Vladimir Karaleev is a Berlin fashion graduate – and he made sure that a little up-and-coming spirit could also be found this season in Berlin Fashion Week’s offsite show calendar. His Spring/Summer 2010 vision prescribed the essential design parameters for designers: form, materiality and color. Whereby the latter is an interplay between random selection on his part and additional advising from a friend, because Vladimir Karaleev is colorblind. That is why every career consultant would have probably advised the designer from Bulgaria against a career in the fashion industry. He does it anyway and for that reason has a particularly pronounced sense of fabric and surface. To live cello music, Karaleev presented variations of voluminous, cleverly thought out draped forms.

Unpretentious, slim silhouettes complemented the presentation in the brightly lit rooms of the Coma Gallery, where the designer who was born in 1981 draped the models in silk, vinyl and paper. A Berliner to keep an eye on.

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