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A Day In The Life: Ruffian’s Brian Wolk And Claude Morais In Berlin

April 7, 2009 12:11 pm

As we arrived, we were super-thrilled to see our clothes in the Friedrichstrasse windows of Departmentstore Quartier 206. Friedrichstrasse is the Madison Avenue of Berlin, which makes the shop, which carries Ruffian exclusively in Germany, sort of like the city’s Barneys. Niki Jagdfeld, whose family owns it, along with a host of the chicest restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels in the fashionable Mitte district, was our host. Preparations for our book party the following day were in progress, the collection was unpacked, and we did a fitting with Berlin sweetheart and actress Nadine Warmuth. The jaguar beaded jacket from our Fall collection seemed natural for the young starlet. Later that night, we had dinner at the Williamsburg-esque restaurant Boetzow Privat, where the wiener schnitzel quickly became our Berlin obsession.

Day Two

Today was filled with interviews with GALA and German Vogue, and, of course, the European launch of INSIDE OUT: Ruffian. Two of our favorite guests were the actresses Sandra von Ruffin and Esther Seibt, but we were also graced with the presence of Baroness Stephanie von und zu Guttenberg, wife of the minister of economics, and Susanne Juhnke, wife of the legendary Harald Juhnke, the Frank Sinatra of Berlin. She ordered her first Ruffian piece, after a lifetime of Chanel. Later that evening there was a dinner for 20 at Grill Royal, a local watering hole where the Champagne is always flowing and the steaks are imported from Argentina. Afterwards, we all walked to Niki’s club Scala, a former movie theater transformed into a hub of Berlin hipster culture. We danced till dawn and walked at sunrise down the glorious Friedrichstrasse back to our hotel.

Day Three

We received a 2 p.m. wake-up call from Niki and his gal friend Johanna von Boch, who took us on a grand driving tour in the back of their cute BMW. First stop, brunch at China Club, which is said to have the largest collection of contemporary Chinese art outside of China. Our memorable meal on the terrace overlooked the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. A drive through the Tiergarten, the Central Park of Berlin, came next, followed by a few gallery stops. Kirsten Hermann’s Galerie für Modefotografie was a highlight; the show featured Anders Edström and was the perfect fashion pick-me-up, but the paintings of Daniel Sambo-Richter at Emerson Gallery were also memorable. After a long day, we breaked at the Club of the Visionaries on the river Spree. It’s the classic Sunday meeting place for Berliners to recover from a weekend of partying. A cold Alsterwasser (beer and lemonade) was the perfect cure for a hangover. Later that night we ended where we began, like a German opera, and dined on wiener schnitzel at Restaurant Boetzow Privat.