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Here you can find a selection of reviews and reports on the World Robes fashion competition.
Bright green, lush pink, glowing orange - that is just a small selection of the opulent range of colours offered by the "World Robes" fashion show at the conclusion of the birthday week of the university. As part of the university jubilee Milos Zilic, choreograph at Hanover's opera house, supported the students in their preparations. The world tour featuring a fusion of music and dancing took the show from the Peruvian highlands to an Indian wedding festival and a market in Mali and then back again to Hanover. Even university president Erich Barke couldn't contain himself any longer.
The travelling fashion show is very popular and is receiving wide recognition. It received an important prize from the German Federal Government and German industry. The jury were adamant that the campaign contributed towards international understanding, social commitment and the struggle against hunger. The prize is also proof that more can be achieved with fabrics than just patterns and colours.
A fairy tale in velvet and silk. The fantasy of the names of the designs did justice to the colourfulness of the show: the barrage of flashes from representatives of the media revealed "A fairytale in Peru" or "An Indian goes shopping and is confronted by packaging material".
A special type of fashion show. Now German Agro Action in Bonn has been honoured as "Chosen Venue 2006" for its World Robes campaign. For Ingeborg Schäuble, President of German Agro Action, this is a superb motivation for continuing the struggle against poverty in developing countries.
Gomes and other students from ten fashion schools and universities have adopted a critical and creative stance in their clothing creations, and have, so to say, interwoven different cultures. German Agro Action provided them with the fabric. The up-and-coming designers took the ethno look from the alternative scene and used it to decorate elegant costumes and skimpy party outfits. The audience was intoxicated by the colours; there was rapturous applause for some of the designs.
On the catwalk in front of it models strutted around like birds of paradise, wrapped in fabrics from Peru, India and Mali. The initiative for maintaining Germany as a prime economic location, "Germany - Land of Ideas", thought it was "a good idea" and chose it as one of the 365 "places" in the land of ideas. Crown corks dangle as jewellery on loosely fitting colourfully striped clothing. Silken wide breeches in brown hues, a pinstriped blazer and an orange coloured belt make up a casual combination with a white blouse and red tie to create a school uniform look.
"Here the up-and-coming German designers showed 1,100 enthralled guests imaginative, fascinating clothing and innovative outfits which they had conjured up from colourful fabrics. The 120 models were chosen by an international jury chaired by the Antwerp designer Stephan Schneider."
"It is a really special designer competition: students from ten different German fashion schools use exotic fabrics from Mali, India and Peru to conjure up unusual creations. In doing so they combine influences from different cultures. However, pointed out Sieglinde Zisler, head of the German Master School for Fashion in Munich, the notion of competition for its own worth was not the prime motivation: "A theme like 'World Robes' is a really good opportunity for illustrating what clothing and fashion really mean for people. For instance, that it really is our second skin. And it doesn't matter where we live and how much money we have."
"Exotic and domestic influences were intermingled, and that fits in with today's fashion trends. If the ethno poncho is actually made out of real wool, then people want it right away. Mixing fashion and hunger is a real tightrope walk. But it is feasible, as Regina Köthe from German Agro Action believes: "Clothing is not just there to protect people" she noted. "Clothing epitomises identity and inspiration."
"On Thursday star designer Ozwald Boateng flew from London to Berlin to watch the "World Robes" fashion show at the Indian Embassy. And the master designer, who otherwise spends his time creating clothes for Robbie Williams, Mick Jagger, Seal, Pierce Brosnan and his friend Will Smith, was highly enthusiastic. "What was on show here was really fantastic." ... The idea for the intercontinental fashion contacts came from German Agro Action. "In this way we want to also promote and publicise the cultures of the countries we are helping", explained chairwoman Ingeborg Schäuble."
"Ethnical variety was the motto, and this not only suits the objectives of German Agro Action, which is staging this show as part of a series of events to mark its 40th anniversary. .... The Weißensee University of Arts liberated itself from simply producing the fashionable design and conjured up colourful, imaginative, intelligent fusions, combining European tailoring techniques with the fabrics of other cultures. ....."
"Young designers from three fashion universities from Berlin and one from Stuttgart present their creations. Here they work with fabrics from developing countries - textiles made out of materials and featuring patterns which initially appeared unusual to the students. ..."
"Soft Indian silk, imaginative paisley patterns and warm colours of spices liven up conservative pinstripes, folds and dark brown. The students from the FHTW (Berlin University of Applied Sciences) call their collection "Monsoon Wedding", which they have designed for German Agro Action. ...."
"More than 500 visitors crowded into the fashion show on 13 October in the ethnological museum in Berlin-Dahlem. There were not enough chairs, and some visitors had to remain standing, but the atmosphere was relaxed and good spirited...."