Toilet Paper Magazine – Artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari presented the latest issue of Toilet Paper Magazine last week, which is more of an art piece itself (only photos, no text).

For the occasion they got together with long-time supporter Disaronno and threw a launch party during Berlin’s Gallery Weekend at Picknick. As expected, lots of international art connoisseurs mingled with the Berlin crowd dancing the night away to Italian classics and folksongs and a great line-up of dj’s including Headman, Emil Doesn’t Drive, Jianca Bagger and Micki.

Check out some snapshots below and for more HERE.

Maxime Ballesteros (photographer & DSTM) & Jen Gilpin (DSTM) & Marcello Pisu:

From right to left: Anika Klussmann, the lovely Pauline & friend:

Italian actress Daniela Virgilio, the charismatic Disaronno mascot aka Jeppe and Paride Vitale (in love):

Wood Wood represent:

Sergio Tavello (Plastic, Milan), Paride Vitale, Elena Cicciu & Myriam Ben Salah (Palais de Tokyo, Paris):

B&B aka Benji & Björn:

Italians do it better: Maria & Georgia:

BAM:

Lindalein:

Daniela Virgilio & Paolo Dalla Mora (Disaronno):

Edward Buchanan (designer, SANSOVINO 6) & Livio Facchini:

The best: Micki.

Florian & Jeppe:

Dooooooriiii:

Shermine Shahrivar and almost-Berliners Omar&Chanel (He Met Her):

Alexis, Zeynab & Marcello:

Mr. Interview/Mr. 032c/Mr. Brunnenstrasse and for all the others Mr. Jörg Koch:

Mr. Toilet Paper: Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari.

And the other half of Toilet Paper Mag and the man of the hour: Artist Maurizio Cattelan.

FUTURE SELF – Our next MADE project is coming up this weekend!

FUTURE SELF is an interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk created by rAndom International and Wayne McGregor and scored by acclaimed Oscar nominated composer Max Richter, which studies human movement, additive interaction and what these may reveal about identity, today and in the years to come.

GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO EXPERIENCE ONE OF THE FUTURE SELF LIVE PERFORMANCES ON SUNDAY, APRIL 29

PLEASE CHOOSE ONE OF THE SHOWS:

SHOW II: 2:30 PM
SHOW III: 4:30 PM

Leading up to the project, we sat down with one of the project’s creators, Stuart Wood, director at media artist collective rAndom International.
Stuart presents rAndom International, and shares his team’s working process, as well as thoughts on drive and creativity.

And this just blows me away. Max Richter:

Tomorrow at SOTO: German label ekn footwear presents their colabo signature shoe with German musician Max Herre with a little live gig.

Since most of the Germans that were born in the late 70’s or in the 80’s grew up with the music of Max Herre and Freundeskreis, who played a major role in the German hip hip movement, we’re super psyched to have Max in the store tomorrow evening performing a couple of his new songs!

Lots of his songs like “A.N.N.A.”, “Tabula Rasa” and  “Mit Dir” bring back good old memories. (When we were young and the world was still okay). Haha!

Well, if you’re in town, come by for a drink and hang with us.

First love, baby! (This was back in 2004!)

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Working at SOTO.

“Shit people say at trade shows” – January was a busy month. Lots of trade shows, showrooms, new collections, meeting people and the whole shabang. It’s amazing that in 4-6 weeks time you see exactly the same people in 4 different cities. Designers, sales persons, buyers, pr… all the same. You just gotta love it.

After walking all these trade shows I think it’s definitely time for:

“Shit people say at trade shows”

I think the top 5 would be something like this:

1. “I hate trade shows” (Well, don’t go then)

2. “It’s so boring. Everything looks the same” (go look somewhere else)

3. “Well, it’s a sample. It will be much longer/tighter/shorter/softer.” (yeah right)

4. “However, we do have an order minimum” (yeah, me too)

5. “We work with pre-payment”. (fuck you)

Hahaha! I’m sure people that are in the same boat feel me right now.

After Florence and Berlin we hit Paris… here some snapshots…

Obviously, I’m getting the master bedroom in our apartment:

The WOR crew always makes us laugh:

At the Thom Browne show. Some mad Adam’s-Family-meets-Punk-meets-Frankenstein situation:

Dinner with my old crew from Amsterdam: Akim, Bir, Abby & the Staff International crew:

At Capsule:

At the new MAN show:

Dinner at Nanashi… Sandrine, Helena & Anais:

Samir & Max re-united:

Thanks for organizing, Alice!

Yorgus, Yue & Misla:

At Adam Kimmel:

The Tiger:

Sneak-peaking what they got:

Superb treatment at Acne as usual:

Followed by some serious meat at Ralph’s (yes, Ralph Lauren’s restaurant):

That’s 750 gramm!

Samir & Johan:

Probably the only time that all of us were quiet:

Paris Goodnight.

Last night’s THOM BROWNE show was literally a freak show: Adam’s Family meets Punk Rock meets Frankenstein! It was kind of hard-core.

Held at the” Galérie de Minéralogie et de Géologie” within the Botanical gardens the location was once again stunning.

I’m really looking forward to see the collection live in the showroom. With theses guys you never know what to expect…

Check the video and below to get a glimpse:

And here the happy ending of the show… please, note the little “penis-mouth connection”:

Karl-Osker Olsen, Wood Wood – Just before Wood Wood held their seasonal fashion show at the creative and multi-functional platform MADE, we sat down with Karl and took a look back the road and development Wood Wood, talked about his visions and the future of the brand.

Wood Wood has been a long-time favorite of mine ever since they introduced the brand in Germany and built a great team around it here in Berlin. (Laust aka Danish Dick aka the-missing-member-of-the-wolf-pack represent represent!) 

They always have some fresh pieces in their collection, very wearable with your daily outfit.

Pimp your brand knowledge right HERE!

Element Emerald Collection Launch – If you’re in Berlin, come join us today, Thursday, for the Element Emerald Collection Launch at MadeMyDay, Torstr. 66!

Some typical German food, some good old Jameson whiskey and lots of beers! Oh and for the dancers we got DJ Reznik from VICE/KeineMusik spinning some fine tunes.

One highlight is definitely artist Thomas Campbell who produced an exclusive art piece for the occasion.

RSVP and get more info HERE!

SOTO x STUSSY x HOLDEN Party – Tomorrow we proudly present a preview of the Stussy x Holden capsule collection which is followed by an after-party at Berlin’s newest club Flamingo for eerrrrbody!

We brought together a nice line-up of friends including Berlin’s finest Kaos and Micki, Soulland’s Silas, straight from Paris: Mimi aka Misty Rabbit and my brotha-from-another-motha Mehdi (replacing Kirikoo).

As a little highlight we have Mugler’s “Zombie Boy” aka Rico behind the decks!

Come dance with us right HERE!

Our latest Team MADE episode gives you a little glimpse into the Art Basel Miami fair itself.

Pretty cool to see some of the paintings and pieces live that you normally only read of. And of course super interesting to see some new stuff.

Check out more below and here!