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If you’re visiting Berlin soon or already over here you get the chance to take some fashion items back home at a reduced price.

They call it “soldismisses” which means up to 30% discount on up to date items of the current spring/summer collection.

Buy fashion and accessoires at a reduced price. Rember - the more you buy, the higher the savings. In the end your plane ticket to Berlin might be for free…

Sounds reasonable - find out at Galeries Lafayette!

On the 7th of June FASHION FLASH MOB O8 hit Toronto.

The event powered by FASHION Magazine, in partnership with Luminato brought some fashionate moment to the heart of the city - as we previously reported.

Now FASHION Magazine has put picutures and video of the event online.

Check out the pictures over here and the video back here.

Our german fashion hero Karl Lagerfeld now stars in an ad campaign to promote road safety in france.

“It’s yellow, ugly, doesn’t match other clothes, but it can save lifes!” is what King Karl says when doing some advertising for a new campaign of the french government.

Starting in July, you will have a signal vest in your car - otherwise you have to pay 135 Euros if police catches you without.

Karl Lagerfeld cares about your life. We say: thumbs up!

Queer Berlin is calling you! is the motto of this year’s gay/lesbian city party in Berlin. During the event something special for the electro heads is coming up.

Besides of the amazing event for the gay and lesbian community, the guys of Ostgut Ton are doing a showcase from 3 to 11 pm on saturday at the Connection stage. One of the reasons for this great lineup might be the Fete de la Musique which is also taking place on saturday.

Check out the Berghain/Panoramabar people during some hell of a party!

3pm ND Baumecker
4.30pm Boris
6pm Tama Sumo
8pm Ben Klock & Marcel Dettmann
till 11pm

If you can’t be there we’ll let you become part of the party with our upcoming report which we plan to turn into some multimedia happening with slight chance of a live stream (if there is any wifi connection around)

For some info on the event browse here.

On tuesday Will Smith and Charlize Theron visited Berlin for the german premiere of their latest Sony Pictures movie Hancock.

During all the interviews one reporter introduced Will to the music of the most famous german band Modern Talking.

If you know their music this little video will make you RTFLMAO which was Roman’s reaction while being on the scene for Berlinista.

Check out the whole report including pictures and 4 minutes of video impressions from the premiere right here. The complete video can be seen as well over at BERLINISTA.tv.

With the next Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin coming up in a month from now we are currently doing some cleaning up.

In July we’ll again be at the main spots of Berlin Fashion Week. About a year ago we were already there reporting, taking pictures, networking and stuff.

Besides of all those activities we even took some small amount of video to capture some of the atmosphere that you can check out in the video below.

If the mobile phone gods, qik, yahoo live and ustream are a little supportive we are coming up with something very special during the upcoming fashion week…

Never heard about them (to be honest), but thanks’ to Melvin Bronques i now discovered some great new band.

With some great mixuture of sythetisized sounds, singing and drumming with a non electronic drumset “MY PEOPLE” really rock the house as you can see in the video.

(VIA LastNight’sParty)

Don’t they look comfy and sexy (sort of)?

PingMag just reported about a new trend in Japanese underwear fashion.

The traditional men’s underwear got rediscovered and now comes in new designs and colors. They even have models for the ladies now!

(VIA PingMag)

Over the last two decades Detroit got well known all over the world for it’s role in Techno music.

But before Techno Detroit was Motown city and is a source for great music of many genres.

We just received the friend request by a great Funk/Soul/Jazz band from the city of steel that we strongly advise you to check out right here.

Whilst visiting their page to listen to their great stuff you might wanna stop by at our home on MySpace.

By far the most beautiful thing i’ve seen in a long time!

Actually since the release of the iPhone.

Want it now!!!

The bad and most sad news of the week was that Yves Saint Laurent is dead.

On thursday the funeral took place in Paris for the man who started his outstanding fashion career at Dior after he got self employed few years later and started a fashion legend. Everybody who is of some importance in fashion attended the funeral - with one exception.

Karl Lagerfeld who was out of town for business reasons couldn’t be there but showed his perfect style with a bouquet of roses and other white flowers.

Adieu Yves!

We knew it all the time!

All along those 15 weeks of this year’s edition of Germany’s Next Topmodel by Heidi Klum, Jennifer - the tall blond 17 year old girl was our favorite.

Having all those “ingredients” a girl must have if she wants to compete in the international fashion business it was no surprise that Jennifer aka Jenni made it in the end.

A huge hooray from the BERLINISTA crew goes out to Jennifer.

Like to read more about tonight’s final show - check out our article.

What would happen if the busiest hub of downtown Toronto froze for five minutes?

Find out on Saturday June 7, 2008 as FASHION Magazine, in partnership with Luminato, presents FASHION Flash Mob 08.

Participants of all ages are invited to strike a pose and be part of art, along side models from Elite Toronto.

With more than 860,000 people passing the corner of Yonge and Dundas each day, the interaction between frozen subjects and observers will create a fascinating spectacle.

Ceri Marsh, Editor-in-Chief, FASHION Magazine, will be on hand to speak about the publication’s commitment to Luminato and Canadian arts and culture.

Read more in the fashion section of BERLINISTA.

Just a day ago DJ Spinna from Brooklyn/NYC happened to perform in Tokyo/Japan and a good friend of ours happened to be there as well…

Eelco who is currently travelling Japan sends his daily reports to friends and family. Read what he experienced last night:

“...i think annemarie and guus still remember carl craig in berlin in 2000 at no ufo. most of my old friends for sure remember laurent garnier in nighttown that same year. killer nights. well i just added another one. spinna 2008 in tokyo. he was a bomb of energy. unstoppable. a nuclear explosion. this guy really knows how to party. and he himself does it whilst playing the set. house detroit acid club jazz soul funk hip hop are the main genres that came by. all seeming to connect. and he loves percussion. those were the mixes that took about 10 minutes from the beginning till the end. the rest was a wirlpool of records comming by. he plays final scratch that is digital turntabling. no vinyl. although he had some vinyl but not much. so i think final scratch if you use it the right way can be perfect. again a dj that played all night long. he started at 11 and ended at 8....”

Guess Eelco encountered one of those rare nights… Check out DJ Spilla on MySpace

An exhibition featuring the art of Francesco D’ Isa and Ida Belogi is going to take place at ZERO project in Berlin.

Pornsaints.org is the art side of porn and the porn side of art. It is an artistic approach to porn, a pornographic approach to art, a pornoartistic approach to religion. They are a pornart community, a new wave from internet’s gutters, raising to consecrate underground stars.

Every porn star and pornbishop (=artists) are chosen for their artistic merits, not only for fame: At pornsaints.org they have both emerging and established artists (and porn stars). They have no medium boundaries: they host digital artists and traditional ones, and a wide selection of styles.

To learn more about their philosophical background, read the Pornsaints essay here:http://church.pornsaints.org/pornsaint-essay.

ZERO.project is a meeting place, exchange platform and a Gallery in Berlin with a focus point on Eastern Europe. At the same time ZERO is a network and a journalist office. The third area of interest is architecture, with specialisation environmental design.

ZERO is a neutral start-point, a beginning of creating something new, a cooperation to bring together both, the Eastern and the Western European cultures.

An exhibition featuring the art of Francesco D’ Isa and Ida Belogi Plus the art of: Marguerite Sauvage, Courtney James, Kristal Blanco
Dj set by Madame Wish

This is the page dedicated to the show: http://church.pornsaints.org/pornsaints-art-exhibition-1

This art show will be in Berlin (Germany) from 14.06.2008, h. 20.00 @ Galerie Zero - Köpenicker Strasse 4 - 10997 Berlin - http://www.zero-project.org