Claas Cropp Creative Productions : BRIONI with Ellen von Unwerth, Jeff Koons for VANITY FAIR, RENÉ LEZARD, ELLE, ...

The BRIONI S/S 09 campaign production with Ellen von Unwerth was organised at one of Berlin’s most exclusive locations: art collector Christian Boros provided his loft apartment for the fashion shoot. The loft was specially built for him on the roof of an old WWII bunker in Berlin Mitte.

Following its first incarnation as a club and party location in the 90s, it now houses Boros’ spectacular collection of contemporary art (CD: Donald Schneider, Styling: Jason Basmajian and Giampiero Arcese, Make-up: Lucia Pica, Hair: Jimo Salako).

Jean-Baptiste Mondino was helped out by the Claas Cropp team on his VANITY FAIR cover story shoot. Jeff Koons was photographed with his artwork on the first day of his latest exhibition at the Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin (Styling: Julia Freitag, H/M: Andreas B. c/o BASICS).

The S/S 09 RENÉ LEZARD image campaign was photographed by Markus JANS c/o KLAUS STIEGEMEYER on Berlin’s Museum Island (AD: Petra Langhammer, Styling: Philippa Lindenthal, Hair: Jean-Luc Grasser c/o Airport Agency, Make-up: Doreen Petzold).

A fashion production was realized for Italian ELLE with photographer LUIS SANCHIS c/o SHOTVIEW (GoSee reported) at various outdoor locations in Berlin (Hair: Nadine Bauer, Make-up: Gina Kane).

Joachim BALDAUF c/o SHOTVIEW carried out a large scale shoot at the former Tempelhof airport for the AIRFIELD S/S 09 collection.

The campaign was shot using a Lear jet and helicopter, followed by a look book shoot which involved a specially made catwalk in the hangar, as photographed by Stefan ARMBRUSTER, likewise c/o SHOTVIEW. Styling: Claudia Hofmann, Hair: Nadine Bauer, Make-up: Barbara Bräunlich, Set Design: Friederike and Albrecht Morbach).

A campaign was produced with Joerg Reichardt and the FischerAppelt agency (CD: Sven Weber Göhring) for the German Federal Employment Office. A total of ten motifs were realized in Berlin and surrounding areas (Styling: Stephanie Franzius c/o Nowadays, H/M: Gunnar Schendera c/o BASICS).

It was the third consecutive time that Karel KÜHNE c/o GUNDA PATZKE photographed a MINI COLLECTION catalogue. Following Barcelona in the previous year, the production location returned to Berlin (Agency: Start, AD: Felix Ranft, Styling: Ingo Nahrwold c/o BIGOUDI, H/M: Gabrielle c/o BASICS).

Hannah Herzsprung was the protagonist of a PARK AVENUE shoot by Cellina von Mannstein (H/M: Steffi Willmann c/o BASICS).

The Claas Cropp team organised two shoots for GoSee member HIEPLER, BRUNIER and the Butter.Berlin agency for the GERMAN MINISTRY OF EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS (Styling: Nici Theuerkauf c/o NINA KLEIN).

The team, once again for VANITY FAIR, this time with photographer Markus JANS c/o KLAUS STIEGEMEYER, spent a week travelling all over Germany for a shoot at various locations including Zaha Hadid’s BMW factory (Styling: Julia Freitag, H/M: Dimitri Theer).

This was followed by a menswear special with Markus Jans, starring actors Thomas Kretschmann, Benno Fürmann and Daniel Brühl (Styling: Tobias Fericks, H/M: Martin Turansky c/o PERFECT PROPS).

Two commercial motifs were realized with photographer Markus Altmann for MERCEDES-BENZ Trucks (Wob AG, AD: Felix Zuber).

Swedish photographer Mattias Edwall was supported by the team during a campaign production for DANSKE BANK in Berlin (Styling: Rita Amthor, H/M: Aaron Lafrenz) and the same goes for Piet Truhlar’s shoot for DEUTSCHE BANK and the Grey agency.

Ralph Mecke was assigned by German edition GQ to photograph actor Vinzenz Kiefer and violinist David Garrett on location in Berlin (Styling: Yilmaz Aktepe / Christian Stemmler, H/M: Richard Brockwell and Nadin Wagner).

Claas Cropp were booked by Kajetan Kandler with a studio production shoot in Hamburg for SIEMENS (Ogilvy & Mather, AD: Irina Schestakoff, AB: Christina Hufgard, Styling: Roya Bachtiari, H/M: Claudia Cammann c/o LIGANORD, Set Construction: Udo Grembowicz).

The band members of The Bosshoss were photographed by Klaus Lange with a horse on Alexanderplatz for BERLINER PILSNER beer. (Agency: Dorland, AD: Lucie Waren, AB: Jasmine Strondl, Styling: Mody Al Khufash, H/M: Sandra Stehmann).

Once again, this season saw various catalogue shoots organised in Berlin including the following: ENGELHORN (photographer Hans Christian BARTH c/o GUNDA PATZKE, Styling: Samya Schröder, H/M: Gunnar Schendera c/o BASICS), APPELRATH-CÜPPER (Photographer Morten Bjarnhof, Styling: Ronald Becker, H/M: Loni Baur), BONITA (Photographer Keith SCHOFIELD c/o KLEIN PHOTOGRAPHEN, Styling: Martina Nellis, H/M: Fred Evers), KAUFHOF (Photographer LINN & ROBERT c/o KATINKA KRIEGER, Styling: Gisela Büchner, H/M: Frederic Kimmel) and three for WÖHRL with photographer Jeanette Brugger (Styling: Andrea Hawkins-Rezepa, Udo Hoin, Heidi Hanke, H/M: Henrike Kessler, Fred Evers).

Two editorials on Vladimir Malakhof and his dance troupe were realized for PARK AVENUE with Mel KARCH c/o OBJECTIV PHOTOGRAPHEN (H/M: Jazz Mang & Andreas B., both c/o BASICS), as well as with Per ZENNSTRÖM, also c/o OBJECTIV PHOTOGRAPHEN and Minu Barati Fischer, the wife of German foreign minister Joschka Fischer (H/M: Gunnar Schendera c/o BASICS).

An on-location fashion editorial was organised for CELEBRITY magazine and Dirk MESSNER c/o KLEIN PHOTOGRAPHEN, (H/M: Peggy Kurka c/o BIGOUDI), as well as for A MAGAZINE, Italy, with photographer Alessandro Di Giampietro (Hair: Antonio Musumeci, Make-up: Betty Poudre).

The Claas Cropp Team have also recently been busy with entirely live castings, for example a European wide casting for BRAUN razors Christmas campaign, (photographer Karel KÜHNE c/o GUNDA PATZKE), a video casting for a DEUTSCHEN POST campaign (Photographer NICK & CHLOÉ c/o HILLE PHOTOGRAPHERS) and extensive street and live casting for KARSTADTQUELLE VERSICHERUNGEN, KFW FÖRDERBANK and BASF (Photographer Olaf Blecker).