“Fashion, models and shops – from catwalk icons to fashion influencers” – this is the title of the fashion report that will be shown on WDR on Friday. The film puts western Germany in the limelight through the perspective of fashion.
A wide variety of questions are explored: How has fashion in North Rhine-Westphalia changed in the digital age? How important is the former fashion metropolis of Düsseldorf today? And: who are the future fashion designers of the West?
The reporters return to the birth of the North Rhine-Westphalian capital as the fashion center of the West: the first fashion show on the Kö, 1949. It takes a close look at where the city got its business-minded reputation and how the Kö became one of the most important shopping streets in Germany. Following in the footsteps of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, supermodel Claudia Schiffer and fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, the makers of the film explore the role of the West as a source of inspiration and fashion stage in the eighties and nineties.
The reference to the present is also taken into account: the influencers Julia Zwingenberg from Cologne and Carmen Kroll – better known as Carmuska, her alias on social media – as well as young model Grace Epolo from Leverkusen report on contemporary developments in the fashion industry. The report also gives an insight into the fashion groups Gerry Weber, based in Halle, and C&A, based in Düsseldorf.
The report will be broadcast at 8:15 p.m. on WDR television.