\u201cWe actually put the most pressure on ourselves,\u201d Serhat I\u015fik and Benjamin Huseby humbly noted a few minutes before their show began. GMBH has always had a political bent, but they also allow themselves the freedom to sometimes \u201cjust\u201d make beautiful fashion.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack in winter 2023, we called our collection \u2018Untitled\u2019 and it was all about the color pink and bows. That\u2019s a privilege, no question. But now? We can\u2019t remain silent. As soon as you walk out, you face reality,\u201d said I\u015fik. Next to him was Huseby, wearing a T-shirt with the words \u201cFriedensangst\u201d printed on it. \u201cFear of Peace\u201d is a grotesque paraphrase used by the German financial press to describe the worries of many shareholders in the defense industry when international peace agreements are concluded and share prices fall as a result.<\/p>\n
At what is probably the tensest moment in global politics since GMBH\u2019s founding, the two designers are sticking to a tried-and-tested principle: finding beauty in dark times. That meant a return to the Berlin club culture of the 1980s, when the capital was truly a transgressive place of freedom. Though the focus was rediscovering their fashionable beginnings, teasing with body-shaping silhouettes or re-proportioning silhouettes to be more powerful, this collection had a few soft surprises to it. Very flowing pants with wraparound fabric panels, a small peplum on a jacket, and gently draping faux fur coats added a touch of delicacy to the runway. These were contrasted by their iconic thigh-high square-toe boots with front zippers, pants with boxer waistbands, and modular pieces such as faux fur collars and scarves.<\/p>\n
All in all, a rough yet delicate look back at many decades of Berlin and the last decade of GMBH. So, will we see a stylistic new beginning for their 10th anniversary show in the summer? That will be decided by the political situation. In fact, the greatest amount of pressure on I\u015fik and Huseby actually comes from the industry due to who they are. \u201cWe know that we are getting politicized as Muslim immigrants or children of Muslim immigrants. We want to talk about that too. That\u2019s why we founded GMBH,\u201d they add with seriousness in their voice and a smile in their eyes. \u201cAnd if that were ever to become the reason we\u2019d be taken down, then so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe actually put the most pressure on ourselves,\u201d Serhat I\u015fik and Benjamin Huseby humbly noted a few minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,1152,190,1151,1079,1153],"class_list":{"0":"post-871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-berlin-fall-2026","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-gmbh","12":"tag-runway","13":"tag-runway_review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}