Sarah Fürbringer photographs cosmetics stills for WELEDA Pomegranate – set design & textures by Kirsten BENOUFA c/o LIGAWEST … and meet the HMS agency LIGAWEST as an exhibitor at UPDATE-24-BERLIN.

For quite some time, actress Anna Schudt played the demure commissioner Martina Bönisch in the successful German TV format ‘Tatort’. For her portrayal of real-life comedian Gaby Köster in the TV movie ‘The Sniffles Would Have Been Just Fine’, she won the International Emmy Award in 2018 as Best Actress and was nominated for the German Television Award that same year.

THEA MIKA is a German shoe brand, founded in 2018 by Michael Gerlach – owner of the design and sales agency Brand Masters GmbH. The young women’s shoe collection with an Italian twist, Thea Mika, named after the grandmother of the founder, was photographed by Lukas Bierholz. Styling: Hivi NEKSHEBENDI, hair & makeup: Anschi URBAS, both artists c/o LIGAWEST.

Michael learned his trade literally from the bottom up. A trained shoe designer, he has worked in Germany and many years in Italy. With his agency and a team of several members, Michael Gerlach is located in Erkrath near Düsseldorf today where he sells the brands A.S.98, Mjus, Verbenas as well as W6YZ alongside Thea Mika in German-speaking markets. There are 700 retailers in the customer file index of Brand Masters.

Personal work by Chris Schörding – with set design by Deborah DIXKENS c/o LIGAWEST.