Designer Christina Arend presented her own label for the first time, with the spring/summer collection 2010, during Berlin Fashion Week. The fashion show of the second collection “oneness universe” celebrated a sensational success.The young and emerging label is already being an integral part of the German fashion scene and is also gaining more and more attention of an international audience.

In the 3rd season the designer focuses on nature in her latest collection “SEEN NATURE”. The Macrocosm in the microcosm of our existence – the smallest unit of the circle of existence.

„I feel very important that everything is related and forms a unity. The accessories are a special feature of my collection. They complete the entire Aq1 look and make it „unique“. Graphical lines will always be maintained, but broken by different elements, which consistently change.“, says designer Christina Arend.

The designer:
Christina Arend, was born 1984 and grown up in southern Germany. After her fashion design studies and stations at Kaviar Gauche in Berlin, Jasmine Di Milo in London and Fendi in New York, as well as various freelance projects as an illustrator – it has always been her goal to realize her own internationally focused collection made in Germany. Aq1 is the Latin code for eagle. Also the designers last name is the Dutch translation for eagle so it stands to reason that the independent and shining animal with all its attributes represents the label arrondissement Aq1.

arrondissement Aq1 is a cosmos which everyone must explore and feel for himself.

Dare & do