"The word came first. - a compound that recently surfaced in German headlines, describing the anxiety inside the boardrooms of arms manufacturers at the prospect of an end to war. For Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Işık, the designers behind Friedensangst GmbH, it became a trigger for Autumn/Winter 2026, shown inside Berlin's vast, concrete Kraftwerk. Backstage at their show, Huseby had the word emblazoned on his T-shirt."
""It means 'fear of peace'," he says. In newspapers it has been used in reference to Germany's largest weapons company worrying that peace in Ukraine might hurt its share price. "It was a very cruel reminder that the people in power, the people that rule this world, have not our best interest at heart. They are only interested in forever wars and the continued extraction of as much as they can.""
"GmbH has never shied away from politics, and here the critique was echoing and inescapable. The show was titled Doppelgänger, a suggestion of recurrence and historical rhyme. "It's the idea of seeing something repeating," Huseby said. "Maybe time is repeating. Is this the same as what happened 100 years ago in Germany?" Among the texts anchoring the collection were poems printed like press releases at each guest's seat,"
Designers Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Işık built a collection around the German compound Friedensangst — 'fear of peace' — reacting to arms‑industry anxiety that peace could undermine profits. The Autumn/Winter 2026 show took place inside Berlin's Kraftwerk and carried the title Doppelgänger, invoking historical recurrence and questions about repeating past national traumas. Poems, including a 1934 Bertolt Brecht line, were printed at guest seats. The presentation critiques power structures and perpetual war profiteering while seeking reconnection with moments of freedom through memory and club culture, making political provocation integral to the clothing and staging.
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