Greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to our highlights addition lining up vulgus and vivid with the following top stories. The lumber is a lot Karl Lagerfeld flaunted his hometown of hamburg. Simply nordic whats behind the success of finnish design. And seasonal overdrive germanys the largest private display of christmas lights. Well it was back in the one nine hundred eighty s. And ninetys that dozens of small artisan at ten years in paris found themselves on the brink of extinction hat makers embroiderers and milliners but thanks to the fashion house chanel and its creative director they not only survived but went on to thrive and every year since two thousand and two chanel holds a special fashion show to honor the fine craftsmanship upon which high fashion depends its called the shining. A movable feast and this year brought it to his hometown. Shamil with a definite maritime field in hamburg. T. N. You will make a change show is for many the final highlight on the annual fashion calendar. Was for Karl Lagerfeld it was very much a personal highlight this year for the first time he showcased his designs for chanel and how burke which is the city where he was born. Lagerfeld turned the entire auditorium of the Elbe Philharmonie concert hall into a catwalk. Beautiful relaxed balanced so exquisite music great seats great room this equipment i was impressed by how the individual elements were linked so beautifully and smoothly detail was bursting with emotion it was very very powerful i thought the mission it was all charged somehow all wrapped up in the story of Karl Lagerfeld you could really see and feel that it wasnt sentimental but very emotional. Hollywood stars kirsten storage. Until distrusting as well as martin lovely rose depp were among the invited guests. And of course well heeled customers came from all over the world this year the twenty one hundred guests were transported back in time to the 1930s and life at the hamburg port on stage sailors and modern mariners decked in the hamburg city colors. And i know hes been looking for a way of coming to hamburg for years and finally he found it with this with this building and so its a very happy its like a homecoming but also i think its not a nostalgic moment for him its an opportunity to introduce. People say his beloveds birthplace. The philharmonia concert hall is fast becoming hamburgs most famous landmark it opened at the start of the year and it was built on the foundations of an old warehouse directly in the harbor area. Karl lagerfeld is believed to have been born in one nine hundred thirty three in his early twentys he went to paris or he worked for various fashion labels. Became one of the worlds most successful designers and joined show now in one nine hundred eighty three cents the traditional fashion now also seen a return to its glory days. Collection has been key in that development produced anyway since two thousand and two each year its unveiled in a different city. In two thousand and eleven it was mumbai. In two thousand and thirteen chanel went to dallas. And in twenty fifteen it was the turn of rome. The focus is always on craftsmanship every individual piece is produced by small paris studios who do the work by hand. Businesses as it is that these studios had a tough time because work done by hand is not prized anymore at that and its only thanks to lagerfeld and chanel but they still exist if you bought them all and now gives them a lot of freedom that theres that santa get in and thats really special because it doesnt need to go to that. Music line. Thats the kind of luxury and craftsmanship chanel stands for one state. Below book detail and craftsmanship is put down to Karl Lagerfeld now believed to be eighty four years old he apparently still designs the entire collection himself thats unusual in the fashion industry. Hes been a great example to us all in being. Unstoppable and hes so young and his attitude to life i think thats one thing we can really all kind of learn from him and take forward hes just hes just never never says no and he goes you know hes already talking about the year after next. To me to do our show in hamburg build philharmonie concerts all. Amber Karl Lagerfeld has come full circle but the trash talking did not stay long he left without a word rushing off to focus on his next collection. December sixth marked one hundred years since finland gained its independence from eighteen zero nine until then it had been an autonomys grand duchy in the russian empire and before that it spent centuries under swedish rules and so the centenary was cause for widespread sense celebration but also for some introspection on the Finnish National identity shaped by its vast Natural Landscapes of course but also its sauna culture and the melancholy of finnish tango for instance and all of these things find a unique expression in the clarity of finnish design. Minimal and functional the finnish way of life finds expression in the architecture of the capital helsinki. And in the local design scene objects should be practical and timeless have clean lines and be made from robust materials. Cost us is a designer and has a shop in helsinkis Design District here design newcomers and the classics are both represented combining the old with the new is what this designer does too in addition to her own collection she makes customized pelts for design label. Design and. Its very democratic so its you can say that almost every household has a classic design so you actually grow up with. Those classics are something that im sure that your bare your whole life. Many of these Design Concepts have been produced without variation for decades designed for everyday gives they combine with one another. This is especially true of ceramics manufacture avia and glass producers. To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of finlands independence theyve released collections in the typically finnish blue but the designs them sounds remain unchanged because they mirror the finished mindset. We are very near nature. We like simple things our nature is quite clean and poor and simple and that maybe affects the zion and also our desire for how the design should be so its its functionality today but still. Plus a beauty with simplicity maybe the countrys pioneering design are also too heavily on nature as early as the one nine hundred thirty s. Alpha also laid the groundwork for the worldwide success of finished design. In the 1940s and fiftys. Revolutionized Industrial Design with his icy Looking Glass where. Frank did the same with his robust timeless drinking glasses high quality craftsmanship and a nod to nature are key even in the sixtys when Synthetic Materials became popular. And more than a billion pairs of the iconic fiske r. s orange scissors have been sold to date edouard neo left his mark on the swinging sixtys with these round bubble chairs. These block lamps made a name for Hardie Koskinen in the one nine hundred ninety s. Building on the success of his famous prita sesar. But finished design isnt only found in museums such pieces exist in ordinary homes where theyre handed down from generation to generation its something children grow up with. Film has been an independent country only for one hundred years now so we need to find something be some things that are common to everyone and design was one thing that kind of bond whole nation together because it was this democratic idea that we should have good design for everybody and a better everyday life where everybody and design was schuster can be in the ingredient of that so i think thats why the news is honest becomes more important for all fairness if you say that for the french for example its a bottle of wine that symbolizes french french people are friends and total for friends is surfaces theres a Fashion Designer even a constance sees herself as part of this tradition shes been selling her colorful collections made from sheep and reindeer pelts under the owner label since twenty fourteen she holds. To create the fashion classics and to morrow. I really wish and i hope that the Fashion Design on the fashion as an industry will become more recognizable in finland and there would be more understanding towards the fashion industry and the Fashion Design us well because i read about many of the we have a really strong design heritage and now its the time for a fashion absolutely the International Customers who flock to her store give rise to her french design talent from finland adding extra color to the countrys design landscape and making sure the next one hundred years will be as successful as the last. Well anyone whos got money to burn these days is well advised to invest in art as the prices are going through the roof these days just last month leonardo da vincis monday went for a record breaking four hundred fifty Million Dollars thats nearly three hundred eighty Million Euros and the market for contemporary art is also booming cashing in on this is the lead parts auction house in cologne where three works by get the worlds most expensive living artist just went under the hammer. And thats why in the us at six thirty two from get out of the status of new finance its runs its three. Human merits it switched off. I switched off. The atmosphere is crackling at this auction of contemporary art venerable lead parts auctioneers among the objects going under the hammer are several works by german painter. Theres nothing more exciting in the life of an auctioneer than the day of the auction itself it always brings surprises who will bid on what are why will they go. Killing n. J. Fun zelda next has been one of the directors of germanys they go. Killian j. Fun zelda nick has been one of the directors of germanys largest auction house since twenty twelve his work begins long before the auction itself it takes months to prepare an auction one of the most important aspects is staying in touch with collectors potential buyers and art sellers the option house has been in business since one thousand nine hundred five its the oldest family run auction firm in the world. Some paintings weve optioned off two or three times already say in one thousand nine hundred seventy five and twenty seventeen the trust that weve built up over generations is naturally something you cant buy with money. Into the. Front of annoyance of dogs and dogs. Well not for the board any more than one hundred five thousand farmer. Farmer. A buyer paid one hundred five thousand euros for a book of illustrations by gary hart its one of the german artists earliest works now eighty five years old they said has been experimenting with various genres of painting since the one nine hundred sixty s. Even minor works by him fetched six figure sums based on that is the star of the art market among all Living Artists his works command the highest prices the online database art net says that all told us works have earned more than eight hundred Million Euros in auction in two thousand and fifteen his abstract image sold for more than forty million alone. Dont forget how to push there is a fascinating artist its no accident that his work sets new price records and is unbelievably popular among collectors. Are known because the title entre from god. But six hundred thirty three then was begin with six in the front dollars. Collectors can also bid for works at lent parents auctions online the auctions are live streamed and bidding is in real time the art market is Going Digital roughly twelve percent of its business in two thousand and sixteen was on the internet thats more than three billion euros an increase of fifteen percent from the Previous Year collectors like from berlin appreciate the advantages of digitalisation the forty five year old himself founded an art collectors platform called independent collectors to make private collections more accessible. And the collecting has a lot to do with discovering and so for collectors its fantastic that its now so easy to get up to date information. That at the same time its tough to keep track of all the influences and. Russians and information are in. The challenge today is to find your away and keep a balance and. Let pass is also trying to unite art collectors from all over the world in an Online Community one task is to convince collectors to bid on where they may never have seen in real life lets use his videos in which experts introduce works of art. And i think there are situations in which serious collectors can buy art works theyve never seen before. But mostly you should stick to only art by artists whose work as a whole you know well and any moment so despite at least as popularity no online collectors bid today on his tate a landscape the painting goes to a bitter who is present in the auction hall pharma. Sold for seven hundred fifty thousand gotta do you. Think your. Natural catastrophes are the kind of thing that most of us try to avoid like for instance an erupting volcano with its burning flows of molten lava and spitting flames but in iceland we met a man who sees things very differently and i cannot see god sun is a photographer who specialized in volcanoes and when one of them blows its top you can sure that he will be far away. Molten lava fiery destruction and breathtaking beauty at the same time these photos capture the moment when of ok no way they were taken by icelandic photographer ragnar cigarettes. Rush but its all pushes you to limit creativity you have to be ready create that you have to be on your toes. He loves it when overall kaino comes to life it gets as close as possible whether with his s. U. V. Or a small play. Of being very close. You know. Its a safe distance. Runner. Mostly because im scared because things are happening but you know youre in first and i need to. Ragnar first rose to fame through his photos of icelands most famous volcano. The ash it produced when it erupted in two thousand and ten grounded flights across Europe Ragnar took ten thousand photos of the volcano breaking. Through things for things to happen to see your option its out because its. In the clouds of the one thousand and and Everything Everywhere if you can see the fire. Just stay there for and if. For more than thirty years no Ragnar Sigurdsson has been photographing landscapes and nature motifs all over the far north from greenland and norway to the north pole. But few places have as many natural wonders as his native iceland known as the land of fire and ice its one hundred thirty volcanoes and hot geysers of shape icelands national identity. Its not the kind of just i think the whole nation is like that we all love their options. They cherish i mean sometimes it can be made it can be life threatening but we have progressed past decades we only have it kind of. He says hes. Next. You know or its never done. Ragnar sigurdsson remains true to his favorite subject the next volcanic eruption of icelandic is sure to come possibly with just a few minutes notice. Well its already an old tradition in north america of course where people love to brighten their homes for the Festive Season with all manner of lights and sparkling Christmas Decorations and meanwhile here in germany the custom has also caught on but one house in particular in color in the state of lower saxony has shown its way to fame as the biggest christmas light extravaganza in the country and so we visited role folks to see how and why he does it why. Our board. Its not just tiny tots whose eyes are all aglow when big and small gather on the first weekend of the advent season to watch the lights go on. Five hundred thirty thousand of them in germanys biggest christmas light display on a private house and thats a record. Was regret youre just overwhelmed by all the lights as it could no way i could do that really through a d. V. D. I have problems just getting one string of lights up its fantastic like. The man who attracts christmas mummers to calm lower saxony every year is called for the pensioner who loves his hobby. Volleyball moved we are always just jump for joy when it all comes together i its that week of the happiness especially when it gives people joy and they go oh oh. I think thats the best part of it the worst thing that can happen is if it starts raining when im at a family and then i flip the switch on the remote it may go to give birth and then of course the people all go all. Luckily that rarely happens months of work have gone into the extraordinary christmas display. Twelves wife now i mean supports his passion for christmas lights. We got there shes in charge of the decorations in the house she decides how it gets done with the. All of. These if this passion gives him a lots of energy and happiness. Well for designs every aspect of his christmas night extravaganza himself it all started in one thousand nine hundred nine when the couple visited their son in the United States houses all around were covered with lights. On hold never seen anything like it every all. The front yards had moving reindeer and santa claus is on the moon we said lets do this at all just for us. Every year it got to be a little more but she never thought it could take on these dimensions. But. The yuletide spectacle now involves a massive amount of effort and expense to have it ready in time the seventy year old retiree has to begin stringing the four point three kilometers of cords in the summer. With this winter predicted to be a wet one hes had a special high voltage line put in. The movie by a blow dryer at least once a week the food and food. That he doesnt have any other hobby hes put his heart in as it has and i let him know. Some people never had a childhood so they have to make up for it some time. He estimates that he spent around one hundred fifty thousand euros on the decorations so far the folks have to pay some three thousand euros just for the extra electricity they use in december a little private Christmas Market helps to pay for it over the these days and its my hope this year well see even more shining faces thats the whole point of doing this does is that. I get be. They have up to five hundred spectators every weekend his wife sells mulled wine. And sausages both checks the lights to make sure theyre all working and he keeps coming up with new ideas that come as long as my wife joins in i just cant stop. There lag and well keep doing this as long as were able we really enjoy it yeah its not just to make me happy but above all the people who cant wait for our new producer or. The couple have been married for forty two years now for seventeen of them theyve been lighting up the holiday season. 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