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title: "Danny Reinke, the summer Paris undressed"
description: "Berlin designer Danny Reinke made his Paris debut with ‘Summer ’85’, his spring/summer 2027 collection: a tribute to East German naturism in which tulle, sheer fabrics and skin tones turn nakedness in..."
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date: 2026-10-14
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# Danny Reinke, the summer Paris undressed

**Berlin designer Danny Reinke made his Paris debut with ‘Summer ’85’, his spring/summer 2027 collection: a tribute to East German naturism in which tulle, sheer fabrics and skin tones turn nakedness into a way of dressing.**

Summer 1985, the Baltic coast. This is where **Danny Reinke**’s parents met, and that summer gives its name to the collection with which the Berlin designer made his debut at Paris Fashion Week. As the looks made their way down the runway, an imaginary radio programme played, pieced together from 1980s television and archive material: seagulls, Baltic waves, radio voices and music.

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**Reinke**, who hails from a village on the Baltic coast, has spent a decade showing in Berlin. His leap to Paris took place at the *Hôtel de Maisons*, once **Karl Lagerfeld**’s residence, in a shared show alongside **Kilian Kerner**, **Marcel Ostertag** and other labels. And he arrived with an idea as simple as it is provocative: clothed nakedness, a constant play between what is revealed and what is concealed.

The reference is *Freikörperkultur*, the naturism of the former GDR. Yet **Reinke** neither reconstructs history nor indulges in ironic nostalgia, although the invitation – a *Trabant* bearing the number plate CSD-060 – winks at the past. What interests him is what lay behind it: bodies without status symbols, summers without complicated dress codes. For the designer, nakedness is the most natural thing in the world, and once the layers fall away, all people are equal.

That idea translates into a palette of skin and summer. Powder blue, pale yellow, cream, peach, skin pink and dusty rose, with accents of flamingo pink, dark brown and glossy surfaces. The materials speak the same language: transparent tulle, sheer fabrics, pearls, sequins, embroidery and appliqués, worked into generous volumes and enveloping drapes. Every piece was made by hand in his Berlin atelier, some of them from deadstock materials.

On the runway, clothed nakedness took many forms. A pink dress with pearl appliqués opened into a great tulle hem; a sheer pink jumpsuit with a plunging neckline hinted at a skin-toned base beneath; and a pale blue suit, cinched with a belt and with extremely long trousers, was crowned with a sculptural headpiece. In the menswear looks, fluid trousers, open shirts and sheer layers in cream and dusty rose. And, like a refrain, crocheted hats that hide the face, oversized bags, flamingos and ice creams.

It is also a change of season for **[Reinke](https://www.dannyreinke.com/en?utm_source=neomaniamagazine.com)** himself. After ‘*The Hunt*’, with nature and the unicorn as its symbol, and the darker, more mystical ‘*Nominous*’, the designer leaves behind the forest and protective layers in search of the beach, light and transparency.

The finale came with a white, sheer corset dress, with the full volume of tulle. A garment that dresses and undresses at once, like that summer of 1985 on the Baltic, when nothing was needed to be equal to everyone else.