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Stephan Pelger

"My source of inspiration is life itself. Everything inspires me, a person, an object, a sunny day or a bitterly cold night, absolutely everything.”

Stephan Pelger was born in Brasov, Romania, and studied at the Fashion Institute in Vienna, where his creative talent was discovered early. After finishing his studies, Stephan worked for the brands Missoni, Schella Kann and Di Vercallo Cashmere. In 2004 Stephan decided to return to Romania in order to start building up his own brand. Only one year later he introduced his first collection at the Romanian Fashion Week where he was praised and recognized by the critics. This was the beginning of a beautiful career. Now Stephan Pelger is a well-known high profile brand present on the national and international fashion market. His creations are designed for self-confident, modern, young women who set value on taste, style and elegance.

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Anja Gockel

Anja Gockel is a designer with all her heart. Already as a child she was fascinated by art and painted every day. After studying at the world-famous fashion school Central St. Martins in London, she launched her label anja gockel – london in 1996. For love she returned back to her home town Mainz in 1996. Numerous press reports celebrate the label as creative and exceptional and cause international popularity. With her friendly enthusiasm Anja Gockel built a highly motivated creative team that has written a success story from the start. Anja Gockel knows about the female problem areas and the social pressure to the pursuit of the ideal. The collection is to prepare women for their daily lives and enhance their beauty. As a mother of four children, creative designer and businesswoman, it is important to her, to make designer fashion portable.
With ease and sophistication Anja Gockel succeeds in emphasizing the personality of her customers with masterful drapery, shapes and colors. Anja Gockel manages to establish femininity as a counterweight to the growing delusion of being skinny. She makes her models with conviction in sizes up from XS/34 to XXL/48. The collection of Anja Gockel is especially well known for her imaginative prints and high quality materials.

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FRANZISKA MICHAEL

Franziska Michael is a Berlin based Fashion designer. She graduated from Esmod Berlin International University of Art for Fashion in 2009 before setting up her label. In 2010 her graduate collection was awarded for the most creative collection by “Walk of Fashion Berlin”. Since then the young designer works and creates in her studio in Kreuzberg.
Franziska Michael is intrigued by opposites and combines contrasts in her collections, aiming to achieve the perfect balance in each design. Her psychedelic prints quickly became her signature look. In New York she presented her Spring/Summer collection for the first time.

information and photos thanks to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

KILIAN KERNER

Kilian Kerner (1979), was born and raised in Cologne. Before founding the label KILIAN KERNER in 2004 he studied drama in Cologne and Berlin between 2000 and 2003. Due to his success in the past Kilian Kerner was able to expand and develop his label. The premium line KILIAN KERNER as well as the diffusion line Kilian Kerner Senses are both available in fourteen countries worldwide, e.g. at Apropos in Köln/Düsseldorf, Tessabit in Italy, Fenwick and House of Fraser in UK and the KILIAN KERNER stores in Berlin and Hamburg. In the meantime there have been numerous celebrities supporting KILIAN KERNER: Actresses like Karoline Herfurth and Alina Levshin, famous models such as Eva Padberg and Karolína Kurková, actor Tom Schilling and musician Tim Bendzko – are fond of Kilian Kerner’s designs.

ADELINA IVAN

Adelina Ivan is a Bucharest based women’s ready-to-wear limited edition clothing line, produced entirely in-house by hand. The focus behind the collections is on the black and white theme and undisclosed details, hand crafted techniques on futuristic shapes and fabrics. The label tells a story about revealing the small world within, hence the conceptual and harmonic collections and the devotion to keeping things simple and natural. Born in Bucharest, Adelina Ivan won the 2011 F&B award – designer of the year from fashionandbeauty.ro. With a BFA in design from the Art Institute of Bucharest, she launched her label in 2008. The label’s collections have been shown at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin in July 2012 and also during the Berlin Fashion Show at Premium, Who’s Next Paris, The Train New York and Weareurope Tokio.

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ANDRA CLITAN

Andra Clitan was born in Baia Mare, Romania in 1983. She grew up and studied in her hometown until 2002, when she decided to move to Cluj-Napoca to study at the University of Art and Design. She started her career by specializing in textiles, with a Major in Fashion Design and a Minor in Printing. Later on, she studied at L’Ecole Superieure des Artes Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France (2004) and in 2008 she was granted a scholarship at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design London. Reference points in her career were: Romanian Fashion Week Iasi (2006-2008), Summer Fashion Week by Fashion TV (2007), The Pasarela Festival (2009) by French Embassy Bucharest, Romanian Fashion Week (2010).

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information and photos thanks to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin

PERRET SCHAAD

                           

Since 2009, the design duo PERRET SCHAAD shows its passion to create clear and original silhouettes using fine materials and traditional handcraft to meet a contemporary design vision. PERRET SCHAAD has developed collections enwrought with playful ambiguity. Its design aesthetic is both strict and poetic, its fabrics both innovative and precious, its colors, soft yet radical. The semi-sculptural silhouettes designed by the Berlin-based duo mix structure and fluidity. The result is a complex vision of beauty, freedom and independence. The PERRET SCHAAD look is discreet, feminine and definitively modern.

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MARC STONE

                       

The story of Marc Stone started in Zurich in the multicultural district circle four. The city is in the middle of the well renowned fashion metropolis Paris and Milan. Today Marc Stone is an international design team based in Zurich, speaking the same language. Since 2011 the collection is presented in Paris, Milan, Berlin and New York.

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UBI SUNT

                     

UBI SUNT consists of two designers Aidin Sanati and Moa Wikman. They met while working at a design studio in London. Aidin Sanati is a Paris born persian raised in Sweden. Previous to his design education in London Aidin has studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and history of art at Stockholm University. Moa Wikman is raised and born in Härnösand in north of Sweden and has a background in pattern cutting and fashion design before completing her fashion degree at London College of Fashion.

UBI SUNT is a cutting-edge clothing concept that has its base in Sweden. The most conceptual pieces of the collection will invite you to experience a subtile journey and an intimate relationship between the wearer and the garment that is to appear and reappear over time. All pieces are produced in Sweden

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information and photos thanks to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin