As part of Berlin Fashion Week, the Berliner Salon is presenting a group exhibition of young designers in the rooms of the Bode Museum. The participants were selected by Christiane Arp and the Berlin Salon Board of Trustees with the aim of promoting up-and-coming talent. The extraordinary creations can be admired in the permanent exhibition of the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art on the first floor of the Bode Museum.

Together with Christiane Arp, the initiator of the Berlin Salon and Chairwoman of the Fashion Council Germany, a tour of the first level of the Bode Museum was developed with surprising juxtapositions of contemporary fashion designs and prominent works spanning epochs from the holdings of the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art.

Cultural history of clothing and fashion at the Bode Museum

There is hardly a more stylish place in Berlin than the rooms of the Bode Museum to present the designs of young fashion designers. For it is here in particular that the threads of the cultural history of clothing and fashion can be traced continuously from Roman times to the 19th century . Original items of clothing, footwear and accessories as well as artistic colorful knitwear of the highest craftsmanship quality can be found in the holdings of the Museum of Byzantine Art, which has the largest collection of original textiles from post-Pharaonic Egypt in Germany with around 2,000 pieces. To coincide with Fashion Week, the textile display case in room 113 will be restocked with representative examples of late antique clothing.

Clothing customs and fashion trends in the sculpture collection

In a different way, the sculpture collection with its masterpieces of Western art provides an insight into the clothing customs and fashion trends of various European countries over the centuries. Whether spartanly restrained, emphasizing physicality or with intoxicatingly opulent draperies, displaying power and wealth, expressing conformity or individuality - the sculptures by renowned artists such as Bernini, Donatello or Riemenschneider illustrate all these aspects that have always characterized fashion. They can be found transposed into the present day in the models of this summer's Fashion Week participants.

The exhibition is supported by Museum&Location.

A special presentation of the Berliner Salon in collaboration with the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin