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ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN BERLIN12 stores · curated ORBIS register
GmbH draws on Berlin's dance-floor culture, using deadstock materials from Milan within its clothing collections. Jerseys and leather jackets form part of that brand's range, alongside trousers made from PVC. OBS handcrafts bags and small leather goods in Berlin, extending its use of considered materials into jewellery and clothing.
Mitte / Online
Founded in 2016 by Carolin Dunkel, APRIL FIRST is a Berlin-Mitte boutique conceived as a gallery-like mix of contemporary fashion and interiors. Its edit combines established and emerging international labels with furniture and design objects, beauty, fine jewelry and the store’s own 14k-gold pieces.
Best for Women’s fashion from international independent labels
Charlottenburg (Savignyplatz)
Set in the railway arches beneath Savignyplatz station, Bucherbogen is Berlin's specialist bookshop for architecture, art, fashion, film and design, filling several vaults with in-print and hard-to-find titles. Booksellers hand-order any available book and gift-wrap for a devoted Charlottenburg clientele.
Best for Art and architecture books
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg / Online
Coexist is a Berlin concept store for alternative and sustainable slow fashion, officially opened in 2014 after founder Anna developed her Indyanna label in London. The shop mixes handmade designer pieces and international labels with Indyanna work still made in its own fashion studio and tailor room.
Best for Independent and sustainable fashion from multiple designers
Mitte (Auguststrasse)
On Auguststrasse in Mitte, do you read me?! curates several hundred international magazines and books on fashion, art, photography, design and food, favouring independent and small-run titles. The shop is a fixture of Berlin's independent-publishing scene, stocking Japanese magazines and graphic-design journals alongside notebooks and totes.
Best for International magazines and design books
Germany
Trouser-only sub-line of the German brand Brax (trousers since 1950, parent company founded in Berlin in 1888), on the market since 1995 with an ergonomic 'Perfect Cut' sizing system built for a range of body types, including plus sizes.
Best for Trousers, casual; Premium trousers
Eurex by Brax is a trousers-only line within the German company Brax, whose roots go back to 1888, when Bernward Leineweber opened a clothing business in Berlin. Brax itself, as a dedicated trousers brand marketed under the slogan 'the trousers of progress,' launched in 1950. Eurex was introduced in 1995 as a specialist offering built around a proprietary 'Perfect Cut' pattern system, engineered to fit a wider range of body shapes - including larger sizes - than a standard trouser block. The line covers chinos, jeans and dress trousers, and is stocked both through Brax's own retail channels and specialist plus-size menswear retailers such as Hirmer big & tall.
Berlin / Online
Berlin collaborative brand born from the dance floor — deadstock materials from Milan, tight jerseys, PVC pants, and bulky leather jackets. Resistance through fashion.
Best for Club-born avant-garde fashion
Hermannplatz, Neukölln, Berlin
Historic Berlin department store on Hermannplatz, opened in 1929 as Europe's largest department store with its own U-Bahn entrance and Art Deco twin towers; badly damaged in WWII, rebuilt, and now trades as a Galeria store following the 2019 Karstadt-Kaufhof merger.
Best for Fashion, home goods, and a rooftop terrace at Hermannplatz
The Hermannplatz department store, on the border of Kreuzberg and Neukolln, opened in 1929 to significant fanfare, designed in an Expressionist style by architect Philipp Schaeffer for the Karstadt group. At the time it was the largest department store in Europe, featuring escalators, lifts, a roof terrace, and its own direct entrance from the Hermannplatz U-Bahn station. The building was badly damaged during the Second World War, and only the southwest wing of the original structure survives. The store has continued trading on the same site, and today operates as a Galeria store following the 2019 merger of Karstadt and Kaufhof into Galeria.
Berlin / Online
Berlin label handcrafting bags, small leather goods, jewelry and clothing from considered materials including deadstock.
Best for Architectural leather bags, small goods and Berlin-made accessories
Berlin / Online
Berlin sustainable fashion label built around ten numbered wardrobe essentials (T-shirts through coats), founded by creative director Ashley Marc Hovelle. Uses organic, rainwater-grown cotton and fair-factory production in Portugal; flagship store on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße.
Best for One of ten numbered wardrobe staples, from 01 T-Shirts to 10 Coats
Oftt is a Berlin fashion label built around a collection of ten numbered wardrobe categories, running from 01 T-Shirts to 10 Coats. The name is read as clothes you wear often, and the numbers are described as an edit rather than a ranking. Founder Ashley Marc Hovelle ran a namesake fashion brand before launching Oftt on its ten year anniversary. Every piece is designed without a gender attached to the cut, and each product page records the fabric weight and cut along with construction decisions. Garments are produced in small batches in family run factories in Portugal and Romania, which the brand visits. When a piece sells through it may be reproduced later, and there are no sales because the price is set once. The brand describes its cotton as grown organically and mostly with rainwater, and it works with GOTS certified factories. Oftt keeps a flagship store at Rosa Luxemburg Str. 23 in Berlin, where the OFTT and 1331 brands share one space as a family business. Visitors can see the full collection of ten there along with in store exclusives.
Mitte / Online
PLATTE is a Berlin platform for the city’s next generation of fashion, combining a concept-and-event space with an education hub, photo studio and collaborative projects. Its store gives shelf space to local labels while the wider program connects emerging designers with audiences and industry.
Best for Berlin design, fashion, events and rotating local-designer retail
Berlin / Germany
Urban Spree's bookshop, inside its postindustrial compound at Revaler Strasse 99 in Berlin, sells hand-picked graffiti, street art, and photography books alongside zines, screen prints, and t-shirts produced under its own imprint, Urban Spree Books. The shop keeps regular hours alongside the site's gallery, concert room, and biergarten, with an online storefront for checkout.
Best for Street-art, books, zines, prints, apparel
Kreuzberg / Online
Voo Store is a Kreuzberg concept space that filters Berlin through local and international fashion, modern design and visual culture. The Oranienstraße complex also includes Voo Deli for natural wine and food, Voo Space for gallery collaborations and an archive project mixing past-season and vintage pieces.
Best for Multi-brand fashion, books and design objects
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