Harper\'s Bazaar UK - 11.2019

Petra Nemcova

Music and muses converge in Berlin to

celebrate Max Mara’s latest cruise collection

Cutting an impossibly chic figure in a pearlescent tux,

the German jazz singer Ute Lemper enraptured an equally

elegant audience at Spiegelsaal, Berlin’s most storied salon,

with a cabaret performance on the eve of Max Mara’s Cruise

2020 show. The following night, after the collection had been

unveiled in style at the monumental Neues Museum, Lemper

joined the actress Angela Bassett, the model Carolyn Murphy

and members of the Maramotti family (the Italian owners of

Max Mara) for a gala dinner in the Greek Courtyard gallery.

In a nod to the fashion house’s roots, slivers of caviar-topped

pizza and plates of lemon ravioli were served on tables

bearing bunches of snow-white snapdragons, as conversation

roved from the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago to the

timeless allure of Marlene Dietrich.

ALL THAT

JA ZZ

Edited by CHARLOTTE BROOK

Angela Bassett

Maria Giulia Prezioso

Maramotti and Nicola

Gerber Maramotti

Caroline
Daur

Candela Pelizza

Carolyn Murphy

Vera and Viola Arrivabene Hikari Mori

Ute Lemper

PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF MAX MARA, JUSTINE PICARDIE, SEBASTIAN REUTER, DANIELE VENTURELLI, FRANZISKA KRUG/GETTY IMAGES FOR MAX MARA