The Berlin Fashion Week begins on Wednesday as the German capital transforms itself into a giant catwalk for designers, models and fashion industry insiders for the next few days. But plenty of the events are also open to the public.
The German edition of fashion magazine Vogue has devoted its entire June edition to ageing supermodel Claudia Schiffer – adorning the cover with a naked portrait just weeks before she is expected to give birth to her third child.
A German court jailed a 26-year-old man for two years on Tuesday for trying to blackmail Cindy Crawford out of €100,000 with a photo of the former model’s young daughter gagged and bound to a chair.
Tokio Hotel lead singer Bill Kaulitz appeared on stage for a performance of a different kind this week, walking a Milan fashion show runway clad in black leather, chain link jewellery and feathers.
Despite the decidedly inelegant snow and icy temperatures that continue to bedeck Germany’s capital, more than 130,000 style-savvy visitors descended on Berlin Wednesday to trek through the 2010 Autumn/Winter Fashion Week.
A German man has tried to blackmail former supermodel Cindy Crawford out of €67,000 with a picture of Crawford’s 7-year-old daughter gagged and bound to a chair, US media reported on Friday.
The Local's series "Making it in Germany" presents <b>Bruce Darnell</b>, an American choreographer and model best known as an entertainment show judge on German television alongside Heidi Klum and Dieter Bohlen.
Legendary German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has weighed into the debate on skinny magazine models in typical flamboyant style, ridiculing the backlash against unrealistic body images.
German luxury fashion group Escada will have to file for insolvency this week due to €70.3 million in debt and falling sales, the company announced in Munich.
German pooches are getting the royal treatment as owners dish out more than €5 billion each year for pedicures, winter jackets and even wedding dresses for their dogs, the German Kennel Club (VDH) said on Monday.
In 1980s communist East Germany, nearly all clothing available was mass-produced and functional rather than fashionable, leaving little room for individuality and self-expression.
Fashion Week comes to Berlin on Wednesday to showcase spring and summer 2010 collections. While many of the shows require an invite, there are still plenty of things for the common "volk" to see.
Exberliner Magazine talks to <b>Karl-Heinz MĂĽller</b>, the man behind this week's Bread & Butter fashion show taking place at Berlin's iconic former airport Tempelhof.
A new clothing industry study revealed this week that Germans are getting taller and wider – by so much that many companies plan to adjust their sizing to accommodate “heftier” bodies.
Fashion has never been the foremost thing on Angela Merkel’s mind, and now the German chancellor has come up against the fashion firing squad again on Friday for showing up to a high-profile event in what she wears every day – her perpetual pantsuit.
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