Eight young designers from Dubai and Berlin presented a fashion collection at a recent event in Dubai, focussing on fashion influenced by both cities.

The joint fashion collection show Dubai-Berlin Fashion Fusion took place at The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, and was organised by the Goethe-Institut German Language Center Dubai, liaison office of the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region.

This was part of the second Berlin-Dubai Festival, which took place in October/November 2011. An integral part of the Festival was the Young Designers’ Fashion Exchange Project, including the designers, who presented their joint work at the fashion show.

In the context of the exchange programme, the Emirati designers Khulood Thani, Maryam Selaich and Madeyya Almazroie and the Dubai based German-Egyptian designer Mona Fares visited Berlin in order to meet young fashion innovators from the German capital and gain first-hand insight into their work.

In return, four fashion design students from Esmod Berlin International University of Art for Fashion, Lena Braatz, Sophie Boehmert, Marina Hoermanseder and Anna Wilhelmi, travelled to Dubai to be introduced to the Emirati fashion design scene during the Berlin-Dubai Festival 2011.

This close exchange of views on fashion brought to the creation of a joint collection by the eight young designers.

The collection offers not only an insight into the designers’ personal style but it also mirrors both cities’ individual style and tries to link their history with traditions, values and visionary concepts.

Friederike Moeschel, director of Goethe-Institut German Language Center Dubai, said: “Fashion is used as a medium to discuss iconic values in societies as well as lifestyles and Zeitgeist in general and to nourish and inspire each other.”

The designers’ collaboration has the same objective and the young designers have exchanged ideas about their cultural backgrounds and detected differences and similarities used in the creative process, he added. – TradeArabia News Service