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TRENDLETTER 8-July-2021
Environment & Sound: Artists Labs by Wiener Festwochen call participants for exploring Vienna through the eyes and from sound perspectives of artists from Brazil, Turkey and Iran The Wiener Festwochen 'Artists Labs' will happen over several days in the 1st half of September. The calls for participants who are interested in art, artistic research are currently ongoing and will end on 31 July. For the application, the artists request some information from the candidates such as Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (Brazil) who will select for the 5-days lab 'Encounters of Waters' a diverse (nationalities, interests, crafts,...) group of women for the shamanic-inspired exploration of the Danube. Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha asks questions such as...
Product design in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic): MKG Hamburg exhibits the work of designer and teacher Christa Petroff-Bohne Female designers from former East Germany (GDR, 1949 - 1990) are rarely celebrated like male colleagues from the West. The exhibition 'Beauty of Form. The Designer Christa Petroff-Bohne' closes now this historical gap in the cultural consciousness about the achievements of designers of the former GDR (or in German, the DDR) during the 1950ies, 60ies when design was brought into people's everyday life...
Sound, health and recreation tip: 5 days yoga, meditations, sound baths, dance, and explorations of nature at the new Selina Bad Gastein, Austria The hotel in Bad Gastein is new in the portfolio of Selina. The hotel property chain is specialized in turning locations into contemporary homes with recreation services and remote working places for global nomads. Recently, the Selina hotel location in the Austrian spa and ski town Bad Gastein sent information about the upcoming special sound, health and recreation programme 'Yoga & Sound Meditation Retreat' by medical doctor...
Vienna Insight: Home textiles by the world traveler Silvia Gattin. The fashion and interior pieces by the cross-cultural producer and store owner are statements for a fair society Silvia Gattin's new interior pieces have a fresh, sunny, optimistic look! The colorful ikat patterns of the latest range of cushion sleeves are made from a weaving of silk (80%) and cotton yarns. For the production of the textiles, Silvia Gattin collaborated with a manufacturer in Turkey where the traditional fabrics were made. 'Slow fashion' is central for the studied business economist's (International Business Administration) approach to participate in a fair and sustainable global economy...
Impulstanz 2021 starts with performances like Trajal Harrell's fashion-catwalk inspired dance interpretation 'Maggie The Cat' of Tennessee Williams' play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' The new view on the role allocations of the main characters with focus on the black servants is realized with a diverse cast; Trajal Harrell appears as 'Big Mama'. On occasion of the world premiere in 2019 in Manchester, the performance with voguing, catwalk dance moves received positive critics such as...
MQ Vienna Fashion Week 21 campaign sujet photographed by Markus Morianz is inspired by the start into a new adventure Vienna based internationally working photographer Markus Morianz (studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna) was inspired for the new campaign of the 13th edition of the MQ Vienna Fashion Week by the architecture of the entry to the spa area of Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof. This year's MQ Vienna Fashion Week campaign was developed out of the thoughts about a 'new beginning' and 'lightness'...
Exhibition 'Fashion Show' explores textiles, costumes of Renaissance, Baroque era with objects from Schloss Ambras Innsbruck and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna The art history museum Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, Tyrol announced for next summer until autumn (17 June until 3 October 2021) the exhibition 'Fashion Show. Princely Wardrobes Of Three Centuries' with around 130 objects from the own collections in Tyrol and Vienna as well as from national and international lenders for throwing a closer look at representative clothing made of precious textiles from the 16th to the 18th century. The period is known for the development of pattern systems and tailoring techniques which allowed the production of individually to the body adapted clothing. The favorite textiles...
Austria insight into culture, shipping, music, culinary, art: Fashion.at visited the 'city at the lake' Gmunden in the Salzkammergut, European Capital of Culture 2024 Fashion.at visited Gmunden in Upper Austria in the Salzkammergut. The region is famous for its mountain-lake landscapes and a cultural history which can be traced back over thousands of years. The 'Salz'kammergut references 'salt' in its name. The village Hallstatt with its ancient salt mine is the worldwide reference for living worlds of prehistoric times known as Hallstatt Culture. Hallstatt as well as Gmunden (the city is strongly associated with ceramic production) are two of more than twenty municipalities around the city Bad Ischl which will form the European Capital of Culture in 2024. Fashion.at was in short words in one of Austria's most interesting regions where nature and culture play together since thousands of years. Alongside salt, the region has selected water as a focus point for discussing topics like tradition & counter-culture, (hyper)tourism & retreat. Currently, the call for projects is ongoing...
Selected posts from the temporarily published fashion feeds (permanently at fashion.at/mobile)
8 July 2021 - #Music 'Reach Out' and 'Olympus' by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, album 'A Beginner's Mind' (24 Sept)
7 July 2021 - #Music 'Fckrz' by Luca Malina; currently on top of the Spotify 'Female Music Force' playlist (fast checked today)
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