“Intervention is about creating proximity, between disciplines, geographies, and cultures that are rarely placed in conversation,” explains communications agency Reference Studios’ founder, Mumi Haiati. “It reflects how culture actually moves today, fluid, interconnected, and shaped by globalism rather than geography. Our focus is on amplifying voices and creative realities beyond the established European capitals, and recognising the cultural value already being produced across different parts of the world.”
Haiti is talking about his fashion and culture platform, which is returning to Berlin Fashion Week for the fifth time. This season, Kraftwerk Berlin hosts INTERVENTION V, a one-day festival uniting runway shows, talks, and listening formats. The program brings together fashion, music, and contemporary culture within one of Berlin’s most iconic industrial spaces.
Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany, 2026. Joey Bania
The event debuts the new Reference Studios and TED partnership, the first time the non-profit media organisation has brought fashion and design into its programming. Held at GLOBUS within Kraftwerk, the salon-scale conversations explore the relationships between creativity, strategy, and cultural production. Introduced and moderated by Valerie Präkelt and Natalia Sahagún, the panelists include GmbH founders Serhat Isik and Benjamin A. Huseby, artist Dozie Kanu, creative strategist Zainab Jama of Supreme and Air Afrique, amongst others.
GmbH duo Serhat Isik and Benjamin A. Huseby
Alongside the main program, a four-day experiential pop-up is already well underway. Running from 30th January through 2nd February at Potsdamer Straße 100, the Doofer Street Market, conceived and presented by LIVE FROM EARTH, operates as an expanded cultural site that blurs exhibition, gathering, and performance. Functioning as an independent satellite to INTERVENTION, the pop-up extends the platform into the city, activating the site as a public-facing space for encounter and exchange.
Participating brands and collectives include 3661, ABC Dinamo, AbuGlitsch, Baby B3ns, Brutalismus 3000, DJ Gigola, Ganja Haters, Handy Chillen, horsegiirL, Kleidungsmarke, LIVE FROM EARTH, MCR-T, Monamobile, Slinky, and Social Research. The opening on Friday featured DJ sets from 64meter, Baby B3ns with a hybrid set, and DJ AbuGlitsch, setting the tone for a weekend of sound, style, and community.
Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany, 2026. Joey Bania
Runway programming unfolds throughout 2nd February across Kraftwerk’s ground and first floors, with shows by Ugandan designer BUZIGAHILL, Nigerian innovator Kenneth Ize, local newcomers DAGGER, Tokyo-based John Lawrence Sullivan, and Berlin’s iconic GmbH. Presented in sequence, the lineup offers a cross-section of contemporary fashion practice, foregrounding independent positions, global perspectives, and distinct formal languages.
DAGGER AW 2025
From 12:00 to 20:00, GLOBUS also hosts a Listening Lounge curated by LIVE FROM EARTH. Bringing together artists and selectors from Berlin’s music ecosystem, the program situates sound as a parallel interface to the runway, tracing how global music movements, local scenes, and fashion circulate and influence one another in real time.
INTERVENTION is supported by the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises as part of the official Berlin Fashion Week calendar.
