CALENDAR:
(‘Short Messages’ from the cover of www.fashionoffice.org in chronological
order)
The Austrian
label Liniert presents the ‚Krachkollektion’ at the Vienna Fashion Week on 25
Sept. The designers of Liniert have already released a preview on the
collection that is inspired by actual socio-political themes earlier this
year with the statement that “…The naive fact that turns against ourselves is
that we rather trust the usual, the conventional, than the non-conformist and
strange…” The show begins at 16.00 in a tent in front of the MQ (Museums
Quartier) in the center of the city. The Fashion Week runs until 27 Sept.
Program and details on www.mqviennafashionweek.com
The
US fashion, film, and art organization ‘Gen Art’ invites fashion designers,
editors, buyers, bloggers and fashion consumers to join the new platform
‘Discover’. You can submit a t-shirt design to the theme ‘inspiration’. The
winner will have their t-shirt produced and win a VIP travel package to Gen
Art’s Shop NYC discover.genart.org
Fashionable
dance party with guest artists like Hercules and Love Affair (>YouTube) and
video projections by the art and fashion movie producers FLY16x9 www.fly16x9.com on 26 September at
MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art in New York. More about the premier of MoMA
MiXX dance party www.moma.org/momamixx
Website
about clean energy fashion. CEF collects content about clean energy such as
the video from the Los Angeles catwalk show of the Eco Nouveau (>YouTube,
www.econouveau.com) designers Gary Harvey, Bahar Shahpar, and Amanda Shi. CEF
has sent a glossary too: Eco-Fashion...uses organic raw materials, such as
cotton grown without pesticides and silk made by worms fed on organic
trees...doesn't involve the use of harmful chemicals and bleaches to colour
fabrics...is often made from recycled and reused textiles. High-quality
garments can be made from second-hand clothes and even recycled plastic
bottles...is made to last, so that people keep them for longer...comes from fair
trade - the people who make them are paid a fair price and have decent
working conditions www.cleanenergyfashion.com
Fashion and music darling ‘Mika’ in a photo shooting
for Vanity Fair in London (>YouTube). ‘Pop
wonderboy’ Mika’s album ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ came out on 18 Sept in Italy, 22 Sept in America etc. Mika will tour America in October. Find out more on www.mikasounds.com
‘Going Down’ by musician Szenario; directed by himself
(>YouTube).
The Viennese is part of the independent group of musicians under the keyword
‘Supercity’. From 5 to 10 Oct, Supercity runs the RUN VIE Festival on 8
locations in Vienna with more than 25 Hip Hop-Underground acts www.supercity.at/RUNVIE
Viennese design night with chocolaterie, Champagne and Cidre. During the Vienna Design Week, a group of artists and retailers start
a new cooperation to show fashion, jewellery, accessories etc. with culinaric
and musical highlights in the ‘Kettenbrückengasse’ quarter on 8 Oct,
beginning at 18.00. My advice: start with chocolate, Cidre und Champagne at the Chocolaterie/Pâtisserie au marché www.fruth.at
>Swedish humour on fashion films. The wearable magazine ‘T-post’ goes cross-media. Watch the witty documentary ‘A T-post family Portrait - Karin & Carina’ (>YouTube). “We are in the final stages of completing the first film in a series of
documentaries highlighting people in the T-post family. This first film gives
you a chance to get to know Karin and Carina. Every six weeks they neatly
check every single Tee for misprints and holes, and folds and package them to
be shipped out to all four corners of the world. But before the package is
shipped they singlehandedly check all 2500 address labels to make sure that
they accurate. Karin and Carina are two cool and lovely women and this is our
tribute to them.” The film will be released this fall. www.t-post.se
Fashion
films done from designers and brands, fashionable movies about musicians,
artists, icons… The 2nd edition of the annual Fashion, Style and Beauty Film
Festival ‘ASVOFF’ (A Shaded View On Fashion Film, founded by Diane Pernet)
shows from 25 until 27 September in Paris movies like a Hussein Chalayan
documentary, Roisin Murphy retrospective, film by Alia Raza about Chloe
Sevigny etc www.AShadedViewOnFashion.com
The
underlying role of aesthetics in ideology and culture: Sean Snyder
investigates the “transformative role of the archive in relation to digital
imaging technologies, developing a methodological approach to the structuring
of information. Utilizing the interpretative potential of documents and
databases, his work explores documentary practice as a historical construct,
and more generally the underlying role of aesthetics in ideology and
culture…” exhibition ‘Sean Snyder’ at the ‘Index the Swedish Contemporary Art
Foundation’ from 16 Sept - 25 Oct www.indexfoundation.se
Received
a text from Gina Drewes & Tiberius on occasion of the show at the Vienna
Fashion Week on 24 Sept. (Note to the text: fashion design in Austria is strongly directed by quasi-governmental institutions and revolution begins with
breaking through the ‘desiderata’. At this time, rural clothing such as
Dirndl is on the wish list of influential groups.) “barROCK a symbiosis of
Prèt à Porté designer Gina Drewes and the fetish fashion of TIBERIUS
(Valenzuela-Abril). An exciting mix of sensuality and desire. Far away from
dusty wig and Alm-Chic barROCK initiates a new era and refuses to use
antiquated stereotypes.” www.mqviennafashionweek.com
‘Yearning For
Home’ (video on YouTube) by the now in America (NY) living British
born singer Siji from his new album ‘Adesiji’. “My self-titled sophomore
album 'ADESIJI', is a full portrayal of where I currently stand as an artist
and human being and the experiences that have come to shape my character. A
few of the songs are about the current war, the environment, my yearning to
take a closer peek at my ancestral homeland (Nigeria), where I grew up in as
well as the spiritual side of my roots". www.sijimusic.com
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