Fashion Forward 2009 / Director: Marco Wilms
Comrade Couture
”Comrade Couture” is not a critique but rather a celebration of the GDR’s uninhibited fashion underground, which survived perhaps because of its small and secretive nature. In the film, Wilms – together with Schäfer, von Oettingen and others – winds up trying to recapture the spirit of the scene by recreating some of the strawberry-plastic-andshower-curtain designs and staging a fashion show in his Berlin flat, a former squat.
– CAROLINE WINTER, DER SPIEGEL
A tiger that lives in a cage is much wilder than a tiger that is free to roam.
– GDR HAIR STYLIST FRANK SCHÄFER
Germany (2009)
Duration: 82 min
Dialogue: German
Subtitles: English
Duration: 82 min
Dialogue: German
Subtitles: English
