TRENDLETTER 7-March-2021

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Viennese dance and night club The Loft presents young musicians at 'The Loft Night Show' online The next Night Show by the Viennese dance and night club The Loft will be on view from 14 March at theloft.at. It's the 3rd edition of the series where cultural producers from fields like music, literature or film are interviewed. The show is staged mainly in a living room-like scenery where the interviews, poetry slams, literature readings, music performances happen. At the upcoming 3rd edition, the band Gazelle & the Bear will be presented. The duo released their debut album 'Weird Shaped Clouds' in January this year...

Preview of the Plant & Grow gardening and outdoor furniture collection by H&M Home From 25 March, the Plant & Grow outdoor furniture and gardening collection will be available at H&M Home. At the preview, H&M stages an outdoor furniture scenario with classical wooden bench, all-weather chair and practical gardening tools like greenhouses in different sizes and plant pots...

Lena Hoschek AW21/22 'Biedermeier' inspired by pre-revolutionary 19th century period and Arnulf Rainer's 'Pseudologica' series of reworked erotic scenes
Austrian designer Lena Hoschek presented the first looks of the new Autumn/Winter 2021/22 collection with the name 'Biedermeier' referencing the period when Central Europe had to be restored again in the early 19th century beginning with the Congress in Vienna (1815) until the revolution in 1848. The German word Biedermeier references 'good citizens' who aren't interested in politics and make no trouble. During this time, social living happened more and more at home...

Natural, local resources and regional craftsmanship are topics of designforum Wien exhibition of Slovenian design 'The Future Of Living'
Preview of the upcoming exhibition 'The Future Of Living' at designforum Wien, 5 March - 25 April 2021: The wine cabinet 'Wine Studiolo' by 'Vulgaris' is inspired by renaissance cabinets. The name studiolo references a desk which is filled with books and writing utensils. 'Vulgaris' turned it into a wine cabinet. Outside at the doors on view, a man and a woman kissing each other. The illustration in the style of renaissance drawings shows a signature graphical motif of Vulgaris...

Rediscovered again at the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum (Tyrolean Folk Art Museum) in Innsbruck: 16th century wooden panels by carpenter Conrad Gottfried showing decorative scenes made from inlay work The wooden panels by Conrad Gottfried from the 16th century (1570/80) were originally made for one of the buildings of the Volderwildbad, an estate in around 1100 meters height in Tyrol. The natural spa was used since the 15th century by hunting companies and as a recreation area. The name Volderwildbad references the healthy water source and means as much as 'wild bath in the Volder valley'...

Street exhibition 'Almost. Viennese World Tours 1873 / 2020' at the fence at Wien Museum Karlsplatz It's definitely travel time in Austria! Fashion.at searched for alternative views on the subject of travel and found the press information about the upcoming open air exhibition 'Almost' at the construction site fence at Wien Museum Karlsplatz. From 11 February until 28 March visitors can literally 'travel' at the fence and enjoy photographic works of 'Vienna World Tours 1873 / 2020'. The images from the year 1873 are from the Vienna World's Fair where cultures, technological developments, agricultural innovations,... from the whole world were presented. The world exhibition was negatively impacted by the cholera epidemic...

Preview 'Innovation Science Story' collection by H&M; leather from cactus plants, performance fabrics from castor beans From 18 March, the first items of the new H&M collection series 'Innovation Science Story' will be available at selected stores and online. The collection shows how scientific theory of environmentally fashion, especially innovative, sustainable textile production processes and design, are turned into practice. The first range of comfortable sports inspired pieces in combination with eye-catching accessories and shoes pay homage to forward thinking innovators of materials like the leather alternative from cactus plants, developed by the Mexican founders of 'Desserto', or EVO by Fulgar yarns made from castor beans...

Call by Austrian 'Poolbar Festival' for applications to upcycling 'Re: Post-Labor' and media development 'Digital Labor' Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch in the Austrian federal state Vorarlberg sent a reminder of the call for applications to two projects where designers, technicians, and other creative heads can realize ideas in the fields upcycling of materials into new lifestyle products and - at the second call, in the field creation of new media where digital specialists develop technical solutions for virtual festival stages with enabled audience interactivity. According to the press release, the applications can be submitted until 7th March...