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Berlin has always been a kaleidoscope of cultures. People from all over the world come here to spend some time or start a new life. Each and every one of them brings a little piece of their home country with them, may it be a recipe, a local tradition, an idea, or a project they started there and continue here. All of these things enrich Berlin is creativity and diversity. It gives its inhabitants the feeling they are not just living in one city, but they are living in the entire world in one place.
In our series about foreign lifestyles in Berlin we have already introduced you to the contributions to our city that came from Turkish and from Polish people. For our third edition we are looking at a country that is much further away than that: It’s also known as Down Under!
For our Australian edition we are also introducing a novelty to our series: We teamed up with the beloved international hair care brand Aussie to give you the chance to not only experience the Australian lifestyle here in Berlin, but also to win a travel budget of 2500 EUR to fly all the way down under yourself and get a taste of the Aussie life! More about that after the jump. Read on…
by Frank | Art, Cafés, Fashion, Music, Travel
Frau Feeger, photo: Ale Inwonderland
Step into The Ballery in Schöneberg for a multi-sensual exhibition that is all but fitting within the norm. A group of artists has come together in an exciting exhibition of ‘Adornism’ shaking up today’s numb world of mass-production and consumerism through excessive decoration in art and self outside the stagnant white art cube.
In history humans have been decorating their bodies around the world for tens of thousands of years and the selected group of artists is bringing this forward into the 21st century with an eclectic collection of paintings, photographs, wearable art and sculpture for a multi-sensual experience. These works don’t aim to please nor fit within the norm and the creation rather is for its own sake. The artists breath fresh air into dead and uniform objects and with that starting a revolution in itself as their expression of the complex and ambiguous experience of modern existence. Forget modern minimalism, this exhibition is all about opulence and bringing life to images and objects by the detail oriented and skilled adorning of self and art. See details and artists after the jump.
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by Yoori | Art
Our friends from Dodo Magazine gave us the most charming online advent countdown this year with their Very Dodo Christmas tree series. They invited 21 artists and creative peeps from Berlin to each decorate a Christmas tree and the results are super funny and cute. We have a tree with monsters, houses, candy, one giant ornament, a snowman tree, a Laura Palmer tree, a ghost tree and a pizza tree to name only a few. I also made a tree for this series with my childhood collection of over 80 smurfs and mushroom houses that was so much fun to do! After the jump you can see some of the trees. The whole collection with artist ortraits you will find on the Dodo Magazine fanpage. Merry Christmas!
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by Frank | Art
Considering the excruciating stiffness and dreadfully boring sense of fashion of us Germans (it’s true! just look around!) it comes as no surprise that it takes a looney pair of Aussies with a lot of sun in their hearts to create something like The Colour Parade here in Berlin. What it is is a fun little gathering of likeminded excentric individuals who want to praise the glory of self-expression in the most of colourful ways: with crazy-ass outfits and make-up. What a joy for the eyes and just what the grey, conformative crowd of Berlin needs to lighten the fuck up. The details after the jump!
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by Frank | Events, Fashion, Mitte, Party
For me one of the most stunning events of the recent Berlin Fashion Week was the Anaglyph show at Heimathafen Neukölln. Not only was it at amazing venue for a fashion show, but also the designs were great and the projected 3D stereoscopic animations accompanying the choreography of the models were really spectacular.
It’s been a while that I made a animated GIF photo set of a fashion show, but this one was calling for it. So I hope I’m bringing a new dimension to this otherwise already fully loaded presentation. Enjoy the animated photos as well as a little video documentation about the Anaglyph project after the jump. By the way, if you happen to have a pair of stereoscopic 3D glasses (the ones that have one red and one blue glass, not the grey ones from the cinema) than you will actually be able to see the 3D effect in my photos and GIFs.
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by Frank | Art, Fashion, Photos
For the upcoming season of the Berlin Fashion Week we have partnered up with a couple of alternative fashion events in our continuous effort to support young designers, avant-garde fashion and new ideas in Berlin. The first of these special events that we have selected is called Anaglyph which is also the name of a collective of young creatives from different fields who will present the results of their collaboration with an elaborate 3d stereoscopic runway show. The whole concept does not only connect people from different cultures, but also brings interdisciplinary work to a new level by combining the fields of fashion and shoe design, photography, 3d and video art, screen-print and illustration, choreography and music, embroidery and crochet, as well as hair and make-up art. We are particularily excited that our friend Anto Christ is going to be part of this with her amazing make-up and crochet work.
The Anaglyph event is going to take place on Saturday July 12, 2014 at Heimathafen Neukölln, with the first show at 18:30h (invitation only) and the second one at 20:00h (public, free entrance) with an aftershow party at 21h at Sameheads. Join the Facebook event to keep updated with the details. After the jump we have a teaser video and some previews for you.
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by Frank | Events, Fashion
Today I have to tell you a true story about an unique Berlin encounter. I was sitting in a restaurant with a friend eating when a group of amazing people all dressed up in the most shiny and colorful wardrobe entered. I was totally blown away and approached the girl who seemed to be the queen of the group! I stand in front of her and asked her: Who are you? She looked upon me and said: “Hi, I am Anto! Anto Christ!”
People! Can you imagine? I felt like the fashion apocalypse was ready to strike. But then she smiled and told me more about her fashion designs and her artwork. Anto Christ is from Australia and living in Berlin for a couple of years now. She is regulary doing exhibitions, art events and also hosting parties. I fell really in love with her style and with her amazing creations of knit and crochet you can see also on her homepage. After the jump you will see some more pictures of her and her styles. All very colorful and definetly fruity. Check them out.
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by Tati | Art, Fashion
photos: Devid Gualandris
After spending the whole day in the Fashion Week tent on Tuesday watching tiny skeleton girls running down the catwalk I was quite happy to go to The Shit Shop fashion show of Bonnie Strange and her girls Lena and Laura. It will not surprise you that I don’t like skinny girls on the catwalk very much. Not because I think all models are anorexic or having an eating disorder. I just don’t understand why there is only one type of body on the catwalk. Actually, it simply bores me to see 30 long skinny girls one after another. In my opinion I would appreciate the creativity of a designer much more if he would be able to show his design on different types of people. Some designers did this during fashion week like Patrick Mohr (which I will write about soon) and Bonnie Strange. It felt like a fresh stormy breath. What I think about Bonnie’s collection comes after the jump.
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by Tati | Fashion, People
Today I have a documentary titled Evolve Already by Jess Mills in our Sunday short film section for you. It’s about a group of excentric individuals from Australia who have organized a commune for like-minded as well as street parades that challenge the common conceptions of art and expression. Two of them, Anto Christ and Casio Ono, have now moved to Berlin mixing up the crowd with their colorful characters. Enjoy the film after the jump.
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by Frank | Movies, Videos
