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LED Catwalk with coolux at the Centro Fashion Week
COLOGNE, Germany – The Centro is one of Europe’s biggest shopping and leisure centres, located close to the center of Oberhausen. From Sept. 24 until the second of October, the Centro hosted its Centro Fashion Week, which made use of a curved LED catwalk that had previously been used by George Michael and Bon Jovi. A coolux Pandoras Box Server PRO was used to play out more than 460 movie-clips on the LED catwalk.
During the Centro Fashion Week, major apparel companies let models present their latest clothes lines for this year’s fall season. Celebrities such as Germany’s Next Top Model winner Sara Nuru and make up artist Boris Entrup joined in the event.
The catwalk was about 14 meters long, had a width of 4 meters and would extend to an overall height of about 6 meters at its highest point.
Five K Managing Director Werner Kokott was responsible for integrating the large number of different media files, including those he created. One of the main themes explored through the use of the LED catwalk was the notion of an “Indian Summer” and related colors. Kokott programmed and operated the coolux Pandoras Box Server during the shows as well.
The Centro Fashion Week event was challenging in many different ways, as more than 20 international brands had to feel that the media and show display was doing justice to both the overall event and their brand in particular.
The lighting setup was controlled via a grandMA console, which was also used to trigger the coolux Pandoras Box Server system. The Pandoras Box’s real time render engine enabled Kokott to implement important content changes within a short time.
“It’s not just the video which we play out via the Pandoras Box, but the sound as well. Working with the Box is fun and allows me to change my content on the fly,” Kokott said.
The audience was able to enjoy a varied display of media content that underlined the quality of the fashion brands on the catwalk.
Amongst all the autumn and winter related imagery, one was also able to spot one of Werner Kokott’s trademark designs on the huge Barco Mistrip LED strips: Pristine snow flakes flying upward.
Credits:
End customer: Centro
Technical Direction :
Michael Thoene/Thoene und Partner
Video & Lighting design and PB operating:
Werner Kokott, FIVE K
Pandoras Box Tech support:
Daniel Kaminski
Main Content Design:
Twenty One Media GmbH
