A model wears a face mask as she presents creations of the 2021 summer collection by designer Anja Gockel at Adlon Hotel, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 30, 2020.

Masked models, social distancing: Anja Gockel holds fashion show in Berlin after Fashion Week cancellation

Berlin-based designer, Anja Gockel, who exhibits her assortment yearly on the Berlin Fashion Week, and significantly on the Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin, refused to again down within the face of the coronavirus pandemic and went forward along with her personal trend present, when Berlin Fashion Week was moved to Frankfurt. The designer hosts her present yearly on the luxurious resort in Berlin, and determined that she didn’t need to change this custom simply because trend week had moved. Gockel showcased her Asuka assortment, which interprets to the perfume of tomorrow, together with 5 designs by Lana Müller. Anja was impressed by the Japanese martial artwork of Aikido for the motto of the present, ‘Take the blow as a gift’, which in an interview the designer stated was very completely different from the Western mind-set, however made sense within the present occasions of the coronavirus.

Fashion designer Anja Gockel wears a face masks on the catwalk throughout a present to current creations of the 2021 summer time assortment at Adlon Hotel, following the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 30, 2020.
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In an interview with the German publication Berliner Zeitung, Anja spoke of trend week getting cancelled, “I asked five of my fellow designers whether they would like to participate, Lana agreed.” Like most designers, Anja too was dealing with a troublesome time preserving her enterprise afloat, however she shortly started the manufacturing of masks and saved her firm.

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Models put on face masks as they current creations of the 2021 summer time assortment by designer Anja Gockel at Adlon Hotel, following the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 30, 2020.
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Talking about how she refused to present in to pessimism and the positioning of the present in the identical interview, she stated, “The people in the Adlon have been with me at my shows for years and are so wonderfully supportive, I said on the first day of the lockdown that they shouldn’t send me emails saying it won’t work. Because it will! And it did!”

A mannequin wears a face masks as she presents creations of the 2021 summer time assortment by designer Anja Gockel at Adlon Hotel, following the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 30, 2020.
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The present, which often has an viewers of over 600, passed off in two components, with solely 200 folks seated this time. All security measures of social distancing and hygiene have been adopted by the organizers, and the seats of attendees have been positioned at 1.5 metre distances from one another.

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