It is 1 am now as I am writing this so I will make it short, but sweet. The first day of Berlin Fashion Week is over and it was nice, Lala Berlin was my favorite show. Still, it was the small things that really caught my eye, like the shoe and dress shaped cookies at Jette Joops jewellery presentation, the plant in a boot or the amazing studded high heels that some very fashionable girl wore outside of the tent. I will try to get some sleep now so I will be ready for day two.

Tomorrow night Berlin fashion week will officially kick off with the Grazia party. Tons of shows, presentations, parties, brunches and fun will follow until sunday. One of the most surprising and interesting news reached me earlier today when I was told that Olivia Palermo is expected to be at the Markus Lupfer presentation on friday. Olivia in Berlin? Possible since she has always named Berlin as one of her favorite places. I’ll definitely be there and try to get a look at the New Yorker socialite.

FOR THE SEVENTH TIME IN A ROW, MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK COMES TO BERLIN AMIDST GROWING POPULARITY

From July 7 to 10, 2010 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin will present an eclectic mix of designers in the German capital. Among the initial brands confirmed are 30PAARHAENDE, ALLUDE, ANJA GOCKEL, ARRONDISSEMENT AQ1, BLAAK, CUSTO BARCELONA, .DIMITRI, KAVIAR GAUCHE, KILIAN KERNER, LALA BERLIN, LAURÈL, PATRICK MOHR, PERRET SCHAAD, RENA LANGE, RISTO BIMBILOSKI, SCHUMACHER, STARSTYLING und THOMAS ENGEL HART with designers BLACKY DRESS, CHRISTINA DUXA COUTURE, DAWID TOMASZEWSKI, and MAVI showing for the very first time. MARCEL OSTERTAG will open Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Spring/Summer 2011. BOSS BLACK and MONGRELS IN COMMON are showing their collections offsite.

I went back to Berlin over the weekend, spent some time with my friends and family. When I went to Potsdamer Platz to meet a friend on friday, I saw this huuuuuge poster of Natasha Poly for H&M. It’s really huge, it’s like a billboard and it looks great! Just compare the size of Natasha to the people walking around… must be weird to see yourself on a poster like that. Anyways, I thought I’d share it with my readers… I’m at the airport now on my way back to Munich. Everyday life at In Style magazine will continue tomorrow…

As promised, here’s some pics of my new favorite jacket, its a studded Blazer from H&M. The material is very interesting, it’s very thin, but kinda heavy, which makes it fit perfectly. I love the cut, I love the creamy color and the silver studs, only the price was a bit high, 49,95 Euros, but it’s from H&M Trend so I expected that. I like it, if anyone else is thinking of buying it, I would say do it! I think there will be quite a lot of oportunities for you to wear it!

I’m sure you’ve noticed the Vintage trend that is going on, especially among bloggers. Saying that you wear Chloe boots with a vintage dress seems to make you ultra fashionable immediately. Aparently mixing so called vintage pieces with new pieces is a sign for looking great. Well… I have to say I often like the mix on fellow bloggers and yesterday I went to a big vintage store in Berlin called “Garage” with the intention to find some great and cheap accessories for my wardrobe. After looking around for 10 minutes I realized that vintage isn’t for me. Here are some reason why:

First of all, “Vintage” is just a euphemism for the word “second hand”. If you say your scarf is vintage, we think of an old scarf of great quality, probably worn by a wealthy lady in the 60s, having a tea party. If you say your scarf is “second hand”, we would think of a cheap scarf that you bought because you didn’t have enough money for a new one.

Which leads me to reason no.2: You don’t know who wore the piece of clothing before you! Of course you can wash it and it probably would be fine, but just thinking about the fact that a person who doesn’t care so much for hygiene could have worn it for years makes me shiver.

Which leads me to reason no3.: The smell. Have you ever noticed that all vintage stores have the same smell? And believe me it doesn’t smell nice. It smells old and dusty. Now this smell doesn’t really make me wanna buy something there.

Last but not least reason no.4: The prices. Sure, you can be lucky and make a really good deal if you find something of great quality, but let’s face it, most of the stuff in a vintage store is old, worn and pretty average quality. For some reason though, the prices aren’t that low! I saw a dress yesterday at “Garage”, black with some golden pearls, really nice and simple, but then I saw the price tag: 20 Euros! Uhm….I can get a completely unworn, new dress like that at H&M for the same price. So no, thanx.

Frustrated after realizing that this was probably my last visit of a vintage store, I went off to Zara and H&M and bought a beautiful skirt and studded blazer, will show you tomorrow…

What’s your opinion on vintage? Do you like it? Do you often buy vintage clothes? Leave a comment! I wanna know!

Last night I was invited to a charity fashion show in Potsdam, which is a beautiful small city close to Berlin. I’m happy I went, because the designs were amazing. The designers were students of fashion school ESMOD, but you couldn’t tell that they aren’t professionals. All the dresses looked like something Lady Gaga would love to wear, lots of shimmer, glitter and shiny fabrics combined with oversize shapes, big shoulders and super high heels. I think it is really great to see that the future of designers is nothing that we need to worry about! Check out my pictures…

So last night I decided very spontaneously that I wanna go to our huge department store KaDeWe and I didn’t regret it. They have the best christmas decoration in Europe, it is amazing. And this year it is pink! Not tacky pink, very beautiful dark pink with gold, the huge christmas tree looks amazing and there are marry-go-rounds and wooden horses and birds everywhere. The best thing though are the details. If you look closely, there are candy hearts and lollipops saying “Love” everywhere. I felt like a little kid in winter wonderland. If you are in Berlin until christmas, you have to go there and see for yourself. I took these pictures with my cell phone but believe me, it looks a thousand times better in reality, and yes, thats me in the picture with the mirror, I thought it looked funny : )

Last night I went to the Createurope Fashion Award Show in Berlin. It was pretty much what I expected. Typical Berlin underground we’re-too-cool-for-school-fashionistas everywhere, a big factory hall or something like that with a nice long runway and huge TV screens on the walls. Lots of oh so fashionable people with free drinks in their hands were chatting, standing around or looking at the posters of the 30 international designers. After about 1,5 hours the fashion show started. 180 outfits were to be seen, a little bit too much unfortunately. You could clearly see how people got more bored and distracted after about half of the fashion show. Anyways, except for that it was quite nice, lots of talented designers and some really impressive creations. There were 4 winners I think and to be honest I cant even tell you who won because I dont remember their names, but I think all of them deserved it. Here are some of my pictures…

It was like christmas and my birthday at the same time when I found my Vogue Anniversary Issue in the mailbox yesterday. Actually it was only half in the mailbox, the other half didnt fit in. Ladies and Gentlemen, this issue has 730 pages!!! It is so heavy, I had to actually carry it with both hands into my house. I got the Bruce Weber issue (the other two are Karl lagerfeld and Peter Lindbergh issues) and so far I think it is amazing. I only flipped through it yet and scanned my favorite editorial called “Berlin bei Nacht” with models Abbey Lee Kershaw, Candice Swanepoel and Behati Prinsloo. Here are my scans…