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The Defining Collections.
Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027 has officially wrapped, delivering another season of boundary-pushing design. Across the German capital, established names and emerging talents presented collections that reflected Berlin’s distinctive creative spirit, where experimentation, sustainability and subculture continue to shape the conversation around contemporary fashion.
With a packed schedule of runway shows, presentations and installations, PAUSE Magazine rounds up the standout collections from Berlin Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027. Take a look at our top picks below.
Orange Culture
If there’s one thing Orange Culture isn’t afraid of, it’s colour. Founded by Adebayo Oke-Lawal, Orange Culture has long used fashion as a vehicle for storytelling, blending deeply personal narratives with conversations around identity, culture and masculinity. For Spring/Summer 2027, the Lagos-based label looked to Makoko, the historic waterfront community on the edge of the Lagos Lagoon. As its starting point, the collection drew inspiration from a place well known for its resilience, contrast and everyday beauty.
Rather than leaning into nostalgia, Oke-Lawal translated Makoko’s vibrant rhythm into a collection saturated with bold colour. Think cobalts as blue and appealing as the sea, vivid reds and yellows bright enough to lighten up your day. The result? A collection that balances emotional depth with striking visual impact, reaffirming why the label remains one of the most compelling voices on the contemporary African fashion landscape. Orange Culture did it again.
View the full collection coverage on PAUSE here.
GmbH
For Spring/Summer 2027, GmbH turned its attention to Berlin’s past, present and future, an idea that may feel familiar or overused on paper but was executed with renewed clarity. Titled “Desire Paths,” the collection explored the city’s evolving relationship with fashion, reflecting on the people, places and cultural movements that have shaped its identity while looking ahead to what comes next.
Designers Serhat Işık and Benjamin Alexander Huseby blended historical references with reimagined pieces drawn from GmbH’s own archive, revisiting some of the label’s most recognisable designs from the past decade. Rather than dwelling on nostalgia, the collection used its own history as a foundation, presenting a confident vision of where both the brand and Berlin’s fashion scene are headed.
View the full collection coverage on PAUSE here.
UNVAIN
For Spring/Summer 2027, UNVAIN looked to the cult British television series “Skins” as the starting point for a collection centred on identity, self-expression and the personas we construct. Titled SKINS, the collection explored clothing as the space between the individual and the outside world, examining fashion’s role as both armour and personal statement.
Rather than beginning with visual references or seasonal trends, each look was developed from a single written sentence describing a character. These fictional portraits became the foundation for the collection, with garments built outward from personality traits, emotions and attitudes. The result was a character-driven offering that felt deeply personal, reinforcing UNVAIN’s interest in storytelling as a tool for design. Overall, the concept was clever and captivating to say the least.
View the full collection coverage on PAUSE here.
DAGGER
Noticing a pattern?
Leaning further into the season’s fascination with nostalgia, DAGGER looked to the messy realities of growing up for Spring/Summer 2027. Titled “Lifestyles of the Bored and Disenfranchised”, designer Luke Raine drew on the spirit of the early 2000s, capturing the awkwardness, rebellion and freedom that defined adolescence at the turn of the millennium.
Rather than romanticising the era per se, the collection reflected its formative moments, from first kisses and heartbreak to dead-end jobs and the bitter taste of a first cigarette. Those memories were translated into clothes that balanced youthful angst with self-expression, resulting in a collection that felt both deeply personal and universally familiar.
View the full collection coverage on PAUSE here.
HADERLUMP
HADERLUMP found inspiration in architecture and autobiography for Spring/Summer 2027. Titled ATRIUM, the collection takes its name from the central courtyard of an ancient Roman house, a space designed to bring light and nature into the heart of the home.
For Creative Director Johann Ehrhardt, the concept also carried a deeply personal meaning. Drawing on his early experience training as a waiter at Berlin’s Park Inn hotel, Ehrhardt reflected on a formative period defined by discipline, repetition and strict hierarchies. Those contrasting references came together in a collection that balanced structure with transforming personal memory into a thoughtful exploration of space, routine and identity.
PHOTO CREDIT: All Images Courtesy of Respective Brands
