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DMI Fashion Days: Reconciling appearance and reality in fashion

"Authenticity is the currency of the moment," said Carl Tillessen at the beginning of his zeitgeist analysis for the German Fashion Institute (DMI) for the autumn/winter 2027 season. The word authenticity may have long been dismissed as an empty phrase. It usually only surfaced in marketing contexts or in connection with influencers, but it is...

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Berlin's fetish fashion breaks out of the club

On each of his visits to Berlin, Ronen Shaham feels the rush of freedom that sees the computer engineer from Los Angeles ditch his workwear for something more relaxed: a lace shirt, studded necklace and a side-split skirt. Known throughout the world for their extravagance, Berlin's clubs have fostered a taboo-free style, inspired by fetishism,...

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A shift in fashion: SS24 will be wild and unrestrained

Are you ready to sin? Spring/summer 2024 is all about indulgence. Fashion designers show hardly any restraint in their creations and stop at no taboo. During its most recent trend seminar, the Deutsches Mode-Institut (DMI) predicted this shift and the ways in which it will be expressed visually. ”Often trends are merely new variations and...

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The future of colour trend forecasting

Will it be possible in the future to determine colour trends not only by evaluating search engines and sales figures, but also on the basis of ‘Big Data’? This is exactly what an international team of programmers has been working on for a year. The goal is to recognise and map emerging trends through an algorithmic analysis of fashion. The first...