All Photos: Michael Wittig
The young fashion students from ESMOD Berlin are happy. They're not only patting each other on the back because of their successful fashion performance, but also celebrating the huge success and large amount of proceeds raised at their benefit gala.
The Saint Catherine fashion benefit gala, named after the French patron saint of haute couture, is one of the most exciting traditions of the International Fashion University in Berlin. ESMOD is donating the proceeds to aid organisation I-Magine e.V., which financially supports the Amani community in Kenya.
Every year the young creative minds look forwards to presenting their individual outfits. In December the subject was "Camouflage Survival" with extravagant creations in the four subtopics "High-Tech Refugee", "Metamorphosis", "Mimicry" and "Doppelgänger". And guests like Angelika Blechschmidt (former editor-in-chief of Vogue) and Francois Girbaud were there to marvel at the students' versatile outfits of different interpretations and sources of inspiration. Clothing made from recycled materials, designed pieces based on Ovid's Metamorphis and the social-critical icon Coco Chanel and the question "What is the real me?" made the event in the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam an unforgettable experience.
And the young Berlin fashion students can be as proud as punch of the 600 guests and the 3000 Euros raised at the event. Congratulations!
