Marke
ABOUT THE BRAND
MARKE, founded by designer Mario Keine, delves into the human spirit as a dynamic and evolving construct. The collections create space for exploring diverse aesthetics, embracing hybridity, fluidity, and eclecticism. Drawing inspiration from art, culture, historical eras, folklore, and future possibilities, MARKE’s designs weave together past and present, celebrating the multiplicity of human expression and the interplay of different worlds and times.
All images are available at the official Berlin Fashion Week MEDIA HUB.
What non-fashion related sources or experiences have influenced your current collection?
The collection is influenced by something very universal, an emotion everybody finds in themselves: The feeling of nostalgia, luxuriating in remembrance of an earlier state of oneself, longing for a time irrevocably out of reach. It's a story inspired by Stephen Tennant, a 'Bright Young Thing' , and Miss Havisham of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. Two personas, real and fictional, whose lives were defined by letting their past become their presence - souls stuck in an idyllic lost past.