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Varvara Vysotskaia
MA Collection
Imagined Archive

The collection ‘Imagined Archive’ explores the themes of collective memory and the reconstruction of the past. Echoes of the shared consciousness are trapped and transformed within the designer’s reimagined artefacts. The collection is a reflection on a home that no longer exists and the fragile optimism from the late 1980s, when the promise of a better future remained within reach.

Credits
Designer*in: Varvara Vysotskaia  varvara vysotskaia
Fotograf*in: Charlotte Hansel
Model: Darya Trushkina Darya Trushkina
Hair and Make-Up: Darya Trushkina Darya Trushkina

Georgia Schönherr
BA Collection
the same deep water
 
“The same deep water” explores one of the most classic themes of paintings and poems: the clothed human body in water. When submerged, delicate fabrics bloom into voluminous shapes, dull colours become vibrant, hair twists like tendrils of smoke – and emerging from the depths waterlogged fabric clings heavily to the body, shiny and dark. The collection plays with volume and layers, transparency as well as different dyeing and printing techniques that embody the feeling of floating gently in the deep.

Credits
Designerin: Bunny Schönherr .are.ok
Fotografin: Charlotte Hansel
H&M: Bunny Schönherr .are.ok
Model: Lara Bartos

With UNSURFACED, Simon Büge presents his menswear collection, in which the trust, fit and stability of clothing are not presented as fixed promises, but as fragile constructions that shift on the body and are constantly being renegotiated.
 
In a fashion industry that stages classic craftsmanship as an image of perfection, timelessness and luxury, the collection turns its gaze to what underlies this image: process, labour and decision-making. It sees itself as a critical commentary on the image-making function of bespoke tailoring and shifts the focus from the representative result to the temporal practice of its creation.
  
Incompletion functions here as a central design principle. It marks not a deficiency, but a productive state of in-between – between fitting and adjustment, between body and ideal, between hand and material. Fit appears not as a final goal, but as a sensitive balancing of proximity, tension and space. The stability being negotiated here does not mean durability, but the constancy of the relationship between body and construction.
 
Classic cuts are destabilised through omission, displacement or inversion. Materiality creates deliberate friction: familiar forms encounter resistance, movements are slightly restricted, expectations are subverted. In this deliberate shift, a space emerges in which ‘bespoke’ can be reinterpreted – not as an image, but as an attitude. In terms of colour, the collection follows the logic of the atelier: dark blue, grey, natural tones and black dominate. Markings, raw edges and visible seams provide precise accents. The reduction in elements draws the eye to construction, proportion and relationship.
 
Simon Büge understands craftsmanship as a reflective, responsible practice in the digital age. The craft of tailoring is not romanticised, but visualised as knowledge that takes shape through action, failure and precise correction. With his collection, the designer makes a case for a fashion that makes decisions visible – and in doing so unfolds its aesthetic and ontological power.

Credits
Designer: Simon Büge
Photographer: Charlotte Hansel
Model: Liam Taj

Elisabeth Kiko
MA Collection
Built to Belong

‘Built to Belong’ is Elisabeth Kiko’s MA collection, exploring clothing as a form of emotional architecture shaped by memory, intimacy, and belonging. Developed through an intuitive and deeply personal design process, the collection returns to the question of why we create and what truly connects us. Inspired by architectural clarity, the gestures of loved ones, and the relationship between body and space, ‘Built to Belong’ investigates the tension between intimacy and conversation and its space, the decision between what is held close and what is shared with others.
 
Credits
Designer*in: Elisabeth Kiko kiko
Fotograf*in: Charlotte Hansel
Model: Diarra Diagne • Diarra •

F***y Hensel
MA Kollektion
„The Winner Takes It All“

The end of a fashion show is the starting point for this collection – that moment when a single person accepts the applause on behalf of the work of many. Using this routine ritual in an industry where collective work is the norm, F***y Hensel explores mechanisms of visibility and invisibility. The focus is on the centuries-old myth of the creative individual genius and the resulting hierarchical and misogynistic structures. To this day, these structures determine to whom recognition, authorship and success are attributed.

Credits
Designer: F***y Hensel
Photographer: Charlotte Hansel
Model: Lutea Beutel

Leonie Winkelmeier
BA Collection
Frieden ist?

The collection ‘Frieden ist?’ is conceived as a costume design and explores the themes of war and peace, the current debate on rearmament and military service, as well as historical peace movements. Inspired by Marlene Streeruwitz’s “Handbuch gegen den Krieg”, five characters have been created who embody different perspectives on war, peace and social responsibility.
Based on the premise that in our society, more is said and learnt about war than about peace, each character also incorporates elements of a peace movement. In this way, different and sometimes controversial positions come together, opening up space for dialogue and reflection.
The collection does not provide ready-made answers, but rather highlights the complexity of the debate. The focus is on the similarities, contrasts and areas of tension between the individual characters.
 

 Credits
 Designer: Leonie Winkelmeier .winkelmeier
 Photographer: 
 Model:

Helena Belenguer
MA Collection
the horrors persist, but so do I
 
Every society constructs its own idea of what is perceived as excessive, threatening, or abject in women. Drawing on the concept of the monstrous-feminine and inspired by female-coded horror films, this collection explores figures that are considered dangerous because they transgress boundaries of power, identity, and bodily control.
The monstrous-feminine emerges not as a passive being, but as an active subject that deliberately embraces contradiction, exposing the fragility of the categories through which it is defined and constrained. Through horror archetypes, the collection makes visible the anxieties and tensions surrounding femininity, desire, transformation, and self-fashioning.
 
Credits
Designer:
Photographer: Charlotte Hansel
Model: 𝕴𝖉𝖆 HMUA: 𝕴𝖉𝖆

Jasper Reinsch
BA Collection
As Good As Worn
 
The collection ‘As Good As Worn’ explores the tension between archiving and destruction. At its heart lies the question of how clothing carries meaning and history, and in particular, how this history is often artificially created, constructed or staged. It examines the moment when a garment is not merely worn, but deliberately imbued with traces of time, use or memory. Such artificially created patinas are often perceived as authentic, even though they are the result of deliberate design interventions. This aspect of artificiality is translated in the collection in a playful and almost naive manner. Rather than imitating authenticity, it is exaggerated and its constructed nature made visible. This gives rise to a highly graphic design language that moves between memory, staging and material transformation.

Credits
Designer: Jasper Reinsch .reinsch 
Photographer: Charlotte Hansel
Model: Andrei Oganov

Fabio Alecu
BA Collection
UN-BLOCK

‘UN-BLOCK’ explores the act of blocking and unblocking within garments and accessories. The creation of blockades in terms of gestures, cut, articulation, technique, narrative, form and material combinations, and thus their cancellation. Gestures that are suggested and not fulfilled. The feeling of being blocked as an opportunity. To unleash potential where it is restricted.

Credits
Designer: Fabio Alecu
Fotografin: Charlotte Hansel
Model:

Fashion Design Graduates from weißensee kunsthochschule berlin invite you to

seefashion 26 
 
Thursday, 2 July 2026
6 & 9 pm
ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Siemensstr. 27, 10551 Berlin

Registration required, link will follow 

Graduates
Aaron Schock 
Anna Honegger anna
Änne Ruwe
Clara Dietz Sarries
Fabio Alecu
Bunny Schönherr .are.ok 
Jasper Reinsch .reinsch 
Jule Kautt 
Leonie Winkelmeier .winkelmeier
Mona Masuyama .masuyama
Renee Klaßen 
Sayo Mogi Sayo Mogi
Elisabeth Kiko kiko
F***y Hensel 
Helena Belenguer 
Simon Büge
Sophia Sühwold .shw 
Stella Garbert stege
Varvara Vysotskaia varvara vysotskaia

Many thank to ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ZK/U | Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik 

The event is supported by the Economic Development Office of Berlin’s Mitte District Council in cooperation with PLATTE.Berlin, which is responsible for guest management and PR PLATTE

Credits
Photography: Charlotte Hansel 
Grahpic Design Poster: Renee Klaßen