Reference Studios announces INTERVENTION V, the fifth iteration of its fashion and culture platform, taking place February 2nd at Kraftwerk Berlin during Berlin Fashion Week. Conceived and directed by founder Mumi Haiati, the one-day festival program positions the German capital as a gathering point for creative practice that refuses to fit neatly into existing industry frameworks.
The venue (Kraftwerk, a decommissioned power station) now serves as a transdisciplinary site where music, fashion, and contemporary culture share physical and conceptual space. Its architecture provides the structural backbone for a program that alternates between runway shows, conversations, and listening formats across multiple floors.
INTERVENTION V opens with the first collaboration between Reference Studios and TED. Held in GLOBUS, Kraftwerk's intimate salon space, these conversations bring fashion and design into TED's programming for the first time. The partnership represents a deliberate expansion of how both platforms engage with creative fields that have historically existed outside traditional cultural discourse. Runway shows follow throughout the day, featuring BUZIGAHILL, Kenneth Ize, DAGGER, JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, and GmbH. The lineup privileges independent positions, each working from distinct cultural and aesthetic foundations. Presented in sequence rather than simultaneously, the program allows each collection to exist on its own terms while forming a collective statement about where fashion production currently stands.
Sound occupies equal weight. From 12:00 to 20:00, the Listening Lounge curated by LIVE FROM EARTH brings together artists and selectors from Berlin's music landscape. The program treats sound as an interface that runs parallel to the runway, mapping how global music movements and local scenes circulate alongside and through fashion. Before the main event, LIVE FROM EARTH presents the Doofer Street Market from January 30th to February 2nd at Potsdamer Straße 100. The four-day pop-up functions as exhibition, performance venue, and public gathering point, extending INTERVENTION beyond Kraftwerk and into the city as an accessible cultural site.
"INTERVENTION creates proximity between disciplines, geographies, and cultures that rarely share space," Haiati states. "It reflects how culture actually moves today: fluid, interconnected, shaped by globalism rather than geography."
