GmbH marks its tenth anniversary with Intervention VI, a Winter Spring 2027 collection presented during Berlin Fashion Week that looks back in order to move forward. Founded in 2016 by Serhat Isik and Benjamin A. Huseby, the brand began as a way to tell stories through clothing, identity, community, and resistance. This season, that impulse turns toward Berlin itself, and toward a fashion history that remains largely absent from the wider narrative of European design.
The collection begins with a question: what happened to Berlin fashion? In the 1920s, the city had a strong and active fashion scene, with couture houses, salons, designers, tailors, stores, and clients operating at a level that rivaled Paris. That history changed violently under the Nazi regime, which destroyed much of Berlin’s fashion community. Many of the people who shaped that world were Jewish. Their companies and assets were taken, their lives were uprooted, and many were forced into exile or killed. The continuity of Berlin fashion broke.
GmbH approaches this history with seriousness, but avoids turning the collection into a costume exercise. Intervention VI starts from the brand’s own language: sleek sportswear, protective cuts, and clothes that sharpen the body while giving it armor. These GmbH archetypes remain visible, but the collection introduces references from Berlin’s couture past. A collar inspired by a coat by Clara Böhm, whose house operated from 1912 to 1939, becomes one point of connection between the present and an interrupted design lineage.
The research gives the collection its emotional center. Isik and Huseby visited Julia Schwarz’s archive, where they encountered garments from a century of fashion history. Select archival pieces from the 1910s through the 1960s, created by some of Berlin’s largely forgotten designers, appear within the show. Their presence turns the runway into a form of recovery. GmbH does not attempt to summarize a hundred years of fashion in one collection. Instead, it opens a door.
That gesture matters because GmbH has always treated fashion as cultural expression and political language. The brand’s work often responds to the conditions around it, from migration and race to class, queerness, religion, and the visibility of minority communities. With Intervention VI, the political charge comes through history. The collection argues that fashion cannot separate itself from power, because fashion history itself shows what happens when power decides who gets remembered and who disappears.
This position feels especially urgent in the current German context. GmbH points directly to increased state repression, marginalization of minority communities, and the visible rise of the extreme right. Against that reality, the brand insists on resistance. Its political stance does not sit outside the clothes. It gives them purpose.
The strongest part of Intervention VI lies in the way it connects past erasure with present danger. Berlin’s lost fashion history becomes more than archival research. It becomes a warning, a source, and a responsibility. GmbH uses the runway to ask why some designers vanish from cultural memory, why fashion in Germany still struggles for recognition as a serious cultural field, and how a brand rooted in minority experience can claim its place inside that history.
Ten years in, GmbH does not use its anniversary for nostalgia. It uses it to widen the frame. Intervention VI looks at Berlin not as a city outside fashion, but as a city whose fashion story was fractured by violence and neglect. By returning to that story, GmbH creates one of its most grounded collections to date: protective, researched, emotional, and sharply aware of the present.
