Fashion

You are currently browsing the archive for the Fashion category.

Bread & Butter, Toast & Jam

18. Januar 2012 in Berlin, Events, Fashion by Paul

toast and jam

So the fashion world is in town again, for the Berlin Fashion Week – with the former Tempelhof Airport being the location for Bread & Butter. Our mates from the States Red Wing Shoes are there, but there are plenty of other things going on Berlin this week that are worth checking out as well.

One such event, which we like for its tongue in cheek title, is Toast & Jam, Berlin’s first vintage fashion market that is being held just down the road from Tempelhof and which is completely open to the public. Here’s some details:

From January 19-21, 2012, Exberliner Magazine and Nowkoelln Flowmarkt will be hosting a Vintage Market in C-Club, Berlin-Tempelhof. For three days, around 30 selected, high-quality vintage fashion vendors from around Germany and Europe will present their wares in the historical C-Club opposite Tempelhof Airport – location of the massive Bread and Butter fashion fair. During the event, we will be organizing a fashion floorshow involving select vintage threads.

The three-day event ends January 21, with a massive closing party featuring DJs, bands and performers to match. We hope to see you there!

We hope that everyone who is in town for reasons of fashion & style have a great time in Berlin and for those of you who are staying with us at the Circus, as always, come and talk to us if you need any help or information about the multitude of things going on in the city this week.

Dandy of the Grotesque at Fabisch

12. Juli 2011 in Art, Berlin, Circus Hotel, Design, Fabisch, Fashion, Stuff We Like by Paul

dandy1

We have a new installation in our Restaurant Fabisch, that showcases not only the talents of a men’s fashion designer who works just around the corner from the Circus, but also reflects the history of the building and the naming of the restaurant itself.

The new installation comes from Dandy of the Grotesque, a fashion atelier on Gormannstrasse, just a short walk from Rosenthaler Platz. Their name comes from the contradiction between the idea of the “Dandy” and the suggestion of an overweening concern with fashion, together with the “Grotesque” which, in a sense, perhaps implies the opposite. In the words of founder and creative director Itamar Zechoval, “Together they paint a portrait a of a man who is reluctantly fashionable.”

Itamar himself left his home country of Israel at the age of 21 to study fashion design in Milan where he worked for 10 years. He moved to Berlin in 2010 to open the new atelier and bring to the German capital his theatrical, dramatic and ironic creative approach that has developed through his experiences as designer, art director and personal createur for performing artists, like Marilyn Manson. With his made-to-measure men’s garments label he creates a dialogue between the initial design inspiration and the character who is wearing his garments and vice versa.

dandy2

dandy3

The Fabisch Story

In the early decades of the 20th Century, Rosenthaler Strasse 1 was the home of Phillip Fabisch’s men’s clothing store. Before opening The Circus Hotel we had the support of the Centre Judaicum who helped us research the story of the family, which not only helped us understand better the history of the building and our neighbourhood, but also the dark aspects of Berlin’s history as members of the Fabisch family were victims of the Nazi terror. You can read more about the Fabisch story on the company page of our website.