East Berlin's lifelong love of retro fashion

The Josefine Edle von Krepl, fled to East Berlin, the majority of only the front wall in 1989, she managed to save her antique clothing store, wrapped in her china and glassware.
She said that the fashion designer, reporter, and two female, allowing her and her belongings, many Western, because she claimed that she left the communist East Germany married.
Left her request was granted three months ago, nearly three decades of repression hate symbols are pulled down, and herald an exciting new commitment to democracy and freedom in the future.
But Edle von Krepl's lifelong love of labor has been to look at the past through the women's fashion.
She has collected the charts women from 1900 until wartime shortages, the United States impact the advent of social change and new fabrics, the appointments clothing in the late 1970s, more than 5000.
Feng edle Krepl, flame red hair,Classic Wedding Dresses - Project Wedding, her signature long varnished fingernails striking similarities to the French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel 68 years old, gushing source, in many cases, all the clothes history.
As an editor, I used to go to the villages, people always ask if they have old clothes, I bought them and they are sometimes dirty, and want to restore and clean up the complex, she told Agence France-Presse reporter.
East Germany (German Democratic Republic), retaining the use of a lot, but did not understand the (wine) people laugh, of course after the Wall came down, everyone wants to only western thing, she said.
The enthusiasm of her retro fashion, causing about 55 years ago, when 13 years old, to Feng Krepl, Edle claimed not to fashion their own, to save her grandmother's black satin dress, which was thrown out.
Mother's elegant 1937 wedding dress of cream-yellow hue is also a place. She is a beautiful woman. This is a poor time ... but she was always dressed in a chic red lipstick, she said.
The Meyenburg of the town, 140 kilometers north of West Berlin (87 miles) After years of hunting, she is not breaking up the collection, the newly restored castle.
Her 360, along with bags, hats, shoes, jewelry and other accessories of the period, and then to the public in 2006 that the historic buildings the the elegant Modemuseum (fashion museum).

Relocated to gray, to leave her home city of the eastern German town of a wrench, but a desire to show, she has now achieved near her home, her former pastor of the seven cats,
I buy this dress from a woman in Dresden, she died ... a long time, Edle The said Feng Krepl,, dresses from about 1900, one of the display.
One cluster, in turn, the beginning of this century's wedding dress,La Sposa SELVA Wedding Dresses, black dress stand out. edle Feng Krepl explain the poor women in a black wedding dress, so that they can wear the dress again.
Then, she pointed out, a shiny white tulle dress, worn in 1914 by his employer for her engagement, she intends to again wear on her wedding day, with a different color base map.
I do show in Hanover in the display, television and a woman called to say she would give me a clothes fair Feng Krepl Edle said.
Her fiance go to war, and soon to be killed, so it can never be a wedding dress. The woman lived on the fourth floor, take the trouble, so I picked her and brought her to see the show and showed clothes, she said.