everyday lives and language can just come out of. your hand yeah. like a brick i d w dot com the german. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to our latest edition and before we get started with some crystal ball gazing on the fashion front here's a quick look at what's coming up. on. a belgian fashion designer take paris by storm. last places a german photographer transports us to abandon location. and

subway serenade a polish oboist goes underground in berlin. and we start off in paris the city of fashion and this week even more so is the press report a show's showcase the trends for next spring and summer a french fashion label why project was particularly hotly awaited head designer glenn martin is a protege of french designers. and it shows his creations are like a new hybrid of street where and elegant and so we caught up with him backstage. with barely an hour to go before his latest creations if the catwalk thirty three year old glenn martin splits around backstage nipping and talking and making sure everything fits perfectly right. i even used to put on sunglasses because i'd been. so nervous about the show

workers it is i don't want anyone to see my eyes and realize how terrorized and stressed i was at that if it is up to a professor. but he need not have worried everything is going very nicely for him right now recently glenn martin's won the coveted on dom fashion award with his cash first of two hundred fifty thousand euros. intended to give talented young designers a boost the award was based in part on these creations. that is cool because the jury that is supposed the award is made up of key figures in the fashion industry and i tell myself if they thought i deserve this award that it was about amounts to a wonderful confirmation they could give us a quick. denmark and has been creative director of the french why project label since two thousand and thirteen. he creates fashions for both men and women some of his pieces are unisex. his very latest women's collection is among his most

adventurous coach dresses was trains. shorts brampton or guns are. spiral still at zero. shirts with four sleeves. legs that show skin oh yeah what i'm aiming for is to show a person's various sides we all have several facets sometimes you're more a business person sometimes more lover or a party or. you should give expression to these different moods but whether sexy a classical or street where often you can achieve that with a single piece of clothing and with that when you're in that frame of mind and you put on your look at the person and the outfit become a unified whole the set up it's on a sort of all the. clint martin's approach to constructing and deconstructing items of clothing as routes to run deep. before he attended the fashion academy and were. he completed his studies in architecture. he draws inspiration from

historical buildings and personalities. my father often took me to churches and chateaus and taught me about history i was totally fascinated by it as a child when i started to draw i always sketched historical figures like a hole in cleopatra and ran to a natural sort of their clothing was very important for me because i knew clothes make the man more because these influences can still be found in my collections today even though they're modern. with all that i could it's not a good message at all but. these designs are historical and of on guard all at once the visual medium the skirt made from blue nylon is reminiscent of marie antoinette and the renaissance of people in this but the idea behind it is that it's three skirts and one and that gives it a certain volume of. martin's ingenious combinations of one over the fashion world in paris. critics here rave about whose extravagant creations is this classic

touch from the thing came from the ancient periods but we do this straight to a tourist and i find this one of the most innovative brain because of this kind of . makes that he can maybe made it actually is not straight where is the altar to but these something you and i always i mean color scheme is to see i've watched it evolve you know in his own collection and ever since he started why project in the beginning it was tough the first couple seasons but it was great watching it it's seeing it you get stronger and stronger and nike is one of the rare designers now that has a signature and it's playing with volumes playing with his history playing with graphics he's great. celebrities i've also discovered when my.

r. and b. singer eon is also a fan so are top models better and g.g. i did. maybe they'll find the perfect on fit in his latest collection. but right now glen martin's is simply glad the show's over and he's off to celebrate with his team. onwards now with our grab bag of the other culture headlines our express. the shortlist exhibition for the prize stand that's not gallery full many of the national gallery prizes for young ons well open friday in berlin this year the four nominees are all women it's all planned all. jumana money and agony. the prize is awarded every two years to artists under the age of forty you live and work in germany it's one of the country's top awards for young artists the winner will be announced oct twentieth. the monaco yacht show is underway one

hundred twenty five super yachts with an estimated total worth of three point three billion euros have docked in money carla for the event the show features five hundred eighty exhibitors from thirty eight countries. luxury and perfection are still important features but eco friendly this is this year's top trend the monaco yacht show held annually this year's edition ends on the thirtieth of september. the italian town of cremona is hosting the fifth stradivari festival it opened with a concert by a russian conductor and violinist sergei crooner. eight priceless instruments from the town's violin museum were featured including four made by antonio. he lived interim owner in the seventeenth century and is considered to be

the best violin maker the world has ever seen. well they've been in history for over thirty five years now but for diehard fans of the swedish pop band the music simply goes on and they're not wrong about that because now benny andersson their erstwhile pianist and songwriter of greatest hits has more where that came from on friday his new solo album of piano tunes comes out with a regional songs and reinterpreted hits that will bring a tear to many a true friend. he was the composer of baba's many hits and the band's pianist. benny andersson. and he's still tickling the ivory is today.

here he plays i was song thank you for the music. on the show and discovered his love of the piano at a very early age and i was six i had a little accordion so that they they told me one one song that i could play together with them and then from that all night i took myself first to play the accordion together with them and then i had a piano when i was ten and from the day i had the piano i've been sitting and. you know benny on the show has recorded a solo album simply entitled piano it features piano renditions of abos old hits as well as music he's composed for other projects yes you can just be i mean i don't know what the heck i almost never play my old songs anymore and then. maybe i'm playing something from my musical chest so i thought i'd make a record with only old songs sorry i'm at bar i got old man plays old songs on the

piano because but i got a lot up on news so thank you. bob a shot to fame in one nine hundred seventy four when they won the year of vision song contest with waterloo. the swedish group became world famous overnight. benny andersson was considered the band's musical genius he wrote the melodies and arranged the songs despite the fact that he couldn't read music they were in the studio that wasn't a problem. still under sean never dreamed that i would become so successful. we did not expect that. we tried to do good work how we tried his band this much time as we had trying to write first write the songs then record them and the best way we could and then just go on to the next song do the same thing so it's about where.

the nine hundred seventy two benny andersson founded on but with his future wife funny feeling stuff. and a married couple i need to feds call him beyond holding us. over the next decade they released eight studio albums that spawn some thirty international yes. this week just group has sold around four hundred million records today. i was split up in one nine hundred eighty two by then both couples had divorced and anderson and old tales were already collaborating on the musical chess. but while working on the musical mamma mia which debuted in one nine hundred ninety nine benny and dion revisited their days with out. on the song and already it was also created the swedish musical christina funder

more about a swedish immigrant family. these days understand perform swedish folk songs and his own compositions with his benny understands orchestra. compared with the eck declines he led during. the seventy year old has slowed down somewhat. i wake up in the morning as late as possible apart from my dad i go to go to the gym twice a week so i wake up a little earlier then but i walk the dog first thing i go to the office i sit down at the piano and i pray a little try to try to create some new music which very rarely happens but i sit there. composing new interpretations of his old songs is always a special experience for him. so this morning i am never the fat dad and i stopped that when we were almost finished with the recording and with put it together. and this is a fact it's not like

a musical autobiography. you get have you got. any on the show his new album piano comes out this friday. well now on to a photographer who specializes in what he calls the conquest of nature then find him i wandered all over europe seeking out places where human architecture is being reclaimed whether it be castle smothered in ivy or crumbling church walls shot through with roots with patience and a keen eye he documents the sometimes slow transformation or dramatic destruction wrought by time and the elements and he showed us some of his secret home. when nature begins to reclaim what human hands of built in solitude fills holes in rooms once full of life. reveals a moment of beauty. the time is right to rediscover

lost places. spent phantom a is a computer specialist by trade but at heart he's an official nado of crumbling architecture where ever in europe it may be. this time it's the inside of an old sewage plant close to where he lives in western germany. it's stood empty for over twenty years. to help i know it's an impressive success of on the seven of us from new york it's just a very unique and magnificent art nouveau hall like yardley ever see anymore five the architecture is quite exceptional. and of even after i've seen so many

different kinds of buildings and a lot of odd new architecture it's not i'm still impressed every time i see architecture with soul and i think to him it's the unity of the so it's a bit like old cars from the one nine hundred sixty s. where you can say this car really has character it's the same with his old buildings and avoided. the whole dates back to one thousand nine hundred nine and it was supposed to have been torn down decades ago after it was closed various proposals for revitalizing it were put forward as a creative workshop an indoor climbing center or as artist studios nothing came of them at least spend it to make art with his camera after. eats away at the metal the reinforced concrete and the paint peels. magic revealing the beauty in death and decay the central perspective. and inspires the imagination.

how did the treatment plant. what did the sewage gurgling sound like and who used to work here. sven's task is essentially to uncover what is hidden and remember what's been forgotten. and he prefers to work alone he takes no one along who might help him when he takes his pictures in the derelict edifices. what'd happened over the years you develop a good feel for many of us situational sets where you don't feel safe you just don't go there for safety comes first and you can't make any compromises even if it means doing without a subject or to learn about staying alive is more important and even talk with the . many of his fellow lost places photographers upload their work to the internet and publishes his and comprehensive photo albums his latest album with images from

all over europe is called an oil and. an automobile junkyard in belgium. first came the junk then came the tree. the protestant church in poland. a villa on lago majority italy. once the people move on nature moves in. as with this entire village in southern italy. are missing is a central importance to me is. small we humans really are. we always see ourselves as the kings of creation as if we could control everything. but my teacher always shows us very emphatically just how small we really are like this.

branch of the structures. to claim them for itself. something of its own beauty and tranquility. well now to an exercise in controlled greenery in the city and many people have caught on to the trend of urban gardening even if you only have a balcony while one couple in the croatian capital zagreb have converted an entire apartment into a food source and so we went to see what. high rise. these communist era apartment blocks in zagreb are part of a green revolution micro grains are grown here the global trend towards urban gardening is blossoming in croatia a few years back. and his wife sprouts in london and were thrilled.

very few people were growing them in croatia. so they decided to cultivate them. but why did they choose to do it in an apartment building. all of which is that he's a micro greens need constant attention you must take care of them tend to them. we thought it would be best to grow them in our building so we bought another apartment. we live on the twenty first floor and grow the greens on the seventeenth . storms rain direct sunlight frost and snow on the seventeenth floor or some coriander don't have to worry about the elements. by bugs. the plants grow quickly without fertilizers or any other chemicals. and that's great news for local chefs.

we supply around twenty restaurants in zagreb and a few more between. there exclusively top addressing. marco petrovich a big name in zagreb call unary same as one of their regular clients but that's. all that everything's organic on get. at the. one of the most popular drinks that is. garnished with crest and edible flowers all grown in. concrete jungle. well if you're into crafts and interior design then you probably already know our d.i.y. expert francisca it is she loves to have a hand in perking up your home with bright ideas and in this week's episode she does that quite literally.

i know my name is going through that and today i was showing you how to make you really original from an loggerhead you need this sort of wooden model hand used for drawings that is what you can buy from an absent plies shop on the internet. a light socket with a plaque and a switch which you can get from a d.i.y. store online. as take advantage of this possible you can find them an interior design shop. a flat picture frame work and the necessary screws. and causes screwdriver. attach the hook to the flat back of the hand. keeps the hook with the two screws. so why ask threaded through the hand makes the females and so take can not to drill through it. and this is how the

hand looks with a hook. now screw the bob into the socket. hang the hand on the thick nail screw on the wall. wrap the call two or three times around the hand if you like you can fix it with a piece of wire in the same color as the electricity cable and now all you need is power. turned the light on and you've got the size of a original lamp that hardly anyone else has at home. and if you want you can also have the hand entirely only hit the nail. and for more fun and quirky ideas on how to brush up your own interior just go to our new you tube channel w. design. and we finish off with our series and today's protectionists will make you want to pack up and come to berlin to scour the city's underground just to hear the

melancholy sound of his old bowl for three years now there has been busking here with the dream of joining a professional orchestra and let's hope he's now a few steps closer to fulfilling its. i'm sure feel to my name's pierce father and i come from sketchy in poland i think playing the oboe for sixteen years i love this instrument and store and my dream is to play in an orchestra not so much i couldn't find any work as an orchestra musician in poland so i came to berlin six. you have to go see.

for three years twenty eight year old pinto bada has been playing in berlin some police stations he grew up in tuscan to spec a stand and completed his music studies in poland. divide after that survival and thus gained share i worked for two years in the theatre opera house and ballet and can tidy my left up then i came to such scenes each and studied at the music academy there for five years is it snuffs which. he plays in the subway station several hours a day six days a week. usually but out so if you play for ten hours you might make fifty euros but most young people tend to be disinterested. but of course she'll the passer by is love classical music will see which ones. he wants from buddah pays the rent for his room and from what he earns in the

subway he also supports his mother who lives in touch on a small pension. child when i try to save a little money every month so i can buy a new instrument. is a very expensive. but i need one so i can play in a real orchestra. of a busking in the train station this is just temporary my goal is to play in a real orchestra one day so it says the boy you know ok she's gorgeous. and that's all for this edition until next time. next time x. . bianca this latest creation looks like a bunch of colorful building blocks stacked up on top of one another. but what else would you expect from the new lego museum rediscover your child next time.

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