catholic architecture. and one of the world's cultural treasures. a never ending construction site. for tourists. cologne cathedral joining us as we explore the history of this imposing house of worship. you can see joel starting march twenty ninth on d w. everyone welcome to the show here's what we've got coming up for you today. mix and match what to wear this spring and summer.

tello and champagne italian delicacies and eastwood chocolates. and wings and trail crazy works of cops abusing the help of insects. to start off let's get you up to date with the upcoming fashion trends the weather is still winter here in europe but the shop windows are already filled with the latest designs for the warmest season we met up with an experts in distilled off to find out what's new and who knows you might be able to reuse some of your outfits from a few decades ago. spring twenty eighteen is going to be while every rule can be broken especially when it comes to combining. fashion journalist zuckerberg has been in the business for twelve years. with the

help of a model in just a little fashion clinic shop she explains what to expect from the designers spring and summer collection. and i'm a major focus in fashion right now is actually daring to break rules combining what seems on combine a book you can do that really nicely with materials and patterns in the in this case an abstract floral print is combined with stripes and the stripes are picked up again on our shoes after all the file motif shows up again on the pants. another trend wearing many layers one on top of the other ideally oversized. i mean you have to be a little careful about the silhouette so that it looks good as a whole with a blouse company to loman the sweater should be too short you have to achieve a certain harmony. in terms of color palette the spring collection could hardly be

more fresh almost all designed as a favorite and delicate sounds that can be easily combined. on the one hand you've got the cholesterols very powdery tunnels but on the other end you have see the glaring hole is to set against those times. what's new is that these glaring colors can now also be worn together. as a compliment after ten years ago or the complimentary colors like purple and orange couldn't be combined now they can the louder the crazier the better that's a motif we're seeing among whites. and another trend that was long scoffed at is making a comeback double denim right now almost anything goes when wearing dennis dennis. across almost the right c.c. pieces a denim that can be combined even of different washes for the light. convenient as

always all right now we're all facing a lot of damned patchwork of all. hatch well i don't know here different pieces are put together to make one pair of trousers. and the ninety's are back expect leotards and bathing suits with high cut legs. so feel free to go out in a shiny tracksuit you can spot this trend in shop windows of stores like media or city center here the designer clothes on sale are pretty daring the ninety's influence is apparent in the transparent sympathetic fabrics and flip flops. no more we are the experimentation with logos to the trend of the one nine hundred ninety s. for the now the biggest of the grand scale that they are hiding them anymore but boldly putting them right out there yeah and when i'm not taking it all for granted not now showing way but more soft confidently. yeah i have

a few that's the standard. spring is also bringing something for those who prefer design classics the trenchcoat is back the one hundred year old classic getting a make over. there wasn't classic on the trenchcoat is a classic and now they have reinterpreted it with far more volume so that's the new styling idea but a trench coat is always a good investment it's one of my favorite pieces of clothing you should always have one in the closet so one of the envelopes. next to trench coats you'll also be seeing be transparent raincoats and at the very least those will keep you dry and fashionable this spring in europe. let's get you up to date with what's happening across. the continent now we start

off with a collector's favorite it's almost time for the world cup so many people are getting ready to fill their sticker books as part of a longstanding pre-tournament tradition. this week the official panini photo sticker albums for the twenty eight thousand world cup will a period of one hundred thirty different countries each album has eighty pages there's room for eighteen players stickers from each of the thirty two participating countries plus lots of extra stickers it takes six hundred eighty two stickers to fill an entire album sometimes fans have to do some trading to get the stickers that want the first panini sticker album appeared in the italian city of modi not in the early one nine hundred sixty s. . there's an unusual exhibition right now in london it features characters and sets from the animation film i live docks about one thousand figures were assembled

for the stop motion found many of them in different sizes the film used a total of two hundred forty micro scents and most of them can be seen in the exhibition. the plots of the film can fight this the manner of a big japanese city band's own dogs to a garbage dump called trash island and jamboree travels to the island to try and find his dog spot. also in london madame tussauds has found a new way to protect the british royal family standing on the balcony of buckingham palace. the family often gather there for important events. but the exhibition is not yet quite complete megan markel and prince harry will make their debuts only after their marriage in may and kate and william's children will appear later to probably after the couple's third child was born.

next up well off to italy the city of belonging is nicknamed like good asset which translates to the fat but it's a compliment because in italy belong a is regarded as the capital city of m to pasty since november it is also the home of the world's biggest agriculture and food park with over a kilometer of shops ahead of the east to feast my colleague mike a clue go wanted to check out what the pun tass take eataly world has to offer. if your mouth doesn't start watering here it's time to seek medical help almost everything you could ever desire of italian cuisine you see it on about twenty hectic and with easter coming up i see lots having to do with this major holiday. some business friends bicycle to see everything me too it's maybe the world's largest and theme park visitors can grocery shop eat and take home.

i'm trying to burn some calories that because i would try to put together a perfect manual for easter and hopefully i will learn a little bit more about that it's a good cuisine today. that. for starter is often bread sauce each of them for easter it should be something special i selected the king of found a cool latte it's dry for up to two years until it's perfect. for easter and christmas week slices of ham for starters. and they're going to take a little is best in wafer thin slices so it goes best with a glass of champagne. and many countries noodles are a make homes easily they're just a first course i personally love. which means fresh notice but i've never made them

myself and that's exactly why i'm taking part of this newly workshop one hundred grams of flour and tonight you go to make the dough but just rolling it out is a challenge the don't just cut into the desired shape this best serves utensil it's simply not one of the bases for many different kinds of noodles traister i don't for just i mean. yeah but the normal good. old. all off. so while i eat a meal so this is a. every day even as it is very very important every day. to be told alone fit in our case with cheese and passion in the first foliage into a triangle and then the end suppressed again. that's easy.

to you it's takes me several tries before it finally likes to eat. before. the main course i have enough of sampling i have been to one of the many restaurants of the world. is almost always make. a typical east to dish roast lamb. the old wine white wine and wraps and we say oh we. bought these on she's been doing it at least. i do it's a little bit of you know your ways to say i really didn't say yes. for my simple meal i'm sitting here although that would normally be crowded the whole family comes together for easter.

italian families like to the main course with a little fruit. and fruit is made either by machine all by hot menu. abode with freshly squeezed juice in this case blood orange and some wanted sugar storage for a long expression. which really is outside right. the last course of the holiday meal is chocolate of course appropriately for easter it's an. back fresh from the chocolate challenge and this workshop we make it with knots coconut flakes a chocolate chips. and on its own put together. and wrapped up nicely. finally i found a cup of coffee. after one day in the eating in the long yeah i've eaten the lots

and the thought of. the most important thing about and east of the menu in eataly is a pause time because this can take a couple of hours. as a souvenir i'm like a typical giant he said in my shopping basket it's been a very busy day but now they're ready for stuff. well mike is all set for easter but what's your favorite holiday season all this week we're running a poll on our website to find out what you most like to celebrate just give us your answer on d.w. dot com slash lifestyle and you'll be entered into the prize draw with a chance of winning an exclusive euro max wristwatch next up we're getting to know . we may share a name but we most definitely don't have the same hobby next proof a has been dubbed the insect whisperer and has a unique gift when it comes to creepy crawlies and fact that collaborates is in his

office. swoons of months with quivering wings make raps about. by instinct must follow the moon and end up drawn irresistibly and often fatal to artificial light the. image depicts at a section a track set by the artist on which the insect creates the work. has come of them in the thick to force them into the way it's done is with a very fine coating on paper that you have become be removed by the smallest movement within and so you can see the color of the paper underneath those and it's so sensitive that even the tracks of a man become visible on a hill all victims by drop a hand you can see its trace is the function of. ants running inside to

cylinders one of them found a way out seen by right. most males during nap patterns. what are the tracks have to tell us. that wind as a creature take this path how do they act as a group and how might they be manipulated for snails only have to do is to the surface. that's like this of the it shows one of the basic principles that all creatures have learned through evolution to use as little energy as the possible so we tend to take because as far be clear it's no different with snails just so you can get a whole group of snails to head in the same direction of the of the of the gear. and the creatures proof it works with are of course also symbolic for us human beings after all he says we are products of nature first even if the artificial

parallel worlds we create make us forget that fact more now. you must always works outside except in winter when he moves back into his arms bugs studio . maximally and can for doesn't think of nature as a romantic place but as a highly extraordinary construct that has fascinated him since childhood these butterflies are taken from old collections that he dies or seeds as gifts. it's important to him that no living creature come to harm through his activities. but a fine art has long been an element of kitsch. but the sees another dimension and that time. it was there for this image that used to be a part of a living creature becomes a like us but it has no author no creator for its one hundred thirty five million years of evolutionary history are allegorize doesn't image an abstract image of

evolution. it will it so. that's a million proof as butterflies are currently under splay at southern til the end of march. this work is about waiting. brain is the. sky itself. what controls on movement will our imagination

a subconscious. maximally and poof is ours has something to say about. humans may not control but we can invite him to make us. and what a fantastic artist mother nature is now we move on from six legged creatures to another one of my five reports this time we're looking at that's quite clever optical illusions are a favorite for a five featured european artists and when it comes to their pieces it's all a matter of perspective here ah. five european artists whose works will have you taking a second or third look. british artist howard lee reminds us that seeing should always be believing. were you able to tell which of those hot dogs

cams or popsicles was not the real mccoy. our number five artists who make you do a double take. howard lee when it comes to hyper realistic drawings he certainly has the force. but he's truly great. stuff is a veritable feast for. courtesy of german artists. there's the full range of meat products from sausages and ham to mincemeat except the only appetite they'll satisfy is of the home accessories variety number four in our list of intriguing artists who happens to be terry and every item you see in butcher's shop is actually a cushion made of fabric she stopped over forty products in her store. over

in london the historic covent garden market appears to have crumbled overnight and is now levitating. in fact it's one of a number of installations across the city. number three master of optical illusions . he specializes in fake facades such as this building which appears to have been flipped upside down. while this house in the town of margate seems to be sliding down into the from the brilliant. it's all a question of perspective. illustrated by the work of this artist you have to be in precisely the right spot to see them mind. effects. number two in all selection of office who revel in deception they own. being a computer buff comes in handy for the dutchman to walk to mind the effect of his extraordinary paintings the first works open on his laptop before translating them

onto the street with a critic paint. who's the dummy he is then this body paint this as her own canvas she's also managed to get her stomach time i didn't know and. decapitate herself. the number one artist to make she took twice serbian body paint milosevic aka kiko you tube channel has had millions of views many tubes of trickery all paint a black background and no shortage of ingenious ideas. well now let's move into the digital space heiko has made his name as an actor in germany before going to hollywood in two thousand and nine was there that he discovered motion capture body suits adorned with small trackers that make it possible to record movements used to animate virtual characters the technology was

made famous by and the. goal and the lord of the rings series and now high school obama is using it to make waves in the video game industry. this is what it looks like when a video game active or has a seeing movements one there whether it's the technology an amazing man or the man an amazing new technology. but like a wet suit the body seems as padded with almost fifty light marcus traces at the inside at this point you lose your self-consciousness because everyone looks the same as what you get used to it it's fantastic no fancy outfits fancy go through. in this little seem annoyed animation studio forty three year old tech i plays a scene for three d. production. the cameras installed on sense record high to open its movements via the light markings on a suit creation

a kind of human scale and the taser is used to shake a digital character who was then placed in a virtual world here haiku as a conductor of an old trem on a journey to clone as it once was. well that's what's reason we don't have a big sell it's more like when children play one says this is the driver's compartment for the tram from nineteen ten to this it's. awesome bond four notes in that seat and the other kid says yeah i get it. here's the break here the gears that's obvious go. for now the animated digital characters still need real humans as models bots that's what it boiled down but. vision is trained to read human body language and facial expressions and it so is if you want to produce them out officially they would never be as good as the ones you create using motion capture the market for digital virtual acting is huge not least because of american

computer games like don yeah i can play the nazi again is a worldwide bestseller. one strawberry milkshake please. oh well if you don't have a fire take that to put out it's still come back another time that the elephant that of the team that the resources as and the number of people are reaches are incredible and i think that hollywood recognized that early on and began making big investments also in terms of casting and production so that now the budget is sometimes bigger than hollywood films so it's the revenue you can make of the video game. i know it's a good feeling the brunt from the man from cologne is moved back to the run up to a cannes of hollywood and the long distance relationship is why from to shop and from kind of. to i just wanted my daughter to grow up together with my parents and her karen swift's grandparents i didn't want to live with ten thousand kilometers

distance between us and her only seeing them once a year at christmas. that would have broken my heart goes out to the bar so he left and i got my stuff when i was happy there but it never felt like home not like cologne does some motion capture acting as not having fun it's made it possible for haiku banana to come back home. that's all from us i am by lynn but we'll be back again tomorrow so do join us you can stay up to date with all things your max on facebook and instagram d w your box of life and out. on the next edition of your own. british artist stephen welcher has the ability to draw an entire city scapes from memory alone one look at the skyline or a flight over the city is enough and he can recall every essential detail as a toddler stephen was diagnosed with autism his drawings are now sell for up to two

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