One of the largest music – icons of our time, the legendary STEVIE WONDER is back on tour, having closed out as the final act at Glastonbury this year for the 40th anniversary event, The Tour is the sequel to his last, sensational and sold-out ‘A Wonder Summer Night Tour’ in 2008, with incredible reviews, the 25 times Grammy awards winner is sure to please his Berlin audience on Tuesday evening.
The Zitadelle is also host to further international acts throughout the remainder of 2010 including, Toto, Jethro Tull and Queens of the Stone Age to pick out just a few of the headline acts on various dates over the summer.
Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany.
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With its cheap rents, gritty feel and high concentration of artists on a budget, Berlin is funky enough to have adopted the line “poor but sexy” as an unofficial motto.
The Berlin Runway
Kaviar Gauche gave soft materials and shapes a controlled look, sometimes adding contrasting accents such as black belts.
The city’s edgy, sexy vibe was evident on Wednesday as German designers kicked off Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week, which runs through Saturday. Getting on the world’s fashion map isn’t easy, but Berlin is trying.
So far, it’s not on a par with the fashion weeks of New York, Milan, Paris or even runner-up London. Most of the retail buyers are from Germany, and only a few of the designers, such as Hugo Boss—a German brand—and Calvin Klein, are major international names. Some big German labels, such as Joop!, Jil Sander and Escada, aren’t participating.
Still, Berlin fashion week has grown steadily since its inception in 2007, and the biannual event is now a fashion hub for German designers and buyers. The number of designers showing has quadrupled, says Peter Levy, senior vice president of fashion-week organizer IMG Fashion Worldwide. The event now draws fashion media from all over Europe—eastern and western—including style capital Paris. And it is “now profitable,” says IMG spokesperson Daniel Aubke. Amping up its impact, it’s being presented at the same time as two other international fashion trade shows, the streetwear-oriented Bread & Butter, and the more upscale Premiere. click to continue to rest of the full article from the Wall Street Journal.
Berlin fashion week web site.
When Orlando Bloom landed in Berlin on Wednesday fans swarmed the actor for autographs and pictures. Although the hottie has always been a wanted piece of eye candy, his recent role as the new face of Hugo Boss Orange is creating quite a buzz. Orly claims that he can relate to the scent due to its laid back, causal feel. At Tegel Airport, Orlando seemed just as laid back as he described his scent to be.
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FC Union, the Bundesliga 2 side from Berlin have secured a 3 year sponsorship deal with Eberswalder Wurst GmbH, the largest sausage producer in the Berlin region, the division 2 side this season will be joined by relagated Hertha BSC who play in the 75,000 seater capacity Olympic Stadium, with division 2 football that may be quite empty for many of the games next season, but the Berlin derby is sure to be a well attended event.
The first derby in division 2 between FC Union and Hertha BSC takes place on 18th September 2010 at Union’s ground, so if you just happen to be in Berlin it may be worth getting a ticket. the Union ground is located at Hämmerlingstraße 80-88, 12555 Berlin, directions can be found on the club web site, it’s a little ironic that Germany now look like the hot tip to win the 2010 World cup and FC Union were formed in yes 1966…
Hertha are expected to go straight back up to the Bundesliga, you can’t see Union giving them a leg up though, expect fireworks at both derbys..
Stylish hotels, old landmarks and world-class concerts:
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BERLIN—When the iconic Sony Center was completed on the former no-man’s land dividing East and West Berlin on Potsdamer Platz in 2000, it represented the rebirth of the German capital.
Now, after the National Pension Service, the South Korean pension fund, ponied up nearly $700 million to buy the offices, museums, luxury apartments, restaurants and cinemas at the popular tourist and commercial site, Sony Center may come to symbolize the recovery of continental European commercial-property markets.
The transaction was done as a share deal. Instead of buying the asset outright, NPS has effectively bought the complex by buying shares in the special-purpose vehicle that owns the asset, according to people familiar with the transaction.
Sony Center originally was built as Sony Corp.’s European headquarters for €750 million ($922.8 million) and was designed by German architect Helmut Jahn, who also designed the CitySpire Center near Carnegie Hall in New York and Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
Sony Deutschland GmbH sold the complex of seven buildings for €600 million in 2008 to a consortium of Morgan Stanley’s MSREF VI International fund; the John Buck Co., a Chicago fund manager; and Corpus Sireo, an asset manager in Cologne, Germany. The 2008 sale was financed by German bank Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. People familiar with the transaction said the remaining debt on the complex matures in three years, adding that the loan-to-value ratio is “less than 70%” and that the special-purpose vehicle never has breached a covenant. When Morgan Stanley purchased the complex in 2008, vacancy was nearly 30% and now stands at less than 3%. continue to rest of article
