The days of Berlin being known as the „Trashy Capital“ of Europe fashion are gone… Its official: Berlin is a “Fashion City”. And the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week-Berlin has become, almost single-handedly, responsible for this transformation. But limited size and seating capacity has meant that only a chosen few have been able to enjoy this peek into the Berlin fashion world. But this summer…

American Soulfood meets New York Chinatown:
Its the mid 1970’s…..On the 5th floor of a high-rise office building on Canal Street, in the middle of Chinatown, New York, there were two loft apartments. One was occupied by Jon Moressi, the Creative Director of some fashion magazine and the other was a mysterious office where on the door it said “Homey Chow- Private Detective”.
It was not really known what was went on inside, but when Mr. Moressi looked out his peephole at 5 in the morning he would see people like Andy Warhol, Miles Davis or Bruce Lee going into this mysterious Private Detective office….. And the smell that came out was a heavenly mix of Chinese dumplings, fried chicken and strangely enough, waffles……

The Creative Director had another one of his “ideas”. He wanted a „German Bad Boy“ for an upcoming editorial and film he’ll be directing next summer and I got the assignment to find this bad boy and set up the shoot….

Photographer Oliver Rath