Berlin is currently the focal point of the European fashion industry, offering companies within the field of fashion excellent potential for growth and development. Among the annual highlights of the city are certainly the Berlin Fashion Week and the fashion fair Bread & Butter, but also otherwise Berlin has much to offer as a center of attraction for the fashion industry within Europe. Approximately 800 designers and fashion labels are responsible for the new trends coming out of Berlin. A plethora of networks, showrooms and fashion trade fairs draw an international audience of industry professionals, buyers as well as celebrities from the modelling world. The unique concentration of emerging and established fashion schools in Berlin provides the city with a steady growth of successors. According to the Berliner Wirtschaftsverwaltung about 2.700 fashion businesses are located in Berlin with about 25.000 employees. In 2015, the total revenue has reached almost 5 billion Euro.
In comparison to other metropolitan areas, the cost of living is low and this includes rental prices for commercial properties. This encourages business ventures by giving them more scope for creativity. As the industry has evolved, it is not surprising that many of the Berlin fashion labels sell a large portion of their collections to the international market. Belonging to this impressive list of names are Sai So, C.Neeon, Kaviar Gauche, Talkingmeanstrouble, Miroike und Penkov, just to mention a few.
If you are working in the fashion & textile industry you might be eligible for economic promotion. You'll find the relevant information on the pages of Projekt Zukunft and on our site. But maybe crowdfunding is the right form of financing for you?
For this purpose, we recommend our own advisory service from Kreativ Kultur Berlin - in the area of non-commercial artistic work, you may be interested in the Cultural Funding Consultation. In the area of commercial independent commissioned work, we recommend the Creative Industries Consultation.
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Contact for the fashionsector at the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research
| Tanja Mühlhans, Tel: 030 / 9013 8335, E-Mail: Tanja.Muehlhans@senwtf.berlin.de
Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin (IDZ) | International design center Berlin
Verband deutscher Mode- und Textildesigner (VDMD) | Professional Representation for German fashion and textile designers in Germany
Fashion Sourcebook | a network since 2016 for Berlin fashion and textile designers
Fashion Council Germany (FCG) | special interest group for German fashion
Nemona | Network Fashion & Sewing Neukölln, workshops, consulting and events
circular.fashion | platform for the textile circular economy in Berlin
Future Fashion Forward | Association that promotes education in textile and fashion production. Particular emphasis is placed on sustainability, the environment, social standards and social justice
Deutsches Mode Institut | Research, analysis and communication of fashion trends
Labels Berlin | Property developers specializingin the fashion industry
Berlin Fashion Week| fashion show with top national and international designers
Business Location Center | fashion trade shows
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