A fashionable 83-year-old in Berlin has gained international fame after an Australian photographer started a Tumblr blog called '<a href="http://alioutfit.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">What Ali Wore</a>' showcasing his sartorial splendor. Ali is The Local's German of the Week.
Berlin-based online shoe shop Zalando bagged this week the biggest ever investment to be put into a German start-up. A Swedish investor said on Friday that it had spent nearly €300 million on shares in the company.
German fashion house Jil Sander has launched a men’s hand bag which is not only designed to look like an ordinary brown paper bag – it is a brown paper bag. But at a price of €190, throwing it away after one use would be a mistake.
Top German designer Karl Lagerfeld - notorious for making catty comments on the appearance of other celebrities - has gone relatively easy on Chancellor Angela Merkel, even complimenting her “beautiful blue eyes.”
While the fashion world's elite strut their stuff in Berlin Fashion Week, some who give the German capital its reputation for edgy design are struggling. One designer told <b>Jessica Ware</b> the fashion scene was “massively underfunded”.
Berlin Fashion Week kicks off on Tuesday, with an array of shows throughout the city during the week, runway shows at the Brandenburg Gate and the three-day Bread and Butter trade fair at Tempelhof Airport.
The line between food and fashion has been well and truly blurred in a new exhibition at Berlin's Museum for Communication which is displaying portraits of models wearing outfits made entirely of food.
In his last public appearance, Steve Jobs wore a sweater by exclusive Berlin label Von Rosen. Since his death earlier this month, the company has seen a huge rush in sales of the €420-cashmere turtleneck.
A Hannover microbiologist and fashion designer is releasing a new clothing line with a twist: the clothes are partly created from powdered milk - aiding skincare.
Fashion firm Hugo Boss, long rumoured to be Adolf Hitler’s favourite tailor, has published a report on its less than laudable record during the Third Reich.
As the Bundesliga, Germany's top football league, kicks off its season, the College of Media Design (MD.H) announced the results of its own annual completion: the football jersey championships. So who has Germany's most stylish jersey? 1 FC-NĂĽrnberg.
The career of the latest winner of Heidi Klum's “Germany’s Next Top Model” television show is in jeopardy after reports that her modelling management agency has terminated her contract.
Notoriously snarky German couturier Karl Lagerfeld hailed Kate Middleton's royal wedding dress Friday, describing the Alexander McQueen and Sarah Burton gown as "elegant and chic."
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy slicks back his locks to explore the nation’s hairstyle fetishes.
Former supermodel Nadja Auermann has reportedly criticised the trend to underage models in the fashion world, saying the situation was creating a beauty ideal flirting with paedophilia.
As Berlin’s Fashion Week hits full swing, The Local’s <b>Ruth Michaelson</b> tries to parse the importance of haute couture in Germany’s famously “poor but sexy” capital.
German sports apparel giant Adidas said Monday it hoped to win sales of more than €1 billion with a new brand aimed at the lucrative 12 to 19-year-old market that is already being launched in Asia.
The Local’s series <b>Made in Germany</b> presents the best the country has to offer, including the knives from Solingen’s <b>Zwilling J.A. Henckels</b>.
The grime and grit of Berlin’s U-Bahn metro may not seem very glamorous. But this month a dozen designer-model teams will take inspiration from their favourite underground stations for the city's first fashion show in beauty pageant form. Who will become Miss U-Bahn 2010?
The Thor Steinar clothing label, popular among neo-Nazis, has all but lost its case against left-wing satirical label “Storch Heinar” after a Nuremberg judge warned late Wednesday that much of the complaint was unfounded.
Berlin might not be able to compete with fashion centres like Paris, London and New York, but as Emma Duester reports, some at the city’s Fashion Week are hoping to make the industry a little bit greener.
