The Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 wrapped up with a powerful final day of runway shows and conversations. From GmbH’s celebration of Berlin’s couture heritage to Martin Quad’s deconstructed tailoring, fashion took many forms. John Lawrence Sullivan explored androgyny. KOLYA BOGATYREV showcased poetic reconstruction. Selva Huygens presented circular futurism. Ritual Unions delivered an immersive performance. IMPARI unveiled a multidisciplinary relaunch. Fashion proved once again that it is a language of culture, identity, and transformation.
GMBH
The grand finale of Berlin Fashion Week’s Spring/Summer 2027 season was delivered by GmbH, the label helmed by designer duo Serhat Işık and Benjamin Huseby. With the collection “Desire Paths,” the label celebrated its 10th anniversary. It also brought 1920s Berlin back to the runway, along with its nearly forgotten couture history. To this end, the label incorporated select pieces from Julia Schwarz’s private archive, home to the largest collection of European fashion, into select looks.
Formal eveningwear, elegant dresses, and precisely tailored jackets stood in harmony with the sportswear and club-culture elements for which the label is known. Overall, GmbH presented a collection that honors the past while recontextualizing it for the present. Read more…
MARTIN QUAD
Following the Copenhagen-based label Martin Quad’s presentation of its collection in June as part of Milan Fashion Week, it has now brought it to Berlin under the title ‘Woodman Pt.2’. Designer Martin Juncker drew inspiration from the black-and-white photographs of Francesca Woodman. The concept of reflection was evident not only in the styling but also in the construction: Classic tailoring pieces were deconstructed and reassembled in unusual ways. The result was a largely monochrome collection: skirts made up of two pairs of trousers, pieces with a particularly high waistline, and one-piece outfits that are sometimes hybrids of dresses and trousers or seamlessly combine blazers and shorts. Read more…
JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
For Spring/Summer 2027, the John Lawrence Sullivan label, led by designer Arashi Yanagawa, presented the ‘Androgyny’ collection. It explores the body as a space of ambiguity and plays with gender codes: elements and materials traditionally associated with menswear or womenswear are deliberately deconstructed. Furthermore, the label drew inspiration from the Japanese art of bondage, Shibari, which encompasses themes such as discipline, restraint, and the physical act of binding the body.
This was particularly striking in blazers and coats featuring bondage-style details. Meanwhile, pieces with a reptilian look became a symbol of transformation and renewal. The overarching reference was the 1990 ‘Modern Lovers’ portrait series by the French photographer Bettina Rheims, in which the boundaries between identity and gender become blurred. Read more…
KOLYA BOGATYREV
For Spring/Summer 2027, KOLYA BOGATYREV presents “CLASSICAL REMINDER”, his second runway show as part of the official programme of Berlin Fashion Week – a reflection on transience and the quiet beauty of everyday moments.
The collection features reconstructed garments. Shirts, tailored pieces, and uniforms are taken apart and reassembled. Fragments of their original identity remain visible. This transformation turns the clothing into a vessel for memory. Strict tailoring elements meet delicate transparency and handcrafted details, causing the silhouettes to oscillate between precision and fragility. Read more…
METAMORPHOSIS
Day three of METAMORPHOSIS – dialogues about change, powered by eBay, focused on creativity, communication, and the cultural relevance of fashion professionals and their work. Sebastian Warschow (haebmau), Giorgia Aubrey (MØRNING), and Tom Barker (Highsnobiety) explored social media as a cultural ecosystem. Ann Claes (Masjien), Lara Day (eBay), and Meroda Tekin (fashionfouvintage) examined emerging formats in live shopping and audience engagement. Hannelore Knuts (Model) and Julius Poole (Casting Director) centred their conversation on visual language and representation.
Fatima Njoya (Journalist) and Blake Abbie (A Magazine Curated By) reflected on fashion as a cultural language to close the programme. Then, Scott Lipinski (Fashion Council Germany) and Carlo Bellmann (eBay) concluded the three-day event with closing remarks. They looked back on the key discussions and summarized the insights that will help shape the future of the industry.
SELVA HUYGENS
The label Selva Huygens by Cristian Huygens and Natalia Golubenko has already dressed stars such as Lady Gaga and Jared Leto, but has not yet held a runway show as part of BFW. That changes now with “Aerospatial”: the collection is inspired by 1960s space-age aesthetics, retrofuturism, and brutalist architecture.
A-line leather dresses and trapezoid mini skirts in sunset hues meet sculptural creations made from car parts, such as corsets crafted from rubber floor mats and skirts made from straps. About 90 percent of the materials used are upcycled, recycled, or deadstock fabrics. The founding duo found these objects on the streets of Berlin. This underscores the label’s circular design philosophy. Read more…
RITUAL UNIONS
On the final day of Berlin Fashion Week, Ritual Unions presents CEREMONY, its second live fashion installation as part of RAUM.Berlin. The presentation draws on traditional religious ceremonies. It moves through several rooms representing different phases such as purification, communion, and confession. These phases range from marriage vows to a room dedicated to loss. This room features a gown whose boning is designed to resemble a human skeleton.
Event designer Anna Görike sets flowers against black mesh fabric, while composer Mandy Mozart (The Cat Pope) blends orchestral and electronic sounds. With CEREMONY, lead designer Karin Brettmeister reevaluates the relationship between a brand and its community. Read more…
IMPARI
For Spring/Summer 2027, the collection “ANIMA” marks the relaunch of IMPARI. Inspired by Achille Mbembe’s thinking on the dissolution of boundaries between nature and technology, IMPARI understands innovation as a return with new knowledge, not as a departure from origin. A garment is thus not regarded as a passive object, but as a carrier of origin and memory.
The collection emerges through the deconstruction and reassembly of familiar structures, bringing softness into contact with resistance and organic forms with technical processes. ANIMA was presented at MOA Berlin during Berlin Fashion Week. It connects fashion with movement, sound, and performance into a comprehensive experience. The experience begins with a spoken performance. It then transitions into an energetic rap performance. Read more…
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