Greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to our highlights edition lining up vulgus and vivid with the following top stories. The emirates galaga Karl Lagerfeld not tickets hometown of humber. Simply nordic whats behind the success of finnish design. And seasonal overdrive germanys the largest private display all 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 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 chili doll 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 cat walk. 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 model lovely rose depp are 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 nineteen thirties 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 for he worked for various fashion labels. Became one of the worlds most successful designers and joined cher now in one nine hundred eighty three cents the traditional fashion now also seen a return to its glory days. And has been key in that development produced annually since two thousand and two each year its unveiled in a different city. In two thousand and eleven it was. 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 and thats on a gift and thats really special because it doesnt need to go to that. Line. Thats the kind of luxury and craftsmanship chanel stands for. State. A lot of 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. The maturity to our show in hamburg skilled philharmonie concert hall. Amberg Karl Lagerfeld has come full circle but the fashion king did not stay long he left without a word rushing off to focus on his next collection. This number sixty marked one hundred years since finland gained its independence from eight hundred nine until then it had been an autonomy as 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. 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 art. Design and. Its very democratic so its you can say that almost every household. You actually grow up with. Those classics are something that im sure that your bare your whole life. Many of these design classics have been produced without variation for decades designed for every day they combine with one another. This is especially true of Ceramics Manufacturer and glass producer. To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of finlands independence theyve released collections in the typically finished 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 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 arche even in the sixtys when Synthetic Materials became popular. 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 ground bubble chairs. These mock lamps made a name for hardy koskinen in the one nine hundred ninety s. Building on the success of his famous predisaster school. 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 on a fortune 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 undesigned wish to certain people in the ingredient of that so i think thats why the news is on its become sort of court order for all fairness if you say that for the french for example its a bottle of wine that symbolizes french french people are france and total for friends is surface considers 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 up to morrow. I really wish and i hope the Fashion Design and 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 really badly about we have a really strong design heritage and now its the time for a fashion absolutely the International Customers who flock to her store get frys to hope fresh 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 salvatore 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 about six thirty two from get out of the status of new finance its one of the. Human merits of tolls. I switched off from. The atmosphere is crackling at this auction of contemporary art better. 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 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. In 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 to 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. In terms of. Annoyance or. Were not for the board any more than one hundred five thousand pharma m r. A buyer paid one hundred five thousand euros for a book of illustrations by care. Its one of the german artists earliest works now eighty five years old they say 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 what is the star of the art market among all Living Artists of 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 let your heart which there is a fascinating artist its no accident that his work sets new price records and is unbelievably popular among collectors. Nonlegal was a tidy lunch or fun. But six hundred thirty three. Was begin with six hundred dollars. Collectors can also bid for works that lead 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. The challenge today is to find your way 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. That 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 better who is present in the auction hall mamma. Sold for seven hundred fifty thousand or thirty i. 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. Fiery destruction and breathtaking beauty at the same time these photos capture the moment when of all cane away they were taken by icelandic photographer ragnar cigarettes. Rush but its all pushes you to limit creativity you have to be creative you have to be on your code. He loves it when of all pain comes to life it gets as close as possible whether with his s. U. V. Or a small play. Ive been very close i dont know. Its a safe distance. Question. About the runner. Mostly because im scared not because things are happening but you know youre on 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 thinks for things to happen to see the eruption its out because its. The clouds of the one thousand. And Everything Everywhere and you can see the fire. Just stay there. 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 icelander known as the land of fire and ice its one hundred thirty volcanoes and hot geysers shape icelands national identity. Its not the kind of this i think the whole nation is like that we all love their options. Its not. I mean sometimes it can be many of us can be life threatening but we have progressed past decades we. When you have. Kind of. What you call towards the russians. A photo shoot at a crater landscape near a cavy it was created by a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. Capturing images of the volcanic rock under different light conditions fascinates Ragnar Sigurdsson. Hes always aiming to try out new technologies and techniques. Using a drone he experiments was unusual perspectives he says hes always on the hunt for the next killer shot. And theres always. Another day another light another another perspective another way to do it or which. You know or its never done. Ragnar sigurdsson remains true to his favorite subject the next volcanic eruption in iceland 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 roll folks to see how and why he does it