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This season, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin debuted with a completely revamped, fresh, new idea, showcasing extraordinarily brilliant designers—both established names and up-and-comers—with eye-catching outfits inside the recently rebuilt Telegraphenamt facilities right in the center of Berlin. I’d like to concentrate on just a few of the new collections that are particularly deserving among the astounding abundance of well-known brands alongside up-and-coming ones.
The fashion industry’s most dramatic color’s hidden meanings
Wearing black has long been a symbol of authority, rebellion, death, sex, and other things – It’s “the most slimming of colours”, said Christian Dior. “It affirms, designs and styles,” said Yves Saint-Laurent.
How the Queen came to be a fashion symbol
The Queen has experienced significant societal change over her 70 years in power, as well as previously unimaginable scientific and technological advances and – unavoidably – the development, decline, and reemergence of innumerable fashion fads.
The 10 best books of 2022 – Part 2
Introducing the top 10 books of 2022 compiled by BBC Culture , Part II.
The 10 best books of 2022 – Part 1
Introducing the top 10 books of 2022 compiled by BBC Culture.
A bridge of cultures
Writing from Ukraine that focuses on the current wars According to Dralyuk, Lyuba Yakimchuk is one of the country’s most important modern poets – “was a refugee from Donbas, from the war zone, and she has written very movingly about that experience”. Her 2016 poem Crow, Wheels highlights the apparent never-ending escalation of conflict: “When the city was destroyed, / they started fighting over the cemetery.”
Life and Fate – The Soviet novel ‘too dangerous to read’
For the second installment of BBC Culture’s Banned Books series, Nicholas Barrett writes that Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate painted an image of the Soviet Union during World War II that highlighted “the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within”.
The men’s national team of Estonia moves up one spot in the FIFA global rankings
The men’s national team of Estonia moved up one spot to 109th in the latest world rankings announced on Thursday by the organization that governs international football, FIFA.
The Best Pop Songs in 2022
After spending nearly two years in a “out-of-studio vortex,” most artists were unable to record properly in 2020 and the majority of 2021; 2022 is expected to be a year of new music’s “coming out.” This year, music has returned to its fuller form, introducing the public to some earworms (and candy) within pop, from Harry Styles’ long-awaited pulses around Harry’s House to Lizzo’s more assertive singing of I’m not the girl I was or used to be on the hit “About Damn Time” to Doja Cat’s tribute to Big Mama Thornton on her Elvis...