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Really bold: Unusual key pieces of the season

"A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm agains...

Art of Candy: Maayan Zilberman turns candy into art

Delicate lingerie and sticky sweets? It goes together about as well as Gwyneth Paltrow and spray-canned cheddar. In fact, not at all. We remember: In an interview, the actress once mentioned...

Weimar goes Paris: New exhibition celebrates Bauhaus classics

Timelessness was invented in Weimar. At least a design philosophy that, like no other, stands for furniture and living objects that have endured over the decades, which unfold their effect i...

Hot from the Stove: Four new special cookbooks

W hile the stove stays off most of the time in summer – the heat, a salad will do and someone is always grilling – starting in autumn, kitchen experiments alone or with friends suddenly no l...

Movie Night: Cafe Society by Woody Allen

A n few places are fame, insignificance, illusion and reality closer together than in Hollywood. Fascinated by this world, many try to follow the same path as their idols. On the more or less a...

Exclusive interview: Cathy Hummels reveals her Oktoberfest insider tips

For Cathy Hummels this year, being rested and best dressed in time for the start of the Wiesn is associated with plenty of travel stress. Because the 28-year-old presenter and wife of Bayern Mun...

Playlist: Isn't It True by Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions

It had become really quiet around the American singer and songwriter Hope Sandoval, whom we had come to know and love as the voice of Mazzy Star. And who also provided velvety, sophisticated pop...

Autumn timeless: pre-fall looks by Allude

There really wasn't much to see of summer this year: Instead of wearing airy clothes, people went outside in cardigan and tights for weeks, ice cream was eaten under the umbrella and emergency fle...

How ideas become fashion: Andrea Karg on the design process

C ashmere and fashion are my greatest passions, to which I have devoted myself fully in my designs for Allude since 1993. I design and realize six collections a year for women alone - plus the lin...

Really beautiful and sustainable: The Allude Green Beauty Guide

Stars like Miranda Kerr and Gwyneth Paltrow avoid cosmetics, the ingredients of which first have to be hunted through translation software, just as they do greasy junk food. After all, they (or th...

O gknitt is: The exclusive Wiesn collection from Allude

17 September 2016 has been “blocked” in countless calendars for months. Regardless of whether planning is in Frankfurt or Florence, in Hamburg or Helsinki, in Osaka or Osnabrück. Some write down a...

Secret care tips from Dilek Can from the Cashmere Clinic

Since the start of the Allude Cashmere Clinic, a service and care concept that is unique at least in Germany, Dilek Can has been the "Head Nurse" at Christophstrasse 6 in Munich's Lehel. After a g...

Playlist: Heaven Scent by Soulwax and Chloe Sevigny

M odel, permanent it girl, actress and now also a singer? There seems to be nothing Chloë Sevigny can't do. The American journalist Jay McInerney already knew that when he wrote a seven-page homag...

Movie Night: "Florence Foster Jenkins" with Meryl Streep

What she lacked in talent, her lavish bank account made up for. Few were more so than New Yorker Florence Foster Jenkins, whose inherited fortune enabled her to pursue an operatic career—withou...

"At Audrey's Home": New cookbook with recipes from the Hepburn

I n the role of a model housewife, we wouldn't necessarily have cast the unforgettable Audrey Hepburn. That was more a matter for her fellow actress Doris Day. We used to think so. Not because ...

The Perfect Piece: Allude at Der Berliner Mode Salon S/S 2017

This time, Allude's presentation at the renowned showroom event Der Berliner Mode Salon revolved around the number 11100. This is not a mysterious computer code, a programming command made up of z...

Awarded: Silver medal for our "Cashmere" book

"I can't change the world. But I can make it a little more comfortable." Andrea Karg's motto connects everything we do at Allude. From designing a collection to making it, to our cashmere clinic a...

Movie Night: The Louvre documentary "Francofonia"

H ow do you keep art treasures of immeasurable value from falling into the wrong hands? More precisely: the masterpieces of the Louvre like the "Mona Lisa" against the Nazi occupiers. From 1940...

Heat-free: summery cashmere looks from Allude

E ven if the temperatures are clearly in the double digits, nobody has to do without the pleasant feeling of cashmere on the skin. Ultra-thin and breathable, the high-quality material is on the co...

Movie Night: "Peggy Guggenheim - A Life for Art"

M arguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim is one of the most important and at the same time most dazzling personalities of the international art scene from the 1930s to 1970s. The eccentric American not o...