Window Shopping with Mimi Berlin in Milan during Designweek 2019

Posted on 10/04/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Window Shopping Fashionfix

Window shopping in Milan is one of Mimi’s greatest pleasures. This week is all about furniture and industrial design ’cause it’s Milan Design Week #mdw19, but we do need our fashionfix so we took a stroll along the shop windows of the high-end fashion brands in the area around the Via Montenapoleone. Below some pictures we made for y’all, who don’t have the time to go shopping for fashion design.

Transparent with silver, industrial, detailing at Fendi

Aquazzura, a shop disguised as a circus-tent

Mini Palais Bulles ("Bubble Palace") at Larusmiani

van Cleef & Arpels shop window design by Arthur Hoffner

window shopping Neon and a Giraffe at Krizia

Little Shop of Horrors Jungle at the Dolce and Gabanna Family Store

Artisanal tie-dye & basket at Isabel Marant

From Industrial to Discotheque to Safari

From the top of our heads (and thus in a nutshell) we could not help but spot the following ‘trends’. ‘Discotheque’ with neon colors, hologram, shine and glitter in silver, gold and bright colors. ‘Industrial’ with neon lights, concrete, silver detailing and transparency or plastic. On the ‘Safari’ side of the ‘shop-window-spectrum’ in Milan: animals, in particular the giraffe, monkeys and birds. Furthermore we’ve seen some tie-dye, at Prada and Stella McCartney only, and of course the color pink in all kinds of romantic shades.

window shopping roses at Blumarine x Calligaris

Pink

Shop windows with a very romantic and girlie vibe, in pink: from pastel to shocking. Pink. The larger-than-life easter egg is made by Cova

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Bright Flowers on a Black Background Fashion Winter 2019

Posted on 01/03/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

The Pret-a-Porter runway shows for the Winter of 2019 are just about to finish. Mimi Berlin is very fond of prints and thus noticed a mini trend: How to make your summer flowers suitable for the winter season? Use huge bright flowers and place them on a black background. Add black and yellow solids, and, presto! You have yourself a wonderful and easy to sell capsule-collection.

Your Welcome! xoxo Mimi Berlin @mbmodebüro

Bright Flowers on a Black Background Fashion Winter 2019

As seen at Prada, Marc Jacobs and Dries van Noten during fashionweek Milan, New-York and Paris. Below more outfits by Prada. (imagecredits: Peter Stigter)

Milan Design Week 2018 Cubism

Posted on 23/05/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Cubism in Interior Design

Next to many round and friendly interior design we also noticed some cubist inspired decor. Not that much, but we feel it could well be the next trend. It almost has to be, because all the ‘Barbapapa’ furniture design you can think of has already been made, for a couple of seasons, by all brands at this point.

Carpet / Moroso

Mural / Lammhults. The bright pastel color-scheme of this interior didn’t suit the other images so we made it in black and white.

Motorcycle / De Castelli

Mirror/ ClassiCon

These four are the most evident examples of design, leaning towards Cubist shapes: Carpet from Moroso/ Mural by Siri Carlén for Lammhults / Motorcycle Samotracia Mario Trimarchi for De Castelli / Mirror from ClassiCon.

More reports on Milan Design week 2018 by Mimi berlin Blogger Team

Milan Design Week 2018: Friendly Furniture

Posted on 06/05/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Friendly Furniture or ‘no harm’ design

Maybe it’s us. Maybe it’s a trend: Friendly Furniture. At the Milan Design week 2018 we saw too many, too much:
Sofa’s disguised as Barbapapa. (from tacchini.it)
Rounded corners and edges; chairs, cupboards and even scissors seemed unharmful (as in babyproof).
Disproportional furniture and accessoiries making you feel small-sized. And, on top of it all; many of these designs are produced in pastel colors. (and in 70s like orange/brown colorschemes)

Milan Design Week 2018: Friendly Furniture

tachini/ Jonas Wagell

JCP/Matteo Cibic

Moroso

Mattiazzi/Inga Sempé

Magis/Marcel Wanders

Emeco/Jasper Morrison

Driade

Vitra

Bossa

Hay x Sonos

Kyukyodo [ incense ] × GamFratesi

Marcelis/Handmade industrials

Oh: we almost forgot to mention the peaceful incense in the shape of a dove!

By the time we saw a presentation smiling at us we had enough of it; and longed for the next trend in line: which we predict will be no-fun, black, shiny and hard: furniture with edges designed to look uncomfortable and nasty!

PS:
Of course there is ‘no-fun’ design to be found; but it’s not yet fully descended, style und trendwise. Also a more divers colorscheme than the ‘baby-pastels’ were presented: we just feel that this trend is the most found in ‘design-land’ for the longest time.

More reports on Milan Design week 2018 by Mimi berlin Blogger Team

Resort 2016 Fashion Shows: Looks

Posted on 11/03/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Resort 2016 Fashion Shows: Looks

Black and white (Minimal und Frilly)

Acne Studios Look 1

Sportmax Look 5

Balenciaga Look 3

lanvin Look 31

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Giambattista Valli Look 6

Opening Ceremony Look 14

Derek Lam Crosby Look 2

Cynthia Rowley Look 8

Pastel (Frilly und Minimal)

Antonio Marras Look 19

Ports 1961, Look 19

Theory Look 8

Christopher Kane Look 21

Romantic

Alberta Ferretti, Look 31

Marc Jacobs Look 29

Ohne Titel Look 3

Red Valentino Look 15

Burberry Prorsum Look 11

Bottega Veneta Look 30

Discotheque

Moschino Look 9

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Norma Kamali Look 4

rachel-zoe Look 11

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Clean

Tomas Maier Look 20

Hugo Boss Look 15

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Checks and minimals (Clean und Romantic)

Whistles Look 6

Gucci Look 35

Christian Dior Look 1

Louis Vuitton Look 28

Gucci Look 1

Flowers (Romantic und Clean)

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Chanel

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Decisions, Decisions.
We chose one favorite look from (almost) every designer showing the Resort 2015 season, featured on vogue.com, and tried to incorporate as many brands as possible, choosing one look only.

Why? Sometimes it’s good to test yourself. We think it’s important to see what happens when you approach things differently than you’re used to. So we zoomed in on the runway Looks instead of the complete collections, like we normally do. Funny thing is; this way we come up with only “usual-suspect” trends: boring! We did look at designers we have never seen before, that’s less boring but also very time consuming, and we all know time=money 😉
Conclusion: We will never again let go of our experience and knowledge about fashion trends, brands and designers. The way we spot our trends is the right way and the fun way!

(all images via vogue.com)