“Berlin Fashion Week is THE focal point when it comes to zeitgeist and future-oriented topics. Above all, sustainability, innovative technologies, and networks. Therefore, it is more important than ever to be aware of these values and their significance for the future. With our FCGFiresidechats, we want to give this greater emphasis within the framework of BFW and advance it together , ” says Mandie Bienek (Chairwoman of the FCG).

As is tradition, on the first day of Berlin Fashion Week, the Fashion Council Germany hosted FCGFiresidechats at the Hotel Zoo. This networking event for the German fashion industry, supported by the five editorial teams of Bunte , GQ , Harpar's Bazar , ICON , and FCGFiresidechats, welcomed 175 high-profile guests from the fashion and media worlds, including well-known creatives and celebrities such as Marie Nasemann, Franziska Knuppe, Wana Limar, Mandy Bork, Nadine Warmuth, Bettina Zimmermann, Anja Kling, Lea van Acken, and Minh-Khai Phan-Thi.

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As hosts of the evening, Christiane Arp (VOGUE GERMANY), Inga Griese (ICON), Constantin Herrmann (GQ), Robert Pölzer (BUNTE) and Kerstin Schneider (HARPER'S BAZAAR) discussed sustainability, networks and technology together with Mark Bezner (Olymp), Thorsten Mindermann (H&M), Alexandra Bondi de Antoni ( Vogue.de ), Petra Fladenhofer (KaDeWe), Gina Condé (Liebeskind), Kerstin Pooth (Jack Wolfskin), Daniel Terberger (KATAG), William Fan (Designer), Ramona Pop (Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises), Dorothee Bär (Minister of State for Digital Affairs), Michelle Müntefering (Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office) and many others.

Scott Lipinski (CEO of FCG) commented on the extraordinary

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Support for the media partnerships is as follows: “The Council is delighted about the fantastic media partnership for this FCGFIRESIDECHAT – the aim and purpose of our event is to network and bring together industry representatives, for which this cooperation between publishing houses and editorial teams symbolically represents. Because solidarity is one of the important factors that the FCG always strives to expand within the German fashion industry.”

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