Tuesday, January 29, 2008  12:18 PM

berlin, upbraided

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Hillary Clinton's controversy-causing campaigning might be encased in an undistracting blond 'do and Angela Merkel's matronly bob is likewise unremarkable, but if evidence on the streets and catwalks of Berlin is to be believed, there's still one female politician whose personal style is galvanizing stylish girls. On Saturday, the main talking point at the sixth Beck's Fashion Experience was the models, whose hair was mostly plaited and pinned into loose versions of the Ukrainian prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's signature wraparound blond braid. A spattering of models in the Miroïke portion of the Karstadt New Generation Awards show wore the same golden Heidi hair, and the trend can be spotted all over Berlin. Jette Rudolph (above), former rockabilly babe, sometime member of a hillbilly band, and the director of her eponymous Zimmerstrasse gallery, where she's currently hosting a group show appropriately titled "Political Iconography," is known around Berlin for sporting the "affenschaukeln" style (as it's known in German) . "I like to wear the look ironically," she explains. "I'm a blonde German mother of three children, so I know that I embody the National Socialist ideal that was associated with affenschaukeln in propaganda imagery. You have to be conscious of the look's meanings to wear it, but if you are then I think it can be very cool."

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