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TRENDLETTER 7-August-2022
Boho Chic, Film Quiz, Exploring Society through Art,...
Vienna Insight: Fashion pop-up by ciao.thelabel at the gastro-garden 'Palais Freiluft' in the garden of Palais Auersperg Fashion.at followed the invitation to an outdoor fashion presentation at the 'Palais Freiluft' in Vienna. Matching the holiday flair of the shared gastro-garden which appears like a globetrotter culinary tour, the new brand dedicated to the cosmopolitan-bohemian boho chic 'ciao.thelabel' has chosen the location and invited to the press presentation at the pop-up store-booth. Fashion.at visited the garden in the afternoon to meet label founder Nina Nossal before the rush got too big...
Film quiz inspired by the Max Brown Movie Nights screening programme for music lovers The new screening programme for the Movie Nights at the 30-seats Max Theatre of the Max Brown 7th District Hotel in Vienna is presented with citations from iconic movies. The upcoming film on 7th August gives the first hint of the special focus of the programme which is well curated for music lovers. Fashion.at was inspired by the Max Brown programme announcement and collected some questions concerning iconic fashion-related movies...
Exploring music and society through artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat at exhibitions in New York City and Vienna Jean-Michel Basquiat stands for a new way of communicating social topics concerning inequality, racism, capitalism by using elements from music and art with dadaistic-automatic writing for an expressive mix. The artist, who lived from 1960 until 1988, implemented word raps from music (hip-hop), the dramaturgy of cartoon stories, and the dynamic painting style of street art for landing messages in a fast paced society flooded with media content. Basquiat was embedded into the cultural life of New York City and incorporated the city's vibrating esthetics into his artwork. In the early 1980s he appeared as the protagonist of this 'New York Beat' in the film 'Downtown 81'...
Artist Vladimir Dodig Trokut's installation 'Imagine' placed as statement against war and gun violence on top of the Albertina wing in Vienna John Lennon's song from 1971 is the inspiring source of the art installation showing a caged revolver which was placed earlier this week as an anti-war symbol and statement against gun violence on the wing of the museum Albertina in Vienna. Albertina Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder sees parallels between the art object 'Imagine' by Croatian artist Vladimir Dodig Trokut and the mission of Albertina which he describes as a peace project in the sense of enlightenment...
Eligius Award winning art jewelry by Lilian Naomi Mattuschka exhibited at the MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna The Eligius Award is named after the patron saint of goldsmiths Saint Eligius. The prize honors the manual skills as well as the artistic expression of artist who create jewelry-art objects such as in the case of this year's winner Lilian Naomi Mattuschka whose body jewelry from the series 'Volatili/Birds' might appear at the first sight like a wing clip to restrict freedom or an orthopedic device, a sort of orthosis to improve posture. The object is developed from research on norms and social interactions...
Historical travel via VR glasses to the living spaces of members of the reigning family of the monarchy in the 18th & 19th century in Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna The new digital culture programme 'Schloss Schönbrunn VR' provides the closest experience of the life of members of the reigning Habsburg family in the castle. The history journey via VR (virtual reality) glasses reaches over the period of the reign of Maria Theresia (lived from 1717 until 1780) to the period of Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth (lived from 1837 until 1898). The developers 'Filmfinity' of the virtual time travel collaborated under the creative direction of Lior Babadost & Ethan Babadost with the Science & Research Department of the Schönbrunn Group for the staging of the historical scenes...
Fashion.at Style Tip for Harvest Festivals in Austria The upcoming harvest festival season starts in Austria depending on the region at the end of August and lasts until November. The popular 'Wiesn' folk festivals coincide with the harvest festival season. In Vienna for example, the 'Kaiser Wiesn' folk festival runs this year from 22 September until 9 October 2022. In Zell am See Kaprun (Salzburg), the harvest festival season starts with the Farmers' Autumn weekly markets in the last days of August and ends in late October. The (non-obligatory) dress code for both events is similar: Traditional rural clothing in classic style or new interpretations of trachten.
Fashion.at received some 'Wiesn'-trend tips by festival specialists from Salzburg...
Release of the first dates and names of designers of the MQ Vienna Fashion Week: Headicraft - THAIdentity Night on 15 September The presentation of fashion, accessories and textile design from Thailand is every year one of the highlights of the annual MQ Vienna Fashion Week. It's announced that this year's designers Marionsiam, Kram Phon, Paul Direk, Riva, and Sirintra will be present at the 13th edition of the annual show which happens in 2022 under the motto 'Headicraft – THAIdentity' referencing with the word creation from 'head' and 'handicraft' the way how the designers manifest Thailand's identity through fashion...
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Answers (with links to IMDb, the Internet Movie Database for trailers, plot, cast, crew, awards,...) to the questions of the film quiz:
The name of the movie
- (with music by Herbie Hancock) playing in the fashion & photographer scene starring model Veruschka is: Blow Up
- with costume designs by Jean Paul Gaultier and actress, model, singer Milla Jovovich in the main role is: The Fifth Element
- about Paris Fashion Week with a sensational cast like Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Kim Basinger, Tim Robbins, Marcello Mastroianni is: Ready to Wear (original title 'Prêt-à-Porter')
- (with songs by George and Ira Gershwin) about new fashion trends and models with Audrey Hepburn (dressed by Hubert de Givenchy) and Fred Astaire in the main roles is: Funny Face
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