If you want to see where the actual future of fashion is being forged, you should look at PLATTE Berlin. Once again proving why they are the absolute backbone of this city’s subcultural and creative scene, the team at PLATTE did an amazing job curation- and production-wise, hosting what was hands-down the most innovative event during this season’s Berlin Fashion Week. On the evening of July 2nd, the stunning Lobe Block in Gesundbrunnen was absolutely packed to the brim, drawing a crowd of over 800 people for BLACK EYE—the highly anticipated first solo presentation by Taskin Goec.
The Most Innovative Event of Berlin Fashion Week
Taskin is a Berlin-based mixed-reality designer working right at the volatile seam of physical and digital fashion. Drawing on years of experience pushing digital frontiers, he delivered a breakthrough show unlike anything previously seen on a Berlin runway. What makes his vision so incredible is how he flips the market on its head: placing creative vision entirely before production, the designs are showcased digitally first, meaning physical pieces are only produced for what the market actually demands. It’s smart, sustainable, and radically forward-thinking.
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Music performance: BLACK SQUARE by @gamut.inc
The event is supported by the Economic Development Office of the Berlin District Office of Mitte.
In place of a conventional catwalk, PLATTE helped bring BLACK EYE to life across large-scale screens stretching the full width of the venue, with the audience gathered on either side to echo a classic show setup—but with a massive twist. The presentation unfolded in two breathtaking movements. First came THE COLLECTION, unveiling twenty-five digital looks on screen, perfectly synchronised with live algorithmic organ music played by GAMUT Inc. This was followed by NEW SUNS, a cycle of short films by the Moving Image class (Bewegtbildklasse) from the Universität der Künste Berlin. Staged inside Arno Brandlhuber’s iconic Terrassenhaus—with its raw surfaces and generous proportions—the format stripped everything back to the absolute essentials, letting the images, music, performance, and the audience fully merge.
What Taskin proposed here is a gorgeous new blueprint for the industry: one where physical craftsmanship and artificial intelligence act as collaborators rather than competitors. Every single garment begins its life in the analogue world with real textiles and hands-on experimentation. Taskin then feeds this into an AI workflow trained specifically on his own design DNA, generating variations that he curates and refines by hand. The result is a collection that captures the essence of something real while evolving into something completely unprecedented.
Even with AI as his creative co-pilot, Taskin keeps the process deliberately human-led. The entire evening offered a powerful, positive reflection of how technology is transforming the world around us, and how the way we perceive and present fashion is evolving with it. Massive props to Taskin Goec for the mind-bending vision, to the Economic Development Office of the Berlin District Office of Mitte for the support, and to PLATTE Berlin for putting together an unforgettable, game-changing showcase.
