Eröffnungsparty ESSENS KREATIVE KLASSE in der Zollverein Kohlenwäsche

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Den Auftakt zum diesjährigen Festival ESSENS KREATIVE KLASSE machte am 16. Oktober 2008 das DESIGNFRÜHSTÜCK, bei dem es sich neben Kulinarischem vor allen Dingen um das Thema "Ideenschutz durch Design" ging. Anschließend lud der Zollverein Business.Service zu der Unternehmenskonferenz „creative industries - made by design" mit hochkarätigen Industrievertretern als Referenten sowie Prof. Dieter Gorny, dem Schirmherr des Festivals und Künstlerischen Direktor der Kulturhauptstadt Europas RUHR.2010 ein.

Kiss by Mike Kilo

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SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH is the first channel to showcase emerging and established art in the TV medium. The viewer‘s screen becomes a terminal for an ever changing palette that converges art and entertainment, culture and contemporary attention span. Launched in Germany, the network has been exclusively diffusing emerging and established video art since 2006. It just arrived on the French TV cable via «Free», October 5th, 2008. The Launch Party took place at Hotel Particulier in Montmartre, Paris which is the first hotel to provide this new artistic TV experience in every room. SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH has been presented at the ART.FAIR 21, Cologne and participates at the Digital & Video Art Fair Paris 2008 from October 24 until October 27.

Designer Kostas Murkudis / Photo courtesy Kostas Murkudis

The "M" collection from Kostas Murkudis demonstrates the appeal of fusing classic masculinity with outstanding femininity, allowing you to enjoy masculine vitality, movement and power. The collection itself is cool and reflective, curious and spirited. The inescapability of interaction is the aim.

Designer Marcel Ostertag, Winner of the KARSTADT NEW GENERATION AWARD Spring/Summer 2009 / Photo: Oliver Rauh, courtesy Karstadt New Generation Award

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Two weeks after being in Barcelona for the BREAD & BUTTER the movers and shakers of the fashion world now converge in Berlin for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. With a successful start in 2007, this July eighteen designers like Unrath & Strano, Vivienne Westwood with Anglomania, Kostas Murkudis with his collection M by Kostas Murkudis, Basso & Brooke, Sisi Wasabi or Susanne Wiebe present their latest collections against the historical backdrop of Bebelplatz or in some of Berlin's most stunning offsite locations.

From the beginning one of the highlights of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin is the Karstadt New Generation Award.

Collection by Basso & Brooke / Courtesy Basso & Brooke

Friday morning started with an absolutely highlight and a fireworks of coloures! Basso & Brooke showcased on this Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week a retroperspective of their last four years. The label is founded by the English Christopher Brooke, 34, a fashion graduate of the renowned Central Saint Martins and the 29-years-old Bruno Basso, a Brazilian Graphic Designer. Basso & Brooke are the winners of the prestigious London’s Fashion Fringe 2004 Award.

After winning the award in 2004, Basso & Brooke presented their first on-schedule show at London Fashion Week entitled The Succubus and Other Tales. If the Fashion Fringe collection represented sexual freedom, AW 05 was its counterpoint. Using mediaeval imagery and regal graphics against soft drapery and streamlined tailoring, Succubus evoked repressed erocticism.