It seems that I am not the only Berlin fashion week novice this season. So too, well kind of, are Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Isik of GmbH. I know, I know, what a crazy thing to say.
GmbH has become synonymous with—kickstarted, in fact—the whole idea that Berlin is a hotbed of wildly creative fashion renegades who have plenty to say. Except for the entirety of their label’s life, Huseby and Isik opted to take GmbH to Paris for the men’s shows. For spring 2025, however, they decided to show in the city in which they live, create, and work, aka Berlin.
“It has been amazing, because our experience of being here has intensified in the last year, good and bad,” Isik said backstage. “But it felt like it was really important to do something in Berlin right now.” Huseby added, “And being able to bring all of our friends that wouldn’t normally have been able to travel to see our show, and to have the musicians play.
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” “We’ve been wanting to work for a long time with live classical Middle Eastern musicians,” said Isik. “And because we had connections to them in Berlin..
.” So, a homecoming then, and a rightly rapturously received one, even if the weather wasn’t playing along. The GmbH guys had decided to show on the sweeping roof of the Tempodrom performance center where many of the city’s shows are being held this week, and rain—of the incessant and deceptively dampening variety—held up play for a little while.
Yet as their mini orches.
