Fashion by Ann Doerr, Munich 2004
Textile design and the production of textiles today are generally related to high technological processing. Textiles used for all sorts of applications including fashion design are produced en mass by the textile industry. Most of the indigenous local methods of creating textile design and producing textiles are no more in use, forgotten or only practiced by a very few group of people.
The fashion industry presents dream world of glamour. Extremely slim girls do the catwalk with tantalizing poses that send the heartbeat of fashion lovers racing. Competition in the fashion business for market-share is very stiff and the majority of the fashion models starve to keep their figures in order to stay in business. Philine von Wilcke, a successful part-time model and final-year medical student talks about how she became a model, her ambitions and goals for the future.
