thank you! thank you very much for…
to be always naked under our clothes!
we have nothing! ”naked we come, naked we go!” – these are the words, we use on your christmas cards. this is the secret – it is so obvious, simple but also hope-giving: we have nothing! what can we carry with us incase of – death?! life and death, love and hate… we love the life and we love the freedom we live in. we love the freedom of choice and also the fact of living inside a stable political system and a stable society. YES we have this freedom! we live in a world where old ladies can wear jewelry at night and use the underground with no fear – that’s germany.
if you fly to brazil for example and ask to do the same, simple things, you might have another experience. try it! …
open your eyes and see the differences at other places of the world. close or far away from here – things look different.
how lucky we are, that we can express ourselves in any way we like!
how lucky we are, that we can get almost everything, we need to live!
how sad we are, that we can express ourselves in any way we like!
how sad we are, that we can get almost everything we need to live!
do we really appreciate the luxury-world we life in? do even the “poor” people of our society see this luxury? do they realize it, if they compare their life to street life in brazil? …?
what can we do to keep this beautiful freedom alive and what can we do to bring this also to other parts of the world?
ic! berlin designs and produce glasses in the heart of berlin. our business gives us the freedom, to create projects like the new black forest jeans, the designer shirts and the charity project We C! Berlin. We even had our first fashion show in january 2010. we presented the t-shirts of the We C! Berlin project on the catwalk at the mercedes-benz fashion week berlin. we opened the show with a performance – i stepped on the catwalk totally naked. after a few seconds a woman, dressed in a burka, came on the catwalk and started wrapping me with black tape. because of that, i was no longer able to move and fell down on the floor. the show run, we presented the t-shirts of the charity project and the new jeans until the same woman came in again to cut me off the tape. she also gave me my pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
what’s the art part of it? what is the meaning of it…?!
let me say “thank you” to all of you, who helped creating something for this project! thank you for working with us, thanks for sending positive energy… thanks a lot!
this fashion show was just the beginning of a story, which will be connected to ic! berlin like the screw less-thing, which is our trademark. from now on we are moving into the fields of charity and care and we wont leave, before we will reach a satisfying level, which is expected in more than a human-beings lifetime…
thank you very much, that we are able to do it….
i want to say special thanks to all the artists that believed in us and who gave grace and life to the t-shirts.
aldo repetto, alexandre linhares, andré azevedo, marques andreas golder, angelita kasper, astrid spegel, ben warwick, bryn chainey, christian rotenhagen, coletivo galleria ludica, daniel thurau (dan von anhalt), danielle picciotto, duncan passmore, fabio bartz, gabriel bur, gabriel dietrich, helder suffenplan, jacob sadrak, jim Avignon, coletivo ponnei, kristie crail, liz vegas, lyle owerko, rolf nölte, sam gieben, sarah heartbo, sönke schürmeier, silmar alves, talin lopez, tofa and ulu braun
thank you very much for all the help we received from everywhere!
ralph anderl
the naked man on the runway…