Ritual Unions

ABOUT THE BRAND

Ritual Unions ist ein Berliner Couture-Label, das 2017 von Karin Brettmeister gegründet wurde. Die auf Maßanfertigungen spezialisierte Marke hat ihren Ursprung in der Brautmode und hat sich durch eindrucksvolle Kollektionen und ihr Engagement für hochwertige Schneiderkunst weiterentwickelt. Brettmeisters Arbeit verleiht ungehörten Stimmen und unausgesprochenen kollektiven Gefühlen Gestalt, indem sie Couture als Ausdrucksmittel und Provokation einsetzt. Das Label zeichnet sich durch die Verwendung starker Kontraste aus – Schwarz vs. Weiß, Starrheit vs. Fluidität –, die in Brautmodentraditionen verwurzelt sind, aber transformiert werden, um diese zu hinterfragen. Durch diese Spannung versucht Ritual Unions, veraltete Strukturen, die mit Unterdrückung und Diskriminierung verbunden sind, aufzubrechen. Durch die Neuinterpretation alter Codes stellt sich die Marke eine neue gesellschaftliche Rolle für Couture vor: Transformation, Befreiung und radikale Schönheit.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

This collection emerges from a moment of awakening.
Not as a rupture, but as a recalibration.

It is a return to the core — to everything Ritual Unions has been, and everything it is becoming. Past and present coexist here, layered rather than replaced. What once felt contradictory now reveals itself as continuity. With distance, patterns appear. The handwriting becomes legible.

At its heart, the collection explores fluctuation: identity as something alive, shifting, and unfinished. Strength and softness, restraint and exposure, darkness and light exist side by side. These contrasts are not resolved — they are embraced. Change is not a threat to authenticity; it is proof of it.

Rebirth plays a central role. Not as reinvention for its own sake, but as the freedom to see familiar things anew. To forgive earlier versions of the self. To recognize that evolution does not erase history — it makes it meaningful.

Materials are chosen for their ability to hold tension. Structured elements meet fluid ones, containment meets release. Surfaces carry memory. The body is not hidden, but framed. Nothing is decorative without intention. Everything exists in dialogue with the wearer.

Ritual has always been the connective tissue. Not ritual as tradition, but as action — repeated, shared, charged with meaning. Ritual as a way of coming together. Of marking moments. Of belonging without conformity.

This work is for people who dress intuitively rather than consistently. For those who value self-acceptance over approval. For individuals who allow themselves to shift, to contradict, to evolve — and remain whole through it all. It is worn by those who understand that confidence does not need to be loud, and that care can be radical.

Alle Bilder sind im offiziellen Berlin Fashion Week MEDIA HUB zu finden.