T H E -H Y P N O T I C A - I S S U E

Frills, ruffles, sequins. Dip-dyed silk, mohair knit and cashmere meshes. Did this season’s outfits lure you, lull you, lead you on to a different state of mind? Yet? Get yourself together for Fashion Week Berlin’s last day. As for DERZEIT’s office team, the moment you read this: we will already be done. But trust us we feel hypnotized – or let’s say pixelated. We’ve had the stars shine onto our laptops and seen the sun rise every morning. But nevertheless – HYPNOTICA – here it comes: Madlene’s eyes vs. Michael Mann’s lense, inside Mr. Bessing’s head, taking a trip into the world of “Tron” and: Lala Berlin’s Leyla Piedayesh talks... See you tonight! And: We’ll be back in July... your DERZEIT team.

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T H E - S I L E N T I U M - I S S U E

Slip into a Zen meditation mode and compose yourself with DERZEIT’s Silentium issue – silence is the best condition to enjoy a newspaper. Tune out the sound – and let the snow-covered landscape on the cover help you to switch off the buzzing noise of the city. The horses, by the way, were the true professionals and had an inner calm: not even the model’s eerie styling made them scatter. For further advice on how to shield yourself from the world, soak in the “seclu- sion strategies” of Sharon Welzel, listen to the silent voice, Jacqueline Huste and take a moment to contemplate the latest runway trends. Or tune in after all: Ben Brunnemer, NY’s fashion week DJ dilates on the sound of fashion.

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T H E - C O G I T O - I S S U E

Cogito ergo sum – I think therefore I am. But what am I thinking? – sitting in a white cube, staring at the wall? Am I to think about existence itself? To reflect about the act of thinking? Luckily, the all-encompassing room called earth, in whose surface we move every day, is an overwhelming kaleidoscope of sensual impressions feeding our mind with thoughts. However, it still has to be evaluated what goes really deep and what only superficially pretends to open a new dimension to us. For the COGITO issue, our essayist Marcus Woeller investigated optical illusions and photographer Lena Emery interlaces two dimensions in one fashion shoot; “Word is”-columnist Alexandra Kruse tried to enter Ugo Rondinone’s headspace and on top, there are impressions from the two-dimensional surface called catwalk. Don’t sleep, there’s three more days and issues to come!

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T H E - I N S O M N I A - I S S U E

We're finally back!
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Have you lost track of the discussion on where to set up the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tent? It is where it used to be! As the search is only postponed, here’s our proposal: There’s a parking lot in front of DERZEIT’s new office in Neukölln...
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In the meantime, enjoy the catwalk shows at Bebelplatz. In your precious leisure time, our INSOMNIA issue will stimulate you visually, intellectually and style-wise with a fashion shoot by Jonas Lindström; Maxime Büchi, mastermind behind Sang Bleu, shares his insight; Mr. Filip Arickx, designer and one half of Belgian label A.F. Vandevorst, talks about “A.Friend” and more.
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Don’t sleep, there’s three more days and issues to come!

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T H E - M U T A T I O N - I S S U E

Marvel explains that the rate of mutant births spiked sharply after the blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That comes as no surprise to DERZEIT, which becomes more homo and more superior with every gallon of oil that spurts from the ocean floor. 
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Bouncing on the cap is Ingo Niermann, who projects the politics and robotics of a post-spill world – where everyone may end up looking like Nick Cave's furries. Emily Segal posits a more toothsome alternative with her fetish for grillz, while Stefan Milev documents model Tess in her preemptive cocoon.
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After just a week, the DERZEIT gene pool may seem slight. But the greatest spike is yet to come.

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T H E - S T A T E - I S S U E

As Ted Kaczynski so eloquently figured: state of mind and state of the union are intimately linked. For DERZEIT, the state of media naturally follows.
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Michael Ladner consults Luis Venegas, who tracks hot teen boys from nation to nation in Electric Youth; Emily Segal follows the book from digital to physical and back via the travails of aaaaarg.org; Frank Leder maps a new Germany within his atelier. On the Baltic coast, Amos Fricke shot model Anne Sophie before a set of ominous DERZEIT flags. As usual, the catwalks put our reporters in a state. 
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Are you miserable? DERZEIT's the cause and the solution! Don't leave your bags (or your mail) unattended. - the D E R Z E I T team 

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T H E - T E N S I O N - I S S U E

 
According to Wilhelm Reich, it’s the tension between the outer armor and the inner turmoil that links fashion and fascism – the border on which D E R Z E I T is certainly operating. 
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With us is Joachim Bessing, who dives off a boat full of Prada into an ocean of violence; Rachel Blatt, who pokes at the void in Barbara Bloom’s Presence; a firey fetish; semi-analogue explosions at Tempelhof; Nina Trippel’s visit to the knit-swaddled atelier of Boessert/Schorn; catwalk reviews, and other orgastic impotence.
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Our bladder’s about to burst. After the final spill, who’s gonna be around to clean up?
– the D E R Z E I T team



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T H E - I N F I N I T Y - I S S U E

DERZEIT is back, standing on the precipice of Volume III and a whole new fashion week.
Even though it's just our one year anniversary, we're not worried about next season – instead, our googly eyes are staring deep into INFINITY.
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Inside, you'll find Calvin Klein's creative directors on keeping eternity in forward motion, the piety of model Sarah Batt, and Matthew Evans on the science of trend forecasting. Plus a fetish for Texte zur Kunst, the anticipations of Alexandra Kruse, and a visit to Vladimir Karaleev's studio, where time is no object.
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The clock is ticking. May the divine light shine upon you!

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T H E - P R O G N O S I S - I S S U E

The tarot will teach you how to create a soul. I have always been drawn to things I found interesting but couldn’t understand. The tarot fascinated me because it was very strange. I studied the tarot card by card. I saw its structure... I saw the suits... But I didn’t understand the tarot. Then I started mixing the cards. I saw I could put them together and realized that the 78 cards could be joined in a mandala, in just one image. You see all the tarot at once and realize that it is a unit. And then you study the different parts. Once you analyze this, you learn to see the tarot. You must not talk about the future. The future is a con. The tarot is a language that talks about the present. If you use it to see the future, you become a conman. You are just a charlatan.
(Alejandro Jodorowsky »The Tarot of Marseilles«)
 




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T H E - A C C I D E N T - I S S U E

Failure is not a condemnation! It’s not the same thing. Failure is failure. Failure is an accident: art has tripped on the rug. In any case you should not forget my logic of failure, my logic of the accident. In my view, the accident is positive. Why? Because it reveals something important that we would not otherwise be able to perceive. In this respect, it is a profane miracle. What is a miracle? It is a gift brought before the eyes so that one may believe, so that there could be some superior hope. Granted, the accident, in a certain way, is a miracle in reverse. It reveals something absolutely necessary to knowledge. If there were no accident, we would not even begin to imagine the industrial revolution or the revolution in transportation, etc. So please don’t confuse the term failure.
(Paul Virilio »The Accident of Art« 2005)





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T H E - S T R U C T U R E - I S S U E

Two kinds of skill are diametrically opposed: the cosmonaut’s skill and the juggler’s skill. Both form effective feed-back systems. However, whereas the former achieves efficiency by an absolute neutralization of factors that could interfere with the system, the latter exploits these factors to strengthen the system. The juggler’s skill (as well as the skill of acrobats, drummers, billiard players, tight-rope artists for example) cannot be explained by talent and practice. Everything seems to indicate that skill is likewise influenced by a ritual presentation of skill. In other words, the ritual movement of the virtuoso is an important part of the virtuosity. Show and theater are not involved as much as is frequently assumed.
(Tomas Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe, »Wissenschaft und Gestaltung,« 1964)  


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T H E - O R I G I N - I S S U E

If the egg is not necessarily of any specific type, then it could be said that the egg came first, because other animals had been laying eggs long before chickens existed, such as the dinosaurs. If only an egg that will hatch into a chicken can be considered a chicken egg: then a reconsideration of the original question suggests some animal other than a chicken laid the first chicken egg which contained the first chicken. In this case the chicken egg came before the chicken. If only an egg laid by a chicken can be considered a chicken egg: then a re-consider- ation of the original question suggests the first chicken (which hatched from a non-chicken egg) laid the first chicken egg. In this case the chicken came before the chicken egg. Again, this would not necessarily be a straightforward event.
(Wikipedia, »The Chicken or the Egg« )



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T H E - D E S I G N - I S S U E

We are very proud to bring you the latest and last issue of DERZEIT, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week newspaper of Berlin. We made the impossible possible and this couldn't have happened without a lot of people in the background. Thank you very much for believing in my dream, for making it to yours too and for working so hard to prove that Berlin is just at the beginning of its rise to a fashion capital!

Manuel Schibli
founder, editor in chief & Art director of DERZEIT

Thank you: Alice Kuhn (art direction & production), Emily Segal & Michael Ladner (managing editors,), Sebastiano Ragusa (fashion director), Sebastian Warschow (organisation, Haberlein & Mauerer), Miranda Siegel, Eva Munz, Matthew Evans, (editorial office), Adriano Sack, Alexandra Kruse, Marco Rechenberg (contributors), Stefan Milev, Nicolas Kantor (photographers), Daniel Aubke (IMG), Tobias Müller (Mercedes-Benz), Georg Roske, Lhaga Koondhor & Grace Hollaender (backstage photographers), Berliner Zeitungsdruck, all our models & background people who helped to make this happen!

The Design Issue featuring Alexander Wiederin, Martin Meier's Lamborghini and a colorful and fresh shoot by Nicolas Kantor, styled as always by our Fashion Director Sebastiano Ragusa. Please enjoy and see you next year!

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T H E - A R T - I S S U E

We are back with our third issue and there is only one more to go. How the days fly by. We met the promising american art duo AIDS3d and chatted with Lala Berlin. For the jewelry shoot Alice Kuhn climbed up the Bismark monument, one of the most beautiful statues around Berlin. Helmut Newtons book Sumo celebrated its comeback and there is aswell the Catwalk review Page.

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T H E – A R C H I T E C T U R E – I S S U E

It's 8 o'clock in the morning and the last file is on it's way to the printer. We've got a lot of positive feedback on the first day and we promise you, this was only the beginning. Issue no. 2 / Architecture brings you a experimental yet beautiful editorial featuring clothes from Marcel Ostertag to Arkadius Giesek, shot by the talented Nicolas Kantor. Don't miss the interview of Young Berlin Architects nOffice at page nr. 6!
From now on, as the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin is running, you will find a catwalk review including pictures with all the highlights of yesterday regularly on page nr. 7. Lhaga Khondoor, our nightlife and streetstyle expert arrived yesterday just to hit the street just a few minutes after landing in the capital.
Enjoy the beautiful day & catch some Berlin sun. Please feel free to get in touch with us, let us know what u like about DERZEIT or what you might do differently.

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T H E – F A S H I O N – I S S U E

We are very proud to bring you the first issue of DERZEIT (wednesday 1.7.09), the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Daily Newspaper:
Featuring emerging photographer talent Stefan Milev, an exclusive interview with Kai Kühne, the fabulous Ayzit Bostan and and and. Please note that you will also find all the information you need and as a first issue special a complete map of all the different hotspots of the upcoming 4 days. So grab you personal issue at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tent at Bebelsplatz and various Locations all over Berlin.

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