There’s no other way of putting it: health is in. Never before has the definition of beauty been as closely linked to a healthy lifestyle as it is today. We are snugly wrapped in a blanket trend of wellbeing: healthy diets, spiritually enhanced sports disciplines, health trips to far flung places, the best (alternative) medical care, and, yes, also fashion. Nobody has to accept deformed [...] More
Next week Esther Perbandt will present her Autumn/Winter Collection 2012 at Capsule Berlin. What you can look forward to is a collection kept completely in black with recyclable chains and deconstructed tartan that reminds of elegant aesthetics in old Hitchcock movies. 60 % of the fabrics used for the sample collection are sustainable and with the final collection she aims to increase that amount even more. The [...] More
About ten days to go, and then it’s Berlin Fashion Week again… We recommend you bring your walking shoes this time, as it seems there will be more fairs than ever and the green brands are spread on many of them. Consider it a challenge to catch as many venues as possible.. We have counted over 120 green fashion brands that present themselves at the [...] More
Dear Readers We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a good start into the year 2012. We want to say thank you for an exciting year with a lot of changes and developments, thanks for your support and for working towards the same goal – a more sustainable world. We hope to see you all again next year, at the latest during the Beyond [...] More
The German word ‘Froh’ translates to happy, pleased, glad and so on … and it’s safe to say that this is one lifestyle magazine that well and truly does what it says on the tin – fulfilling readers’ every psychological need with beautiful images, interesting articles, sustainable living concepts and a touch of spirituality. The FROH! Magazine is released three times a year and every [...] More
The first Beyond Fashion Summit is behind us. The Beyond team and our many helping hands have come out of the other side and are now looking back on a successful event that saw around 20 speakers inform and inspire more than 100 participants. In cooperation with the Christian Initiative Romero in the rooms of the Esmod Art School, we achieved our mission: the creation [...] More
“You get what you see!” with her special look, her Berlin sassy slang and her constant wilful style Esther Perbandt is nothing else but distinctive. As seasons change in fashion, the designer stays true to her personal style and lives up to it with all the trimmings, so that her persona could have originated from her own lookbook: an androgynous silhouette is blurred with deconstructed [...] More
Over the last couple of days a verbal sparring took place between us in our office over our desks, in our mails even in our dreams. Which name is the biggest, which topic the most important? Misericordia, Matilda Lee, Opening Reception, esthetics, Michelberger Hotel, Panel, Eckbert Zwo, Görlitzer Park just to name a few. All those are part of the big picture; the big, [...] More
Text by Fredericke Winkler. In Zeiten von Internet, chinesischen Hochleistungsproduktionen und preisgesteuerten Konsumentscheidungen kämpfen Marken gegen nahezu identische Kopien. Bei Millionen seelenloser Waren, die auf kurzem Wege und unschlagbar billig auf den Markt geworfen werden, scheinen sie kaum eine Chance zu haben, ihre Produkthoheit zu wahren. Die einzige Lösung, um aus diesem Teufelskreis auszubrechen, ist, sich weniger um vermeintliche Gerechtigkeit zu bemühen als sich auf [...] More
To all that did not hear about it yet: the GREENshowroom now belongs to Messe Frankfurt GmbH. For the rest, everything that makes GREENshowroom what it is continues to be: founders Jana Keller and Magdalena Schaffrin continue to manage the Exhibition in the Berlin Hotel Adlon. From the 6th until the 8th of July 2011, buyers can order eco luxury again! Fashion, accessories and cosmetics [...] More
What to do with worn T-shirts, that accompanied you in various living situation, but are not of any function for you anymore? That’s right – You can exchange them during Germany’s first ShirtMob! Next Friday, the 27th of April a huge shirt swapping action will take place at Berlin Alexanderplatz. Initiated by Beyond Berlin and ReShirt this event presents an alternative Recycling concept that will [...] More
Old chewing gum that gets stuck on the sidewalks is pretty hard to be removed. Dropped unconsciously, these white spots form an uneven pattern throughout our cities. It costs quite some money to clean the streets from unwanted gum each year. Ben Wilson had a better idea. The English wood carver and street artist developed a sort of Make-up concept for that issue. Very patiently he [...] More
Among TED‘s winners in the category Ads worth spreading I found the animation video ‘Back to the start’ particularly inspiring. In this creative short clip, the filmmaker Johnny Kelly presents the life of a small farmer, whose family farm becomes part of the industrial animal factory until he sees the disaster and turns the whole production back to the start. Coldplay’s The Scientistseems like a fitting soundtrack and is [...] More
Icecream meets design and transcends both. Nuna, a frozen popsicle that claims “Form follows taste” and makes one wonder: is this a piece of art, the German pavilion for the next Expo, or really just a piece of ice design that appeals to all senses? Nuna is the initiative of the host of our coworking space BCN and architect/artist Manu Kumar and Stefan Gendl from [...] More
Last week the Beyond Berlin team where home at the BioFach in Nuremberg. BioFach is the largest organic trade fair in the world, and it is always a bit overwhelming to “live” in this artificial world representing authentic organic businesses. The BioFach counts around 40.000 visitors and over 2.000 exhibitors. Meanwhile one sees many people meeting within their communities, such as we did in our [...] More
Dutch fashion brand Studio JUX have won the main price of the Green Fashion Competition! The price comes with 25.000 EUR and was handed over by dutch minister of economic affairs Verhagen. Among the guests was also crown princess Maxima. The price winners definately deserve it – we know only a few brands that create a good design and are so closely involved with their [...] More
Sustainable fashion showrooms and platforms are conquering the fashion weeks in Europe. After the recent launch of Ethical Fashion Show Berlin and MINT in Amsterdam, a presence of sustainable fashion in Copenhagen seems to be a logical development. From 2nd until 4th February the creative community ArtRebels will organize a showroom at Gallery in Copenhagen as part of Copenhagen Fashion Week. They will be showcasing a selection of designers [...] More
The Berlin Fashion Week has started! Don’t forget your rubber boots and umbrellas this time, they might be a necessary part of your outfit… In our Berlin Fashion Week Eco Guide we have listed all brands and events at the Berlin Fashion Week for you. Off course we are excited to check out the debuting Ethical Fashion Show. They have invited for a get together on Wednesday [...] More
A few days ago, the German department of the clean clothes campaign published a report, stating that they have found strong violations of working rights by the textile producers for the German discounters Lidl, Aldi and Kik. The campaign had a strong respond in the German press, with coverage in media such as ARD, Spiegel,Sueddeutsche and Handelsblatt. After earlier publications about their labor circumstances, Lidl and Kik promised [...] More
Next week Esther Perbandt will present her Autumn/Winter Collection 2012 at Capsule Berlin. What you can look forward to is a collection kept completely in black with recyclable chains and deconstructed tartan that reminds of elegant aesthetics in old Hitchcock movies. 60 % of the fabrics used for the sample collection are sustainable and with the final collection she aims to increase that amount even more. The [...] More