Berlin Fashion Week starts on Tuesday, the 3rd of July, and you’ll be better prepared! To help you find all the green hotspots, we have sorted out the green brands, showrooms and events in the city.. you will find it underneath.. everything you need to navigate green and glamorous through the days and nights of…
Impressum
Theme Beyond Fashion Summit 2012: HYPERNATURE
Behind the scenes, our team is full steam preparing the Beyond Fashion Summit 2012. Soon more details will be revealed, so stay tuned. One thing we can already tell you: the theme of this years Summit: HYPERNATURE. Beyond Fashion Summit 2012 is going to be all about innovation in fashion, and the interaction of ecology…
People Tree
“For every beautiful garment People Tree makes, there’s an equally beautiful change happening somewhere in the world.” People Tree unterstützt aktiv über 50 Fairtrade-Gruppen in 8 Entwicklungsländern. Diese Partner decken mit ihrer Produktion ein großes Portfolio ab, das von Hand gefertigtem Schmuck über handgestrickte Pullover bis hin zu handgewebten Kleidern reicht. People Tree setzt auf…
Call for a Fur Free Fashion Week
Over 100 dutch fashion designers, stylists, fashion magazines, photographers and celebrities have called the direction of the Amsterdam Fashion Week in an open letter to choose for a fur free fashion week. They believe that facilitating fur free shows is a logical choice for innovation, sustainability and animal welfare. The Amsterdam Fashion Week has a…
Germany’s first ShirtMob
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…
HubbaBubba Street Art
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…
Fashion is bad for your health
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…
Nuna ice – Form follows taste
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…
Powerfoods & fresh looks: BioFach revisited
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…
Studio JUX wins Green Fashion Competition
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…