written July 2nd, 2009 · 3 comments

I’ve been to my very first fashion show!

It all took place yesterday at this tent in the middle of Berlin on a warm summery evening. I was helping out at the student show (students of the UDK – Universität der Künste Berlin), on July 1st at 10 pm and my experience took place backstage where all the excitement, stress and 1 hour of craziness took place!

Image from here.

At the show, I assisted one of the graduating students with the production of her collection and getting her models dressed correctly. It was great to see how a show like that is put on, and it was indeed very professional for a student show, without any rehearsals! Before we had to get our models dressed, I had ample opportunity to take some photographs of the backstage going ons. It was a dream come true! For any of you that are fashion people, this may seem blasé, but for someone who has always loved fashion, but was never directly involved, like me, this was quite a treat.

In this post I have included my photographs of favorite outfits, crazy outfits and many photographs of the scuffle that took place backstage. It is quite amazing to think that there is one show going on out on the catwalk and an entirely different show of sorts going on backstage, and the models are the only ones that can truly experience both. But for me, backstage was the place to be! It was dramatic and stressful, but totally exciting to see all the amazing designs of the students up close and personal!

The students watching the models walk on stage.

Helpers, helpers, helpers…

 Big, bright, bold…

 Waiting for the moment…

Unfortunately, I was only able to photograph these pieces coming off the runway, because I had to assist in the dressing. They are also a bit blurry, but in a kind of interesting way I think.

The whole collection from the student I was assisting, Natalya Goldbach.

Well, that’s all!