Playing it cool

The Berlin fashion scene rejected bling long ago ? head to the streets and you'll see an eclectic mix of underground stylesStreet style in Berlin is not unlike the city's architecture: incoherent, austere, avant-garde and archaic all at the same time. Twenty years after the wall came down, the city may be unified, but the look certainly isn't.Stroll through Berlin's Mitte shopping district on Saturday afternoon and you notice that here ? more so than its London equivalent of Soho ? dressing up means dressing down. The style is vibrant, occasionally scruffy and increasingly self-aware in a way that reminds me of parts of east London in the 90s.For obvious reasons, uniforms are distrusted in the German capital, so expect to see formal looks sabotaged by contradictory accessories ?

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