For a few years now the fashion shows by Berlin avant-garde designer Esther Perbandt have been not only about fashion but also about performance and music. For her 10th anniversary last year she had an experimental choir and an expressive dancer open her big show at the Volksbühne. The following season she herself stepped into the spotlight singing live for the first time during her fashion show. This season Esther once more created a bridge to the world of music and theater bringing in the opera singers Nadja Michael and Felix Räuber who were performing magnificently to the electronic soundscapes by Sven Helbig.
Of course such a music-driven fashion show requires a sound expert as a partner. Already for the second time Esther Perbandt has teamed up with the Berlin-based company Raumfeld that produces high quality wireless multi-room speaker systems that play music in true high fidelity thanks to the use of high-end audio components and the playback of lossless audio files. We featured the brand a while ago with an interview and store visit of their shop at Bikini Berlin and we also got to try out one of their impressive speaker sets. During the fashion show of Esther Perbandt we spotted several Raumfeld Stereo Cubes all over the place which we remember from our interview is one of their best reviewed products.
Some backstage impressions, the show review and photos of the new collection after the jump. Enjoy!
For her new Spring/Summer 2016 collection Esther divided her collection into three parts: First she presented an all black line that mostly featured her androgynous signature style of slim shapes, elegant details and avant-garde aesthetics. In a second part she showed only white and creme looks. Even though her label has always been very focussed on black there has been color and white before, but maybe never as much as this time. The brightness really brought out a different character in her designs and you can suddenly see a lot of more details that otherwise stay in the shadows. In the final part she revealed the most eye-catching designs of her collection: Black and white stripes in different versions: Sometimes in its purest form with sharp lines and clean colors, sometimes bleached into heavy fabrics and sometimes painted thickly onto sheer materials. The simplistic pattern is unusual for Perbandt, but she made it work so it came off naturally. Amusingly, sometimes I felt a little reminded of Beetlejuice, but that’s not a bad thing in my book. Enjoy the photos of the show below and on page 2!
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