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Berlin label Reality Studio is showing its down-to-earth side once again. Last summer designer Svenja Specht sent her models out onto Berlin’s streets on bicycles. This year she’s presenting her 2012 spring/summer collection next door to the Korean restaurant Yam Yam at Alte Schönhauser Straße 6 in Berlin Mitte.

Barely six months old, Couture Society is already expanding. The online shopping community with a twist functions as follows: you spot a garment you love at one of the fashion shows in Berlin, Paris, London, Milan or New York and minutes later you can order it online at www.couture-society.com. This allows you to get your hands on one-off, unique items – after all, the majority of the runway collections are not produced for the mass market.

Berlin Fashion Week is just around the corner and new shops are sprouting up like mushrooms in the German capital. Like the new branch of Amsterdam label Scotch & Soda which is opening tomorrow. Not far from the Hackescher Markt, at Münzstraße 14-16, you can get your hands on classic and vintage-inspired Scotch items on a space of 150 square metres.

'Paris, New York, Berlin – wherever you may be, your locks are looking good!' Bad hair days are now a thing of the past thanks to the 'Hair Bags' designed by Berlin-based fashion designer Paula Immich. The bags are one-offs made of 'Human Hair – Same', an artificial material that resembles human hair. You can style them as required with a comb, curling tongs or hair straighteners.

The brains behind Swiss menswear label Strellson came up with a really fun guerrilla promotion: at the beginning of June they covered the storefront window of their Düsseldorf flagship store with 'I LOVE DUS' T-shirts. And with a hidden camera they filmed the frantic shoppers ecstatically grabbing their unexpected gifts. We like!

For the second time, tomorrow evening from 10pm, Cologne's façades will be transformed into cinema screens. As part of Cologne's 'Film nights', selected locations in the Cathedral City will serve as backdrops for video projections and improvised live music.

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What does a purveyor of modernity have in common with a denim label? In the case of the French furniture designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) and the Dutch denim label G-Star, quite a bit: reduction to the essentials, innovation, technology and the use of pure and unadulterated materials are central to both.