Many East Germans idolised and dreamed of all things Western – from films and pop music to Levi’s jeans – but without free access to consume and participate in its culture and media, they made their own.

2019年6月14日 · An exhibition in Berlin showcases "Sibylle," an East German fashion and culture magazine that for decades offered women in the communist state more than dress patterns. It was the most famous...

2009年6月24日 · From July 4 to Sept. 13, a new exhibition at Berlin’s Museum of Applied Arts called “Free Within Borders” revisits the forgotten fashion scene of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.).

2019年10月29日 · Consumer goods from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had a reputation for shoddy quality and gruesome styling. But decades after the collapse of the communist regime, some East German...

Sibylle was a bimonthly fashion magazine that was published in East Germany and then in Germany from 1956 to 1995. The magazine was subtitled Zeitschrift für Mode und Kultur ( German : Magazine for fashion and culture ).

2019年11月8日 · East German laborers were making quality fabrics and fashionable, ready-to-wear clothes in East German factories, but exclusively for export. By using low-wage, forced, and prisoner labor and selling to the West, the East German government brought in currency to keep the government running.

2019年6月14日 · Known as the "East German Vogue," the fashion magazine "Sibylle" was characterized at its beginnings by covers with strong contrasting colors. The idea of the bimonthly publication was to...

2019年10月3日 · Sibylle, the ‘Vogue of the East,’ stands today as one of the GDR’s greatest artifacts and anomalies. Though the very concept of a fashion magazine may seem to epitomize Western aesthetics and consumerist values, the East German team of creatives behind Sibylle manifested the impossible.

2023年1月20日 · But they weren’t in a news or politics weekly. Instead, they appeared in the glossy fashion magazine Sibylle, showing a young woman with her bare knee jutting out in front of Lenin’s statue.

2009年6月4日 · The models' dark makeup and exquisitely freakish get-ups contradicted East Germany's wholesome state-approved fashion.