International Shopping, Online: Styleserver

Styleserver is a bit of a departure from previous episodes in our International Shopping, Online series in that the whole site is in German and so we're pretty sure they don't ship to The States. But we decided to highlight the site anyway because it came up time and time again in the stocklist of cool indie German labels. Plus we think it's fun to peek into what other countries are doing in fashion right now, just for a bit of perspective.

Now if you think of German fashion as on par with, say, Italian governance or English food or Canadian culture, you'll definitely want to check out Styleserver. While not all brands on the site are German, a lot of them are, and on the whole they're rather nice. Contrary to the "drape some jersey on a dress form and call it fashion" school of independent design, many of these brands present pieces that are (at least going from the photos) well tailored, make good use of various fabrics, and generally serve as attractive, stylish cold weather pieces.

Our favorites were from German labels Adddress, Presque Fini and Sarah Heartbo (whose store we mentioned in our Berlin shopping guide).

Adddress

Presque Fini

Sarah Heartbo

P.S. The shop even has its own blog.