TIME, 2009-06-24 (by Stephanie Kirchner)
-Fearless Fashion in the Former East Germany-
„The pressure of standardization, forcing people into line, we were totally against all those socialist diseases,"
says filmmaker Marco Wilms, a former model whose documentary about the G.D.R.'s avant-garde fashion scene, Comrade Couture,
was recently released in Germany....“
THE NATIONAL, 2009-06-20 (by Liza Foreman)
-Fashion dictators-
„...the story of this colourful and talented group of individuals is both highly amusing and at times quite sad....
Wilms experience growing up in East Germany continues to influence his work... he says, „...The best thing I can do is
to make a film and to try and bring back these peoples indentities.“
THE GUARDIAN, 2009-04-24 (by Kate Connolly)
-The Catwalk Life of Others-
„Strawberry Foil Dreams take us on a touching journey back to the wild and wonderful underground world
of fashion design in the GDR...The results, both as seen in the film, and displayed on a catwalk at
its premiere, are quite spectacular.“
THE ECONOMIST / More Intelligent Life, New York, 2009-03-16 (by Claudia Rudat)
-Berlin: The right place at the right time.-
„Berlins recent International Film Festival made an excellent start, with quite a few intriguing docmentaries...
One of the funniest and mosty jolly was Comrade Couture.“
BBC NEWS, Cinema Release Kino Babylon, 2009-04-21 (by Tristana Moore)
„Film celebrates GDR fashion. It was a wild time, Berlin in the 1980s, the East German fashion scene
was in full swing...“
FRANCE 24, 2009-10-02 (by Yannick Pasquet)
„... director and former East Berlin model Marco Wilms looking up his heroes that made up the surprisingly
bohemian fashion scene behind the Iron Curtain.“
SPIEGEL ONLINE International, 2009-06-04 (by Caroline Winter)
-Revisiting Communist Germany's Fashion Scene-
„His (Marco Wilms') touchingly personal "Comrade Couture",... combines film footage and photos from the 1980s
and revisits four of the scene's most vivid personalities in an attempt to summon the thrill of freedom and
economically unencumbered creativity that lent East Germany's fashion underground its potency....
But at its essence, "Comrade Couture" is not a critique but rather a celebration of the GDR's uninhibited fashion
underground, which survived perhaps because of its small and secretive nature."
Marie Claire (Turkey), 2010-05-01 (by Eda Göklü)
easttouch magazine (Hong Kong), 2010-09-07
South China Morning Post, 2010-09-12 (by Clarence Tsui)