German Street Fashion
by Angeli Muscherte
Although the lives of many fashion conscious people revolve around the catwalks of New York, Paris and Milan, here in Germany, we take out style and fashion senses to the streets.
If you have ever visited Berlin, Düsseldorf or Hamburg, you would be surprised at just how interesting normal people dress and present themselves. If you do not feel like sitting at home in front of the television watching stick thin models strut around in thousand dollar dresses, then what you should do is to find a comfortable bench in a park or at a sidewalk and watch the people passing along for interesting, fantastic, amazing, weird and out-of-this-world fashions.
I for one have found this to be a really interesting and enjoyable thing to do. Today for instance, I have seen a girl wearing a totally sheer dress and walking around as if everyone else could not see her barely clad body. There was also a teenager who was wearing an interesting coat and who told me when I asked him about it that it belonged to his grandfather. A woman wearing a checkered jumpsuit and vintage sun glasses also caught my interest as well as a lady in a large, parachute-like dress.
Yes, they may not be as glamorous as New York women nor are they as sexy and hip as those in Los Angeles. They are not as chic as the mademoiselles of Paris and these men and women are also not as put together and pristine as the models who strut around on Milan’s catwalks.
However, that does not mean that street fashion in Germany is not inspired and interesting. In fact, I get a lot of inspiration and ideas from what people on Germany’s streets wear and I use these ideas to create the garments I need to make for fashion school.
To limit their style and personality to a single word such as edgy, chic, or elegant would be like closing the box brimming with an endless store of personality and taste. Germans enjoy wearing their heart on their sleeves and you can really see the vibrance and life of German style and fashion not on the fashion catwalks, but on the streets and sidewalks of this fair country.