TRENDLETTER 18-April-2022: Eurovision Song Contest, Vienna Design Week, Diversity Ball,...

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TRENDLETTER 18-April-2022

Eurovision Song Contest, Vienna Design Week, Diversity Ball,...

Preview of the stage outfits of the representatives of Austria LUM!X feat. Pia Maria at the Eurovision Song Contest (10, 12, 14 May) in Turin Austria will be represented at this year's Eurovision Song Contest from 10 to 14 May in Turin, Italy by the duo DJ LUM!X (aka Luca Michlmayr) and singer Pia Maria who have teamed up for the empowering song 'Halo'. The pop-song for the dance floor is an anthem for resilience, for finding power in oneself also in difficult situations. The first Eurovision stage performance of 'Halo' will happen on 10th May, when LUM!X feat. Pia Maria appear as the 13th band in Europe's largest music competition with Europe-wide TV broadcasts. Pia Maria will be dressed in customized pieces by 'Manufaktur Herzblut'. Her top with trompe l'oeil print shows a reptile skin and above pearl chains. Pia Maria wears it in combination with a feather-light jacket and fake-reptile skin trousers matching the song's story about an angel's hell ride...

Vienna Design Week calls for creative concepts in the field 'Urban Food and Design' with focus on sustainable retail and production (applications until 10 May 2022) The projects reach from sustainable ideas for food retail to responsible mass customization of snacks. The Ask Me Anything-Sessions where interested creators can ask representatives of companies are the supportive part of the call for concepts which ends on 10 May. At viennadesignweek.at, the company's tasks for inspiring creative concepts with focus on environmentally friendly retail and production are published. For example in the field of food retail, one of the questions is about...

Sustainable fashion stylings from pieces by charity second-hand retailer Humana for the Diversity Ball on 7 May 2022 at Kursalon Vienna Recently, an illustrious group from music, film, theater, sport and politics met at the store of the charity second-hand retailer Humana for the presentation of sustainable fashion styles for the upcoming Diversity Ball on 7 May at the Kursalon in Vienna. At least three good reasons brought the popular representatives of Austrian culture to the store of Humana for modeling in outfits from pre-worn clothing: The idea to propagate saving resources by the creation of new styles from second-hand pieces and promoting at the same time the charity organization Humana which supports with the proceeds of the sale of second-hand fashion projects against poverty and inequality. The third good reason was the Diversity Ball itself where the idea of a society without barriers is celebrated each year...

Research results on the instrumentalisation of fashion in Austria under the Nazi regime are exhibited as part of 'Vienna Falls in Line' until 24 April 2022 at Wien Museum MUSA Crucial for building a consciousness of being a society of diverse and equal members is the mediation of an objective, critical view on historical structures such as the ones which led in the 1930s to inhumane behavior that was legalized by law and enforced with organizations and associations which decided over the right to work respectively the quality of work by evaluating additionally a person's mind setting in a political sense for being in line with the regime. These aspects were researched among others by the curators Ingrid Holzschuh and Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber for the exhibition 'Vienna Falls in Line. The Politics of Art under National Socialism.' Several of the research objects from the extensive archive of documents and collections of artworks are exhibited until 24 April 2022 at Wien Museum MUSA such as insights into the 'House of Fashion' (Haus der Mode) where education, professions, production, export and propaganda for Austrian clothing and textiles were planned and carried out...

Austrian festival 'Fesch'markt' released the Spring/Summer market calendar The design, food and lifestyle market festival 'Fesch'markt' released the calendar for Spring/Summer 2022 (Graz 6 - 8 May, Vienna 3 - 5 June , Feldkirch 1 - 3 July)...

Wineries from the World Heritage Cultural Landscape Wachau invite to the special wine tasting days 'Wachau Wine Spring' Since the beginning of the pandemic, it's the first 'Wachauer Weinfrühling' (Wachau Wine Spring) event that's organized together with more than 100 vineries and an elaborated mobility concept with busses, trains and ferries on 30 April and 1 May. After the events in 2020 and 2021 had to be postponed, participation this year reached a record number of 111 wineries. The Wachau has due to its cultural landscape with focus on viticulture World Heritage status. The culture of vine is also in the focus at the tasting of the agricultural products of the region which are produced under quality criteria and labels such as Steinfeder or Smaragd which apply exclusively to vines grown in the Wachau...