To Berlin, for a night with Nefertiti—in a manner of speaking. Valentino and Susanne and Christoph Botschen, owners of the Munich online store Mytheresa.com, joined together to persuade the Neues Museum to open after-hours and host a small number of guests for dinner to celebrate the German launch of the Italian house’s new accessories book, Valentino: Objects of Couture. The connection: David Chipperfield, who designed Valentino’s new flagship stores, restored the once bombed-out museum to stand as a graceful composite of old and new architecture. It happens to be the home of the sculptured head of the immortally elegant Nefertiti, startlingly alive-looking at well over 3,000 years old.
Clémence Poésy, Caroline Issa, and Lady Laura Burlington were amongst guests who sat down to an Italian banquet with the Mytheresa.com founders and their buying director, Justin O’Shea—the man with the most-photographed beard about fashion. O’Shea said he and his girlfriend, Veronika Heilbrunner, Mytheresa.com’s fashion editor (who was not present), are about to move to Berlin, home of all German cool. Makes sense. If the Neues Museum is a symbol of the cultural prowess of the reunified Germany, then the O’Shea/Heilbrunner couple—the target of every blogger when arriving at shows—are surely its most visible symbol of the rise of German economic fashion power. A glance at Mytheresa.com’s website shows they’re currently shipping the likes of a Valentino $25,000 pink tulle dress and a $3,595 mink and leather bag for Christmas. Prost!
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