TRENDLETTER 11-April-2021

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New exhibition dates: MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna throws light on 'Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte', 21 April - 3 October 2021 Men of the Wiener Werkstätte, the famous creative workshop in Vienna of the early 20th century, are widely known. Now, the work of women of the Wiener Werkstätte and their impact on Viennese arts and crafts, design in general as well as fashion design is theme at the upcoming exhibition 'Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte' from 21 April to 3 October 2021 at the MAK Museum of Applied Arts. The research by the MAK team around Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator of the MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive, and Guest Curator Elisabeth Schmuttermeier found treasures of women's work...

Austria Insight: What's a Saurüssel-rucksack? Since 1st April, the Austrian federal states in the east of the country are in hard lockdown again which means museums, hotels, gastronomy or stores are closed. The hard lockdown mode in Lower Austria, Burgenland and Vienna foresees that people can leave their home for work or for recreation such as running, cycling or walking. It's allowed to make a day trip and go by train or car to other areas for the last mentioned recreation activities. Now, Fashion.at searched for offers in the countryside near Vienna and came around a press release with the term 'Saurüssel-Picknickrucksack' in the title. A good reason for reading further...

Handbags, clutches, weekender,... seen at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid Fall/Winter 2021/22 Fashion.at looked through the already available press material on the search for close-ups on bags presented at the Fall/Winter 2021/22 catwalks. The Fernando Claro '2057 LIS' Fall/Winter 2021/22 collection was presented on 8 April. The inspiring idea of the collection is "a secret society in 2057, where money does not exist anymore" with reference to Samurai ethics. The main colors of the women's wear are vivid pink, orange and black&white such as on view at the clutch bag with chess game pattern...

H&M 'Innovation Stories'-series will be continued after the 'Science Story' with the 'Colour Story' with strong focus on saving resources, especially water
The first edition with the name 'Science Story' presented a collection consisting of comfortable sports inspired pieces made from innovative materials like leather from cactus plants. The second edition 'Colour Story' is dedicated to sustainable methods for dyeing fabrics such as the WeareSpinDye technology where color pigments are mixed with the recycled polyester mass without using water...

Style tip Spring 2021 with the environment and health in mind: Shoes from recovered rubber and ocean yarn, skin care & sun protection, fragrance, sunglasses
This spring, every color is the best color as long as it fits the own mood. Bright fruity colors the one day, on the other day muted tones. Skinny jeans or wide jeans is not the question. It depends on the top or jacket, coat and the personal preference to find the perfect fit. To vary jeans styles from one day to the other is the real trend. Freedom in styling up without being bonded to annoying rules of fashion specialists is once more trendy in fashion - probably reinforced by the restrictions the pandemic brought over the last 12 months. Changing roles like moods, being free in who you wanna be (when you are young) respectively who you (already) are. In fashion 2021 nothing can be wrong, except restricting people's personal development...

Power smoothies for on-the-go: Kenwood provides healthy spring recipes like the 'Beet Power' smoothie mixed from beetroot, orange and apple juice, ginger and carrots Kenwood sent recipes for Spring 2021 power smoothies and juices made with the brand's kitchen machines. One of the healthy detox recipes is named 'Beet Power'. Ingredients are 200 ml apple juice, 100 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice,...

Vienna Insight Spring 2021: Street art, symbols and posters Spring arrived these days in Vienna! The temperatures are comfortably warm and the sun shines. People from old to young are on their feet. At the entertainment park of the Prater where normally masses of tourists use the offer of carousels or roller coasters, mainly Viennese citizens re-explore their city and might be surprised by figures like the one on view on this page sitting in a deckchair. The male figure with round belly wears an outfit showing citations of the Austrian Tracht with edelweiss on the suspenders in combination with...