Fashion Week Berlin 2009

Fashion hit the town last week! What did I do? Tuning in my ear to German by allowing the TV to run German soaps – for instance something about a real life judge sorting out confused people’s real life problems – does it really hurt so much when handcuffs are taken off that you need to spend several minutes rubbing your wrists with an expression of severe agony? No, I don’t think so.

Anyway… Fashion in Berlin? I love shopping but I am not a fashion freak. I don’t read Vogue, Elle, etc, I prefer High Street fashion and can go crazy in London with my bank card (I hate cash, I hate to know that I am actually spending money) but here in Berlin fashion is much more laidback. But a creative individualistic and inventive laidback. I really don’t spend so much money here and have almost lost interest.

So I ignored all events, all but one, oneĀ  I think was the ultimate event of the week. Fashionweek Backstage was a club event on Saturday night which took place at Stadtbad Oderberger (did we have to wear bikinis?) with a live set by Booka Shade (oh yes!). Here are some impressions:

booka shade feetbooka shade arms in the airhappy to play booka shadebooka shade's mandarine girl?

And it was great. The crowd was not the usual electro followers that you find in the normal clubs, granted the entrance fee was pretty high by Berlin standards but in my humble opinion to see Booka Shade it was well worth it. I will try to upload some of the videos I recorded as the quality is not bad and the music great…

Ah! Music music music

So instead of posting youtube links to Berlin inspired music that I really like, I have created a profile on Blip that I will update regurarly.

Here’s the link:

http://blip.fm/alexaore

So my latest discovery and one of my favourite songs at the moment is by Stephan Bodzi, called Liebe Ist…
I have also added the remix of Feist’s “My Moon My Man” by Boyz Noise because it is a classic here and such a good remix.
Feel free to give me tips! I am still a novice in electro :)