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text Marlene Charissé photos JULIAN MARTINI
BOBBY KOLADE After his last show at the famous underground club Berghain, BOBBY KOLADE now presented his Spring/Summer collection 2016 for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin in “Sophiensälen” in Berlin-Mitte. Usually, the premise functions as a theater and so all the guests had to sit in the theater ranks while the photographers took pictures from the back of the stage. Silver tinsel was scattered all over the black floor. Then the models walked on a zigzag trail across the stage. The collection is colorful and diverse just as one would expect from BOBBY KOLADE. Bright yellow, navy blue, green, wine red, orange and cream white are paired with shiny silver. He uses his typical fabric, made from tree bark, and combines it with wool, silver fabric and cotton materials. Blouses provided with laser cuts and only one sleeve, are open on the back and held by a golden ribbon. He let the top of an overall fall down and used the armholes as pockets. Suddenly, in the middle of the show, the lights went down. A model completely shrouded by a transparent dark blue veil stood in the spotlight. -88-
Particularly striking is the fusion of a silver jumpsuit and a bright blue blazer. Both trouser legs, but only one side of the upper part, are made like an overall. The other side of the upper part merges into a blue blazer. The shoes are reminiscent of Maison Margiela boots in silver and white with quadrangular broad heels. As jewelry the models wore a shiny convex lens-shaped pendant hanging on a golden ring around their neck. Their hair was partly braided in cornrows incorporating colorful ribbons and partly creped. As eye makeup BOBBY KOLLADE decorated his models with self-adhesive tattoos, which matched the silver tinsel. BOBBY KOLADE is one of the most promising fashion designers in German fashion. His awareness of sustainable and fair manufacturing processes and this year's show confirm this once again. At the end of the show all the models threw silver tinsel in the air like the celebration of a great victory with BOBBY KOLADE as their great victor.