2023-07-24 06:10:40
The bachelor’s and master’s graduates from the department of fashion design at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin present their own collections on the eve of the open house. For the presentations of bachelor’s and master’s degree collections from the years 2022 and 2023, they are organizing the Graduate Fashion Show Seefashion23 on Friday, July 21, 2023.
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21 bachelor and master graduates of the fashion design course show us their final collections this evening in the Culterim Gallery in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. They lay out their individual design points of view and design styles and as the different approaches of the designers differ, we get many different impressions. Her attitude in fashion and society are expressed in the collections. And as the runway show begins, the names of the young up-and-coming designers are projected on the wall in the background and music of their choice is played, each time ushering in the catwalk. The spectators wait anxiously and let themselves be sprinkled by the mixed presentation. From classic fashion designs to experimental art pieces, a slew of bespoke looks strut down the runway.
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All imaginable color palettes, silhouettes, textiles and materials are included. Completely different styles too. Where one designer handles oversize, fluttering fabrics and voluminous costumes and the other with layered upcycled constructions and pinned-up ruffles and overlaps, others treat ironic diva styling or outlandish shapes as clothing. Hanging fringes and trains are striking, and elsewhere it is prints such as splashes of color or avant-garde appearances. Delicate, rather feminine dresses and funky material and pattern mixes might also be found.
The collections might hardly be more different. The designers are experimenting, for example, with backpacks attached to the jacket, huge headdresses or anonymizing hoods and other accessories – whether chiffon boa, hip corset topless, shoulder pads, gloves or even shopping trolleys. The collections are very inspiring and it is amazing to see how talented Bachelors and Masters graduates have found their own fashion design language and aesthetic. It’s worth taking a look at the exciting looks and their designers for yourself. We’re sure you’ll be hearing a lot more from them in the future.
Author: Aaliyah – Photos: KOWA-Berlin – Video: fashioncine
Seefashion 2023 – Graduate Show der KH Weissensee
Cissel Dubbick – The Next Shirt
Master’s graduate Cissel Dubbik presents a loving homage to the classic shirt with her graduation collection. Crowned with the title “The Next Shirt”, it is regarding the boundaries between clothing, skin and identity and consists entirely of used men’s shirts. Sustainable upcycling is shown here as an experimental and successfully mastered challenge. For a special knitting technique, she worked together with the designer Luise Schumacher. Elastic and flexible material properties are added to a normally rigid straight shirt. Textile manipulation techniques also play a big part in this collection, whether it’s laser cutting, dyeing, waxing and latex layers. The complexity and individual identity of each piece of clothing should thus be explored anew.
Emily Fuhrmann – A corporeal forest of skin, cartographer wanders within
The final collection entitled “A corporeal forest of skin, cartographer wanders within” by Emily Fuhrmann reaped impressed faces and lots of applause right from the start of the entire fashion show. What we see here alongside the distressed knitted layers and bonnets over the heads are oddly stuffed shapes that blur the lines between body and space. Stuffed Mesa pouches and tight abrasions as well as layers of knit characterize the collection. The earth tones suggest a natural environment and the helmets with masks are reminiscent of a post-apocalypse. Every garment takes on unknown dimensions. This creates completely new interchangeable optics such as body shapes or skin.
Laura Obst – Back to nature
A hike in Saxon Switzerland near her hometown of Dresden inspired Laura Obst to create her final collection entitled “Back to Nature”. What can be described as feminine and extravagant at first glance is actually intended to reflect nature and its inner beauty. The young designer worked with different materials, silhouettes and techniques and is inspired by them at the same time. The looks meet the current zeitgeist and may even deal with a contradiction. Because for some, the looks may represent the typical red carpet baddie with sunglasses on her nose fleeing the paparazzi, although they address the relationship between man and nature. Perhaps this is proof of how skillful styling can influence individual garments.
Isabella Johner – SHE
Isabella Johner’s graduation collection under the title “SHE” deliberately focuses on elegant and feminine fashion design. The main actor here is the timeless classic of the silk scarf, which presents itself from its best side in various designs. Sometimes elaborately voluminously draped, as an airy dress, tight outerwear or even as a kind of sweater, the silk scarf appears in different forms. The designer, who seems to be keen on experimenting, relies on a special technique for this collection to bring out the authentic quality of the digital print motifs. “SHE” is strongly influenced by the uniqueness of these digital print motifs and the shimmering of the silk.
Surya Pohly – snapshot in deep blue
Bachelor graduate Surya Pohly presents us her final collection “Snapshot in deep blue” with classic cuts, muted colors and neon yellow-green eye-catchers. She dealt intensively with the question of how certain construction processes can be revealed in fashion. The collection includes a classic gray coat, an eye-catching blazer with an ombré look or a floor-length satin dress. In her work, she plays with methods of revealing and concealing. Because the eye jumps back and forth between washed-out gray colors and bright dark blue as well as neon yellow and recognizes clear contrasts and yet a coherent collection. The wide gloves also attract attention.
Theresa Grünfelder – free play
Theresa Grünfelder’s master’s graduation collection “free play” celebrates the power of color, the enjoyment of imagination and the courage to pay attention to your gut feeling. The white dresses, for example made of satin, look like empty canvases that have been provided with huge splashes of paint. However, not from wild splashes, but ones that are deliberately applied with a brush to shine like pastel-colored watercolor or acrylic details. There are also draped black net flowers, which complete the painting as if with a fineliner and give it the final, albeit minimalist, touch. The color prints transform the otherwise simple white dresses into summery women’s fashion and the flowers emphasize a small contrast. It cannot be overlooked that the fashion designer completed her master’s degree at an art school.
Emilia Seitz – Ted
Bachelor graduate Emilia Seitz presents us her graduation collection under the name “Tedé” in a historical and fashionable way. And with this she reports on her family saga in an artistically unusual way. The five unforgettable looks are regarding a Frenchman returning from the war who falls in love with a German girl and then starts a new life. The young designer deals with the conflict between two identities and two different realities with fashion that almost resembles costumes and uniforms. Highlights are the eye-catching hats, wide silhouettes and the two backpacks on a classic bomber jacket. This collection made a strong impression on viewers and demanded more biography and history in the form of catwalk looks.
Laura Lührmann – ALTO SPIRITU- memories of the future
Laura Lührmann’s final collection “ALTO SPIRITU – memories of the future” is regarding the feeling of longing on the one hand and belonging on the other. Because between two different continents she just finds the space for herself and recreates it. Their Bolivian and German identity as well as their personal approach to spirituality characterize this collection. So we see fashion in earth tones and black, feminine dramatic silhouettes and extraordinary material mixes. Sentimental upcycling gives rise to four looks that illuminate emotions and energies and are intended to pay homage to the indigenous Bolivian culture. Delicate curved lines and body-hugging cut-outs, but also special, consciously chosen symbols and cuts present the collection as a mixture of streetwear and tradition.
Stefanie Christy – A little bit of both
The final collection “A little bit of both” by Stefanie Christy consists of seven looks, which mainly play with fabric drapes. The designer deals with the interaction of elements from different social classes. Different materials and color contrasts show their best side here. For this purpose, complex draping techniques are used as well as self-drawn fabric prints. Transparent fabrics, self-made prints and asymmetrical cuts characterize the entire collection.
Helena Belenguer – Taste of Metal
Helena Belenguer’s bachelor collection is called “Taste of Metal”. She is concerned with the escapist nature of daydreaming and the construction of one’s own reality. And so you get lost in the collection and immerse yourself in an imaginary world occupied by medieval armor like the morning star or even the surreal nature of hair. With special silhouettes such as padded shoulders or a hoop skirt, the illusion of otherworldly creatures is created. A world between the worlds beyond the reality that we know is supposed to emerge.
Victoria Rost – Object Oriented
“Object Oriented” is Victoria Rost’s bachelor’s collection and questions what makes an object an object and a piece of clothing a piece of clothing. Nine wearable objects that inherit parameters such as material, affordability and feel of seating objects form a fashion collection to be worn and admired by models down the runway. The five looks are unmistakably reminiscent of animated shapes. The question of whether objects can be worn as evening wear is taken up here and presented in an almost provocative manner.
Louis Grau – Electric sheep and leaking linden
Louis Grau’s bachelor collection “Electric sheep and leaking linden” consists of quirky cuts, dark prints and lots of dystopia. The designer addressed the future in the process of creating his collection, and according to Donna Harraway (Cyborg Manifesto, 1985) and Rosi Braidotti (Posthumanism, 2013), the boundary between the natural and the artificial is dissolved in the posthuman to evoke the wearer with achronistic citations to the timeless to make creature. His interpretation shows up in an upcycled look pierced with holes, with giant headgear or props like a stuffed shopping trolley or something resembling a car spoiler.
Nele Westerkowsky – FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY
The “FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY” collection draws everyone’s attention and reminds us of a difficult time that we recently got through. Nele Westerkowsky works with organic textures and surface manipulation for her graduation collection. Apocalyptic looks emerge, possibly resembling microscopic bacteria. Especially the color combination of neon green and dark blue as well as two hoods that keep the faces anonymous make the subject clear. The abstractness of microscopy is reflected here.
Greta Linkogel – Sincerity Is Scary And Not Enough
Greta Linkogel’s master collection “Sincerity Is Scary And Not Enough” is all regarding the interplay of costume, kitsch and non-places. Elegant, classic clothing now looks exceptional thanks to the feathers as details. What at first glance looks like everyday clothing gets a touch of kitsch here in the form of decorative colorful feathers and modern details such as mesh, cut-outs or zippers that end at the navel. The designer uses kitsch to escape from reality. spatial world and reality as well as irony and seriousness characterize the collection.
Nastassia Volkus – play soft
The master collection “play soft” consists of five items of clothing and the theme of the games as the title already suggests. Because they are convertible and specifically designed to play. Designer Nastassia Volkus chose the famous games hide and seek, twister, labyrinth, puzzle and dragon. In addition, she worked exclusively with recycled materials, leftovers and sustainable fabrics and trimmings for the collection. Vegetable colors have also been used for the prints in order to create playful clothing that is as sustainable as possible.
Margarita Volkov – HERE THE PLEASURE
The final collection “ICI LE PLAISIR” is regarding the fun of expressing different strong personalities. High quality fabrics come together with the ubiquitous punk culture. Rebellious and creative, we get an impression of crocheted upcycling fashion and everything that Margarita Volkov focused on during her studies. She chose to focus primarily on developing her own textiles and textures from upcycled materials. Weaving and knitting techniques as well as fabric dyeing with home-made vegetable dyes are also part of her fashion design passions.
Natascha Domino – The Dreamers
Natascha Domino’s bachelor collection entitled The Dreamers refers to the 934 inspired story by Danish author Karen Blixen of the same name. Set in the 19th century, it is regarding an opera singer who, following losing her voice, decides to fake her own death and never be just one person once more, always dressing up as different characters. And so every look is dedicated to the female protagonist. Contemporary materials and costume-like patterns characterize the collection. Stripes and argyle patterns in particular shine here and are taken up by almost historical forms.
Kilian Landwehr – La Linea Bianca
Masters graduate Kilian Landwehr impresses viewers with his graduation collection called “La Linea Bianca”. The men’s collection is clearly inspired by the hand-drawn line, which is the connecting element between fashion and the body. For the young designer, it represents the inexhaustible source of inspiration. At the end, seven perfect looks can be seen on the catwalk, which are reminiscent of classic men’s sleepwear, especially due to the sleep masks. Wide oversize cuts and lovely details give the collection a modern touch. The accessories and bags shown are by David Quast.
Sabina Schimanowski – Luxtra
The eye-catching final collection entitled Luxtra is Sabina Schimanowski’s interpretation of luxury and trash, as well as female stereotypes. She reminds us of the quintessential diva, and Beyonce’s background soundtrack confirms that notion. Clichés and status symbols of the luxury world are deliberately picked up here. The bizarre designs consist exclusively of used resources and the young designer wants to represent a contrast to the unfortunately famous fashion culture. This collection definitely sticks in viewers’ minds as it is playful and very provocative.
Laura Gerte – I diffuse my limitations therefore I meet myself
Among the graduates are several designers that we already know. Designer Laura Gerte, who already demonstrated her talent during the MBFW Fashion Week in autumn 2022, once once more impressed with dramatic cuts and rather feminine silhouettes. The Master’s graduate calls her final collection “I diffuse my limitations therefore I meet myself” and seems to express herself confidently with a red, grey, beige and green color palette and strong black lines. Her signature pieces are once once more unmistakable and just scream for Laura Gerte.
Author: – Photos: KOWA-Berlin
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