- Title: German designer Gockel presents "Embraceland" at the Berlin Fashion Week
- Date: 20th January 2021
- Summary: ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** GOCKEL POSING FOR PICTURE BANNER READING "ANJA GOCKEL" (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN DESIGNER, ANJA GOCKEL, SAYING: "'Embraceland' is not about fancy evening dresses. 70% of my collection already was about daytime outfits: baggy, flexible designs. But now we have moved to 90% and that's why we were able to hire dancers in the first p
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- Keywords: Anja Gockel Berlin Fashion week coronavirus health pendemic winter collection
- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
- City: BERLIN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe,Fashion
- Reuters ID: LVA001DW0BXVX
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- Story Text: An outfit that feels like a jogging suit but makes you look like a diva: that is how German designer Anja Gockel describes her new winter collection "Embraceland", presented on Tuesday (January 19) at the Berlin Fashion Week.
The Mainz-based designer's new line was presented by 12 professional dancers with a choreography that allowed them to move freely around Berlin's luxury Adlon Hotel foyer, where the event was held.
She named her latest collection "Embraceland" as short for 'the land of embrace', hoping it would be understood as an expression of solidarity in times of the coronavirus pandemic.
"The coronavirus pandemic has changed my way of thinking. I now consider comfort even more important," Gockel told Reuters.
"With my collection you can now do a split without ripping the clothes," she added.
Gockel also celebrated the 25th anniversary of her fashion label on Tuesday, which was named one of the 30 most sustainable companies in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 2020.
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