blog writing about their label that went to zero to super-boost…we probably might have called this person a damn fool. (more…)

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Todd Lynn clients better not dare to think about female curves and subtle pads, but rather chose between the sleeky snowflakes-look or rough-tough men-eater image.

Calling believe, hope and faith his source of inspiration, Todd Lynn pits self-confidently against the year of recession with razor-sharp, androgynous looks. (more…)

If Manish Arora wouldn´t have set up the circus theme so extraordinarily great, my view on Ashish´s presentation might have been more complaisant.
But while Manish Arora won my enthusiasm with exuberant but well balanced designs, the first view on Ashish´s collection ended with a huge question mark in my head.
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Traditionally, fashion elite school Central Saint Martins releases its MA graduates with the privilege of defile in the context of London Fashion Week into professional life. And yesterday it was the 2009 graduates who entered the stage. Only a cold comfort in view of the fierce economic situation but at least a working tool to get attention as initial aid which is way more than students from ordinary design schools can expect. (more…)

Berlin-based Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski went with Create Berlin to London Fashion Week and presented this exciting and highly forward T-Shirt designs. Three 3D bodyscans were transformed into sewing patterns and added with personal experiences of the scanned persons – ready are (more…)

Following Christopher Kane´s professional carreer is like reading a fast lane. And that although it´s only two years old. Since the 26-years old young designer graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006 he´s not only consulting Madame Donatella Versace, but also became an (more…)

London Fashion Week and some do it different – For the Adidas by Stella McCartney Show award-winning athletes replaced the models and instead of a catwalk, various gymnastic apparatuses have been placed in the hall. According to Style.com the show was a breathtaking athletic spectacle with gym atmosphere, acrobatic presentations on a top level and a clothing presentation on athlete-bodies. For me, great to see that the girls were not always indenting to smile the sweet way while being concentrated and sweating, and instead of showing of popular skin and bones, muscles and non-standardized (more…)