If the idea of Berlin Fashion Week has given you that icky feeling in the bottom of your stomach that you sometimes get when you smell old milk, then what you need more than a stiff drink (and the strength of will to not punch the next person you hear blagging on about bread & butter) is an invite that actually has some real and consequential cultural merit. Something like this.
New on the Berlin calendar, and hopefully here to stay, Unhinged Festival makes a stab at the whole multi-disciplinary art and music festival thing, but does a really good job of it and hosts it at the (always fun) SO36.
Leading the live music charge they’ve got Quixote (interview) (rock/blues, UK), Camera (previously) (experimental guerilla rock, DE), Ysan Roche (pop, DE), Sandy Bird (previously) (DE), Sun and the Wolf (previously, interview) (US), and RayMann (AUS).
Pablo Mercado, Cristina Gomez, Cat Robertson, Kevin Ryan, Jasmine Poole plus a bunch of other artists, un-sponsored by Audi although otherwise extremely talented, will all be showing their works in various mediums with the Berlin photography scene represented by Olga Bacznynska, Alex Gold and Anna Schwartz.
There’ll also be a fashion show of some description, which we’re quite happy about, despite all the stuff we’ve said above, but this one will be presenting fashion as a part of popular culture rather than as popular culture itself, which is just how it should be.
