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Schlossseiten magazine's 'Heritage Artists' at Art Vienna at the Schönbrunn Orangery focus on blending historical themes with modern artistic approaches
A special highlight of the fair 'Art Vienna' are the 'Heritage Artists' presented by the magazine 'Schlossseiten', experts on living and lifestyle in Austrian castles, including Marina Blanca, Clara Khevenhüller and Jamie McGregor, who combine historical themes with modern artistic approaches...
19 September 2024 - Article with accompanying podcast
These treasures will make you wonder! Exploration of the treasure chamber of Forchtenstein Castle in Burgenland, Austria
Fashion.at has delved into the topic of 'Chambers of Wonder' in recent days. So when Fashon.at went on an excursion to Forchtenstein Castle in Burgenland, Austria's easternmost federal state, yesterday, a guided tour of the treasure chamber, original rooms of art and wonder from the 17th century, was a must. The chambers were once initiated by Paul I, Prince Esterházy of Galántha in 1692. Today they are called 'Treasure Chamber', but the origin, the fashion of the 16th and 17th century to show the diversity and knowledge of the owners and to make others 'wonder', can't be neglected...
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17 September 2024 - SIGN UP Trendletter 17-September-2024: Fashion Podcasts; Art on Fashion, Identity and Consumerism; Design Exhibition;...
16 September 2024 - Launch of new Fashion.at podcasts with two AI speakers in conversation Get a fresh perspective on topics Fashion.at has recently written about!
15 September 2024 - Article with accompanying podcast
Sharing economy to reduce waste: The City of Vienna's Department of Culture and Science launched a new costume rental service for the independent cultural sector
This week, the City of Vienna's Department of Culture and Science launched a new costume rental service aimed at promoting sustainability within the independent cultural sector. The initiative is in line with the City's Cultural Strategy 2030, which emphasizes environmental responsibility in the arts...
14 September 2024 - Article with accompanying podcast
'Uplift' project at the Vienna Fashion Week showcased creations designed to raise awareness of the mismatch between donated clothing and the actual needs of the poor and homeless
Some runway shows seem to prove that designers have a problem with fashion. This can be interpreted in different ways. In the following case, designers were invited to promote new approaches to social issues - especially concerning the poorest in Austria - by using their skills to show what can go wrong. The results surpassed all expectations...
13 September 2024 - Article with accompanying podcast
Fashion.at save-the-date tip for exploring contemporary design from Austria: 'AUT NOW' at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna will open in a few days
How to describe Austrian design ad hoc? If Fashion.at had to summarize the essence of Austrian design in a few words, immediately, without thinking long, the answer would be: Puristic, where decoration becomes functional, practical with a focus on easy use, and humorous as the spice of the pragmatic soup composed of traditions and innovations, such as the serving plate for sausages 'Wiener Frankfurter' by the Vienna-based design duo Kim+Heep, or the 'Bong' by the Austrian company Gmundner Keramik, made of the traditional green flamed ceramics...
12 September 2024
Fashion.at attended the launch of the Swarovski Created Diamonds collections in Vienna
Today, Fashion.at attended the press event at the Swarovski Kristallwelten Store on Kärntner Straße in Vienna, where some signature pieces from the first collections of lab-grown diamonds were presented. Since the launch of the new line last year, the Created Diamonds pieces have been presented at events such as the 'Masters of Light - from Vienna to Shanghai' and 'Masters of Light - from Vienna to Milan' exhibitions with celebrities from the film and fashion business. Vienna in the name of the exhibitions refers to the history of Swarovski. Founder Daniel Swarovski was inspired by the new possibilities of electricity seen at the 1883 International Electrical Exhibition in Vienna and invented an electrically powered crystal cutting machine...
12 September 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Audacious' by Franz Ferdinand, album 'The Human Fear' (January 10, 2025). Lead singer and guitarist Alex Kapranos about the song: "It's about having an audacious response when you feel the fabric of existence come undone around you. Being bold, contrary..." (continue reading on https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/franz-ferdinand-announce-new-album-the-human-fear)
11 September 2024 - Article with accompanying podcast
Fashion.at's save-the-date tips for fashion-related events at the steirischer herbst '24 festival: artwork on traditional costumes and a performance in Graz's largest fashion store
The annual festival 'steirischer herbst', directed again by Ekaterina Degot, presented yesterday at a press conference in Graz the program of this year's edition under the title 'Horror Patriae'. Fashion at had a look at the program for fashion related events. One of the outstanding contributions at the festival's main exhibition is by Michèle Pagel with her sculptures 'White Trash Bag' #1 and #2 (2023). These concrete-filled garbage bags, dressed in corset-like traditional boy and girl folk costumes...
11 September 2024 - Fashion.at reading tip: The Independent "Most overcrowded country in the world is in Europe - with almost four tourists to every local"
10 September 2024
Vienna Fashion Week kicked off with illustrious guests from Austria's entertainment, fashion, beauty and media industries
Yesterday, the city's most important annual fashion event, Vienna Fashion Week, kicked off with illustrious guests from the entertainment, fashion, beauty and media industries, such as Ö3 radio host Sylvia Graf-Borgstädt, the doyen of Austrian fashion journalism Brigitte Winkler, ex-Miss Vienna, TV host and sports journalist Kimberly Budinsky, ex-Miss Austria, model and content creator Patricia Kaiser, and ex-Miss Austria and PR manager Tanja Duhovic, to name just a few...
8 September 2024
Preview Vienna Fashion Week: Edith Agay 'Renaissance' Spring/Summer 2025 celebrates the idea of rebirth of classical aesthetics
Tomorrow Vienna Fashion Week kicks off with the Opening Show, which will give an overview of the collections of the participating design labels and projects. Recently Edith Agay gave a first glimpse of what will be featured on the label's runway on September 12th. The show coincides with the 25th anniversary of the eponymous label of Austro-Hungarian designer Edith Agay...
7 September 2024 - Trendletter 7-September-2024: Shoe & Bag Trends; Austria at Paralympics; Hiking Trails; Bookstore AI Service;...
Morawa is Fashion.at's favorite bookstore in Vienna, not only because it was one of the first to stock the printed booklet of the study 'FashionAvigator - die interessantesten Seiten zum Thema Mode im WWW' in the mid-90s. The study laid the foundation for the development of the journalistic magazine Fashion.at. Morawa has been at the forefront of new developments in book retailing for decades. This week, Morawa launched the AI chatbot 'Mo'. Fashion.at tested the AI...
6 September 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Short film in which the artist Robert Longo talks about his work with regard to art history, images spread by the media, the Holocaust, today's world politics, etc. Additional exhibition, video watch tip: Since September 4, the exhibition 'Robert Longo' is on view at the Albertina in Vienna (until January 26, 2025). A video showing Robert Longo walking through the exhibition at the Albertina talking about the Freud Drawings is published on YouTube.
5 September 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Love Song (After JE)' by Max Richter from the album 'In A Landscape' (release tomorrow on September 6). Additional reading tip: Interview with the composer "Max Richter on the Music That Made Him" on https://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/max-richter-on-the-music-that-made-him/
5 September 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Video about the role of music in the film 'Joker: Folie à Deux' on the occasion of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival
4 September 2024
The Humanic X Silvia Schneider collection presentation was a celebration of all-time classics in fashion and music
Fashion.at attended the premiere of the new Humanic x Silvia Schneider shoe, bag and accessory collection at the Reaktor in Vienna. The collaboration with the multi-talented Silvia Schneider - the studied jurist, trained dancer and cook is a popular TV presenter, actress and designer of fashion collections...
3 September 2024
Austrian Hiking Villages 'Wanderdörfer' have released a curated list of autumn hiking trails in addition to the interactive trail finder
Preparation is essential for a relaxing and successful hike, which should be planned in terms of duration and length, including the calculation of the altitude to be overcome, according to the physical condition.
A practical tool for planning hiking tours according to your own abilities is provided on the online platform of the Austrian Hiking Villages (Wanderdörfer). In addition to the interactive trail finder - the vibrant heart of the digital service - the Wanderdörfer today released a press information about the latest content on the website, featuring eleven autumn trail tips...
2 September 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Javelin' by Rizzle Kicks
2 September 2024 - The 10 most viewed articles (published this year) on Fashion.at in August:
- Olympic and Paralympic Team Austria presented the outfits for Paris with a focus on inclusion and sustainability on an airy catwalk
- What is the biggest tourist attraction in eastern Austria? It is neither nature nor a cultural landmark. Can you guess?
- Tennis player Dominic Thiem didn't get a wildcard for the Olympics, but he's taking his career to the next level with new eyewear models
- Lena Hoschek incorporated Scottish textile heritage in the 'Tradition' Fall/Winter 2024/25 collection of traditional Austrian clothing such as dirndls
- Johanna Kandl wraps the iconic Vienna Ringturm of the Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein with an encouraging multilingual visual word rap
- Austria celebrated its five Olympic medals and a total of 22 top-ten places
- Vienna Awards for Fashion & Lifestyle campaign 'Together We Are One' shows Kiera Chaplin as Justitia
- Vienna Fashion Week, under the 2024 motto 'Fashion Power,' will premiere new projects with a social and ecological agenda
- Beautyme's Top Picks for Repairing Skin and Hair, Bringing Radiance to Your Appearance
- ORF broadcasts 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and selected museums offer free admission for Swifties; at the MAK, visitors can dance in an art installation
1 September 2024
Para javelin thrower Natalja Eder won Austria's first medal at the Paralympic Summer Games Paris 2024
The Olympic Games are not over yet! The Paris 2024 Paralympics take place from August 28 to September 8. Some may believe that inclusion should look different and that the tradition of holding Para-athlete competitions separately from the actual Olympic Games is outdated. For example, the Austrian teams at the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been presenting their equipment together since Beijing 2008. It's more than just a fashion show - it's a statement for inclusion in sports. Austria is happy about every medal of every athlete! And since yesterday Austria has one more. This time it's a bronze medal in the women's javelin, won by 44-year-old Natalija Eder...
This week, Ludwig Reiter released the press information for the new campaign for the Autumn/Winter 2024 collection of shoes and bags for women and men in classic designs, often referencing models from the late 19th/early 20th century in new interpretations. The protagonists of the campaign are friends of the brand, such as Ivica Brnic, professor of architecture at the Vienna University of Technology 'TU Wien', and British interior designer Chloe Vestey...
30 August 2024 - Trendletter 30-August-2024: Austrian X Scottish Traditions; Fashion Shows in Vienna; Art X Robotics;...
29 August 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Star' by Bryan Ferry and painter, writer, performance artist Amelia Barratt, written by Amelia Barratt, Bryan Ferry, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, from Brian Ferry's album 'Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023' (October 25)
On the occasion of the upcoming fashion show of Callisti at the Hotel SO/ Vienna, the label released campaign images shot by founder Martina Mueller-Callisti herself. The hotel is strongly associated with a stylish lifestyle due to collaborations with artists such as Pipolotti Rist or fashion designers. The photo series features models wearing outfits from the new 'Timeless Reflections' Autumn/Winter 2024/25 collection in settings such as on their way to a date in a hotel bar or restaurant...
29 August 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Short film about the life and work of Lee Miller - fashion model who turned from art photography to fashion photography and photojournalism "The most rebellious female photographer of all time? Lee Miller", narrated by her granddaughter, presented by the Victoria & Albert Museum.
28 August 2024 - The explorer spirit of Marco Polo in a perfume bottle! When searching for information about perfumes from Venice and landing on the website of the Venice Film Festival If today you are looking for information about a perfume that pays tribute to an explorer with roots in Venice, from a label that has Venice in its name, and for its fragrances like one with the name Maria Callas, then sooner or later the Venice Film Festival will be linked to your search...
In the upcoming exhibition at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna, visitors are invited to explore the fragile and ephemeral nature of the environment by immersing themselves in an Alpine landscape rendered in the evocative color blue. The title 'Ultra Mare,' which translates as 'beyond the sea' or 'ultramarine,' refers to both the distant origin of the pigment and the vastness of the landscapes it depicts. In Scheiber's work, blue is more than a color; it is a representation of the divine, the feminine, and the fragile beauty of nature, making her art a poignant commentary on environmental and spiritual interconnectedness...
27 August 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Short film "The spiritual properties of colour – who were the Blue Rider?" by the British Tate Gallery gives insights into 'Der Blaue Reiter' (The Blue Rider) art collective (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc,...) in Munich, Germany in the early 20th century and the influence of theater, performance and music on art, as well as the inspiration of the artworks on a jazz musician with live performances in the exhibition.
26 August 2024
The Heidi Horten Collection team asked people about their favorite works of art for the design of the upcoming new permanent exhibition
Today, the Heidi Horten Collection presented the results of the #ARTfluence initiative's voting for the favorite works of art that will shape the museum's new permanent exhibition, 'Klimt ⮂ Warhol,' which is scheduled to open on September 6. Over the course of nine months, more than 21,000 votes were cast, including 13,337 analog votes and 8,002 digital votes. The high level of participation underscores the diversity of the museum's audience and their varied artistic preferences...
26 August 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Director Celine Danhier's documentary 'A Sense of Beauty' provides an inside look at the creation of Oscar de la Renta's Pre-Fall 2024 couture collection, including visits to the artisans' workshops and the production of textiles based on the design team's concepts.
At the twelfth Kitzbühel Film Festival, acclaimed actor Philipp Hochmair was honored with the prestigious Gams Trophy for his outstanding acting achievements. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of a specially designed 18-carat gold ring by Franziskus Kriegs-Au, managing director of jeweler Julius Hügler. Franziskus Kriegs-Au - himself a TV personality as jewelry expert...
In the Fall/Winter 2024/25 collection of the 'Tradition' line by Lena Hoschek, the designer explored the cultural history of Scotland, especially the rich history of textiles from tartans to Fair Isle and Paisley patterns. The latter got its name from the fact that the pattern, which is of Persian origin, was produced by weavers in Paisley, Scotland...
23 August 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'We Pray' by Coldplay (currently on tour in Vienna) with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI, album 'Moon Music' (October 4)
Aleksandra Domanović's work is deeply engaged with topics surrounding robotics and media, particularly how these fields intersect with gender, identity, and the legacy of historical narratives. Her exploration of robotics is rooted in the cultural and technological history of the Balkans, as well as in broader global contexts. This is evident in works such as her reinterpretation of the robotic hand designed by Serbian scientist Rajko Tomović, a key figure in the development of early prosthetics...
21 August 2024 - Trendletter 21-August-2024: Voting for Fashion Design; Comfortable Train Travel?; Quiz Hiking Wear;...
Lobmeyr, the Viennese glass and chandelier manufacturer with a 200-year history of craftsmanship and design, will provide insights into the development of its products and the influence of table culture on its designs in two sections at Homo Faber in Venice: 'Dialogues' and 'Celebrations'. In 'Dialogues', Lobmeyr will showcase 14 iconic drinking services, each representing a collaboration with legendary designers such as Adolf Loos...
20 August 2024 - Fashion.at music video tip: What do you think? Is this impressive dance video made with digital face-swapping or not? A few hours ago, Swedish garage punk band The Hives released the video for 'Rigor Mortis Radio,' which begins with the lyrics "You've never seen me look so good before…" and features choreography inspired by the legendary Bob Fosse.
19 August 2024
Cytara's quiz about what to wear and what to pack in a backpack for a day's hike on a mountain
Hello! My name is Cytara, and I'm here as the AI chatbot for the users of Fashion.at. I can engage with you about various topics related to fashion, culture, art, and design. Today, I'm excited to kick off a quiz focusing on what to wear and what to pack in a backpack for a day's hike on a mountain. Just a little reminder: even AI chatbots like me aren't perfect and can sometimes make mistakes, but I strive to do my best! So, let's get started with our quiz about outfit and backpack essentials for one day of easy hiking. Are you ready?
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