Couture Fashion week may have opened their runway on Monday, but the ‘rookie player’ of the fashion world Berlin Fashion Week came to a close on Sunday. It was a week of high and even high-ers in fashion, the small player fashion week drawing more than its fair share of front show fashionistas- Sienna Miller taking front row at the Boss Orange collection whilst Diane Kruger was there for the opening of Escada;s view on fashion.

The first day of the week of Berlin fashion brought the debut of fashion label Lena Hoschek to the runway. This label is a favourite of singer Katy Perry and is a house known for their feminine designs. The Lena Hoschek’s catwalk showcased one totally wearable feminine style after another, each boosting a more ‘modest’ hemline and included some of her signature ‘retro’ dresses. This runway kept things nostalgic whilst Black Coffee and Ramirez showcased draping and tailoring that gave their shows a stark contrast.

Everyday, outdoor scenes (some appearing as ruin and destruction) of Berlin have become inspiration for clothing at this years fashion week, many designers depicting the city around them. Designers at Berlin Fashion Week took advantage of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, creating catwalk celebrations of the city’s “cultural revolution”. Garments were designed after abandoned electricity plants, homeless shelters, and Berlin wall original graffiti.

Michalsky- known for his dramatic creations- was one of the designers to use the economic crisis and combine it with Berlin’s landscape. His show, titled 1929 revisited, was a show where models dressed in flapper dresses and cityscape backgrounds that looked part Berlin, part New York City.

Although Berline Fashion Week is no big player like New York, Paris and London it still gives us an insight to what’s to come in the fashion weeks ahead. Berline showed us that metallic tones (through Kai Kuhne and Boss Orange’s gold and silver runways), monochrome (through Schumacher and Kaviar Gauche’s catwalk) combined with nude shades (also Schumacher and on Marcel Ostertag’s runways) are going to have something to do with the fashion weeks that lie in the coming months.

Overall metallic tones and monochrome looks were what made Berlin Fashion Week its own.

While we don’t yet know what New York, London, Paris and New York have in store for us next summer, Berlin showed us that metallic tones (gold and silver specifically at Kai Kuhne and Boss Orange respectively),monochrome (at Kaviar Gauche and Schumacher) and nude shades (also at Schumacher and Marcel Ostertag), are going to have something to do with it. Overall, the week was full of a plethora of metallic tones and monochrome looks.