XAVI REYES PRESENTED BY MERCEDES BENZ AND ELLE BERLIN FASHION WEEK

Hey Guys,

What's up? I'm back with some more pictures right off the runway. The ELLE magazine x Mercedes Benz show is one of the more special shows on the schedule each season, always highlighting the works of a young talent. This year's talent: Xavi Reyes.
Xavi Reyes is a designer from Spain who founded his label with the same name only in 2013. His designs are largely gender-free (note the blush and make up on both male and female models during this show) playing with new silhouettes inspired by "youth, future and melancholy".

Fun fact: the guy in the first picture is a friend of mine, Simon Dube Paul, and I accompanied him and Phillip to the casting just a few days prior to the show. Trust me castings are not as easy and fun as they may seem on Germany's next Topmodel (You might have followed my day on Snapchat! LoisOpoku). We left the casting go watch Dube's little brother's basketball game and came back as the designer + team were packing up. The boys hushed in for a quick minute. Good thing Dube tried his luck.
He booked the show!
Enjoy the pictures of the runway. As usual shot by my boy Phillip and edited by me.

MAYBELLINE NEW YORK MAKE UP SHOW

Fashion Week kicked off with a very special kind of show this season for me. It was the Maybelline New York Make Up show that was also the opening show of the season, which I had been looking forward to for months as the special guest was none other than the stunning Gigi Hadid herself. I had received the invitation months before and it was the only show I was planning on attending, but as you know that turned out to be a hoax. Attended more than a handful of shows.. lol.
Anyway the show was special because it focused on the make up rather than the fashion. The looks were extravagant and crazy and each look represented a theme for each month of the year. Be sure to check out my pictures - you'll immediately get what I mean.
I think this was one of the most fun and memoriable nights this season. Especially when Gigi walked passed me out of the blue and I realized she is a true stunner. Couldn't even snap a selfie because I was in awe! Also because I spent that evening with my girl squad, we had lots of fun at the afterparty, eating cupcakes, drinking cocktails (..the usual) and got to meet a bunch of Germany's most famous Youtubers. Guess what they are cool as fuck. Down to earth as fuck. Fun as fuck.
Thanks for having us Maybelline!! Oh and thank you for the foundation I got to try before sales, but it wasn't quite my color! If you follow me on Snapchat (loisopoku) you know what I mean! hahahah

BACKSTAGE AT ALENA AKHMADULLINA PRESENTED BY MERCEDES-BENZ ELLE AND THE RUNWAY SHOW

This season was my first time backstage, backstage at a runway show. Backstage frenzy is mad. Mad in a capturing way - somewhat like a New York Minute. So many people in one room, everyone working their best. From photographers, to cameramen and video teams, interviewers and journalists for important magazines getting exclusives and in between the models have to get changed, dressed - but at least everyone has their own personal dresser. It's mad how everyone waits in line to shoot their two questions at Alena Akhmadullina while she takes minutes of her precious time to conversate, while she's still trying to keep a check on everything happening backstage because she's minutes away from her big moment. The moment her models walk the runway in her creative vision for the world to see.

FASHION SHOW ON THE RADIO

The title sounds a bit strange doesn't it? A fashion show? On the radio?
Not too long ago I traveled to Potsdam with Anh and Yuliya, because we had been invited by Media on Work. Marcel Ostertag (his shows always wow me at fashion week!) was going to present four looks of his latest collection on the Touching People's Hearts radio show as well as give an interview. And we had the chance to listen and see.

BLEND AND ICHI SHOWS AND FQ1924 LAUNCH

This presentation by the three danish labels Blend, Ichi and FQ1924 was different from most shows, because it wasn't only a fashion show, but studio too. You had the chance to get a closer look at the pieces from Blend, Ichi and FQ1924 before and after the actual runway show, as they were exhibited in the lobby.
The event took place at the Ellington Hotel.

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Anders als die meisten Shows war diese Presentation der drei dänischen Labels Blend, Ichi und FQ1924. Denn diese Presentation war nicht nur Fashion Show sondern auch Studio zu gleich. Man konnte sich die Mode von Blend, Ichi und FQ1924 vor und nach der Show genauer anschauen, da diese im Saal ausgestellt wurde.
Das ganze fand im des Saal des Hotel Ellington statt.