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10 May 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Take A Bite' by ​beabadoobee, album 'This Is How Tomorrow Moves' (August 16)

Ask an Austrian - or even a large language-model chatbot - to name two signature tableware designs, one in ceramic and one in porcelain, and the answers are likely to be the green flamed design from Gmundner Keramik and the 'Vienna Rose' (or Viennese Rose) creation from Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur Wien. The latter is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a campaign focusing on the use of the sets featuring the famous 1920s design. The décor was designed by the company's employees and presented to the public in 1924...

Athletes of the Olympic and Paralympic Team Austria unveiled the official outfits for Paris 2024 in a fashion presentation at Vienna's MQ Libelle. The collection, comprising 60 pieces from eight outfitters and valued at €4,300, combines the functionality of performance wear with sustainability requirements for pieces in the team's signature colors of red-white-red, referencing the colors of the Austrian flag. For the Opening Ceremony, the athletes will appear in a sporty-elegant interpretation of the Austrian national costume, the Tracht...

8 May 2024 - Fashion.at 'Save the date' tip (June 6): The fashion department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna 'Modeklasse' announced the upcoming 'Show Modeklasse' on its lively Instagram channel, where posts like fashion visuals of this year's diplomas or a tip to read an interview by the Financial Times with the director of Modeklasse, Craig Green, who is quoted in the article's title "I encourage my students to create fearless work", are published.

A 'Mission Austria' in the truest sense of the word is currently underway in the country's fashion industry. The fashion school Michelbeuern and 'Mission Austria', the organizers of the Miss Austria and Mister Austria contest, have joined forces. The finalists - five women and five men - will be dressed in custom-made outfits...

6 May 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: Video 'symptom of life' by Willow, from the album 'empathogen' (out now)

6 May 2024 - Fashion.at reading tip: CNN "2024 Met Gala: Everything to know about fashion's annual soiree"

6 May 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Live at Met Gala 2024 With Vogue

One of the most interesting fashion-related exhibitions in Vienna at the moment is that of Florentina Leitner at the Geymüllerschlössel, a branch of the MAK Museum of Applied Arts. Fashion.at visited the opening of the retrospective, which highlights the work of the Austrian talent, who lives in Antwerp, Belgium. Director Lilli Hollein welcomed the guests in the romantic garden of the Biedermeier summer palace. People were relaxing in the green and on benches and chairs, children were playing, at a table women created flower artworks. Fashion.at went with designer Florentina Leitner to James Turrell's skyspace 'The Other Horizon' to talk about her work and how fashion can be used to raise awareness for environmental and social issues. The first question was why the designer chooses themes from film and literature, such as Jeanne d'Arc or the film about Marie Antoinette in the L'Autrichienne collection, rather than those that deal directly with current socio-political issues such as diversity, inclusion or resource conservation in relation to conscious fashion consumption...

4 May 2024
Omoda's parent company, Chery Automobile, unveiled Mornine, an AI-equipped walking robot for retail services and family care with a focus on emotional expression

Chery Automobile, headquartered in Wuhu (China), made waves in Europe last year when it announced that its Omoda brand - O stands for oxygen, moda for modern, referring to a sustainable and fashionable lifestyle - would be launching new cars in Europe. On the Austrian market, the fully electric Omoda 5 EV will be available as a counterpart to the petrol version Omoda 5. This week, the latest news from Chery Automobile, one of China's largest automobile exporters, arrived at Fashion.at. This time it was about the robot Mornine...

3 May 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Whatcha Doing' by Dua Lipa, album 'Radical Optimism' (released today)

2 May 2024
E-bike selection tips from Austrian mobile operator and e-bike manufacturer Spusu, known for digital infrastructure activities and mechanical crafts

Bicycles, mobile networks, and fiber-optic infrastructure don't go together in the same company? At Austria's Spusu, they do, and the family-owned business has become an example of how new technologies and mechanical craftsmanship can be combined in one company. Spusu is the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. Since it was founded in 2015 by Franz Pichler, the company has continued to expand - including into other countries such as Italy and the United Kingdom. Franz Pichler gave a few tips for those interested in buying a new bike - without forgetting to point out how the e-bikes he produces meet his requirements. One of the tips concerns the capacity of the battery...

1 May 2024 - Fashion.at music video tip: 'Dig' by Orlando Weeks feat. Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale, from the album 'Loja' (out on June 6)

30 April 2024
Fashion.at visited the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut and came across the traces of female resistance fighters

The cycling group started their tour and Fashion.at began to explore Bad Ischl until the presentation and discussion about the Willy-Fred bike tour project took place in a bookstore in Bad Ischl. Here in the bookstore, Fashion.at was able to meet Johannes Staudinger and talk to him to get more insight into the project. Staudinger is an enthusiastic cyclist and initiated the sport and culture association Velodrom in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Velodrom is also the association behind the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut project 'Tours by Willy -Fred. Bicycle Partisans In The Salzkammergut', which was equipped by the media technology and design specialist with an app...

29 Apr 2024 - Fashion.at music tip: 'Afterimage' by Justice and Rimon, album 'Hyperdrama' (out now)

28 April 2024
Fashion.at on Chiharu Shiota's 25-dress installation 'Where Are We Now?'

In this article, Fashion.at reports on the Chiharu Shiota exhibition and a bicycle tour on the tracks of resistance fighters. In both cases, women play a central role. In Chiharu Shiota's installation of 25 dresses in a tunnel, part of a more than 7.6-kilometer system of tunnels dug by male prisoners, who were politically persecuted and undesirable to the Nazi regime, under inhumane conditions that in many cases led to death, the question arises as to why the artist used women's clothing to commemorate the pain of these men - poorly fed and dressed too lightly for the around 8-degree temperatures in the tunnels they built for their tormentors to store, research and develop military weapons. "Why women's clothing?" was one of the questions that came from the audience...

27 April 2024
Vienna Design Week builds on designs for dreams and energy- and resource-saving solutions for the future; some calls for participation are still open

Fashion.at spoke with representatives of ARE Austrian Real Estate, the masterminds behind the 'Village im Dritten', where this year's festival headquarters will be located. The focus of the conversation was the village's climate-friendly energy systems. The Vienna Design Week program interplays with the development of this part of the city. One of the examples of how this interplay will be realized is the initiative of the program partner Vienna Business Agency in the format 'Urban Food & Design', one of a total of eight formats presented by the director of the VDW, Gabriel Roland. In this format, the design of the lounge and hospitality area of the festival headquarters will incorporate the results of 'Biofabrique Vienna', which is currently presented at the Climate Biennale Vienna...

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27 Apr 2024 - Fashion.at watch tip: Nowness launched exclusivley the new video 'New York City Ballet principal Taylor Stanley performs Kyle Abraham's story of love and yearning', music 'Where's The Catch (feat André 3000) by James Blake, costume design by Giles Deacon

25 April 2024
Cytara's quiz about design & art: Do you know who designed these iconic pieces?

Cited from the generated greeting (the greeting can change): "Hello! My name is Cytara, and I'm an AI chatbot for the users of the magazine Fashion.at. I'm here to talk about fashion, culture, art, and design with you. Today, I have a quiz prepared for you about designers who have made a mark at the intersection of design and artistic expression. Please keep in mind that, like all AI chatbots, I may not be perfect, but I do my best to provide you with accurate and interesting information. ..."

24 April 2024
Fashion.at's selection of three workshops at the Impulstanz Festival: Unambitious Stripper, Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit, and Countertechnique

Fashion.at browsed through the online program of the Vienna International Dance Festival 'Impulstanz' (July 11 - August 11), which today opened its digital ticket shop for more than 250 workshop and research projects. It's almost a tradition at Fashion.at to write a short article about the annual festival highlights with a selection of some of the courses. This time it took longer than usual to browse the site, because the texts are interesting and read like a compilation of philosophical thoughts about dance as an art form practiced in communities with reflections on the self and society. Fashion.at visited for example the pages with more information about the workshops 'Unambitious Stripper' by Isabel Lewis or 'Countertechnique' by Eva-Maria Schaller...