PTASKIN GOEC

PLATTE Presents

Through out the evening of July 2nd, Lobe Block in Gesundbrunnen filled its space with over 800 people for BLACK EYE; the Berlin Fashion Week first solo presentation by Taskin Goec, the Berlin-based mixed-reality designer working at the seam of physical and digital fashion. With this breakthrough, Taskin draws on years of experience pushing the digital frontiers of fashion to present a show unlike anything previously seen at Berlin Fashion Week. Placing creative vision before production, the concept introduces a new approach to the fashion market: showcasing designs digitally first and producing physical pieces only for what the market actually calls for.

In a place where a conventional catwalk would have taken place, BLACK EYE brings a collection unfolded across large-scale screens covering the full width of the venue, with the audience gathered on either side in a system that echoed a classic fashion show. But with a twist. The show ran in two movements: THE COLLECTION, twenty-five looks presented on the screens, accompanied by live algorithmic organ music played by GAMUT Inc followed at the public slot by NEW SUNS, a cycle of short films by the Bewegtbildklasse (Moving Image class) at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Staged inside Arno Brandlhuber's Terrassenhaus, whose raw surfaces and generous proportions strip the room back to essentials, this format allows for the images, music, performance and the audience to become the main and only elements that are present.

BLACK EYE proposes a new way for a fashion show: one in which physical craftsmanship and artificial intelligence work together instead of the opposite, for a collective outcome. Every garment begins in the analog world, in real textiles and hands-on experimentation, before Taskin showcases them in his AI workflow. Trained on his own design DNA, he manages to generate variations that he then curates and refines by hand. The outcome is a collection that carries, in his words, the essence of something real and the evolution that has never existed. Even if he makes AI his creative collaborator, Taskin makes sure to highlight that this is a deliberately human-led process here. The show, overall, offered a powerful reflection of how technology is transforming the world around us, and how the way that fashion is presented and perceived is evolving with it. The event was made possible by the Economic Development Office of the Berlin District Office of Mitte.