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TRENDLETTER 9-May-2022
Retail Trends, Fashion Hub, Song Contest,...
Insights into 150 years fashion business in Austria: Former purveyor to the imperial and royal court Ittner with focus on day and night wear, swimwear, stockings and socks looks back in time and into the future With a look at the 150-years history of the Ittner store located at the boutique boulevard Spiegelgasse in the Inner City of Vienna, the curtain rises on a piece of Austrian fashion history about the development of retail trade during the Habsburg monarchy, the growing importance of sports in fashion due tourism and about today's fashion business which makes the curated ranges selected with focus on sustainability additionally accessible via digital technologies...
Vienna Insight: Jewelry and watch maker Saboteur opens 'Fine Piercing' studio at the brand's worldwide first concept store on 12 May The worldwide first Saboteur concept store located at the Spiegelgasse 8 in the first district of Vienna is a mix of meeting place, store, showroom, art gallery and studio for getting pierced. For the two floors store, the founders of Saboteur, entrepreneur Thomas Sabo of the eponymous worldwide active jewelry and watch brand with headquarters in Germany, his son Santiago Sabo, and artist Rita Sabo, wife of Thomas Sabo, teamed up for the creation of a contemporary art-design-lifestyle concept for a sort of 'multiverse' where exhibition space and gastronomy are placed seamlessly parallel to the retail trade...
Applied arts in practice: Fashion.at visited the '(Con)temporary Fashion Showcase' for the preview of the new fashion hub for exhibitions and exchange at the MAK branch Geymüllerschlössel in Vienna At the entry of the Geymüllerschlössel, a branch of the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, visitors will see the first piece of the exhibition of architect and designer Julia Koerner's work, a 3D printer at the museum shop where vases in the edition of 65 pieces are available. Fashion.at bought by the way the very first vase from the edition showing a similar surface like the pedestals which carry the art-design pieces at the cupola room of the summer palace Geymüllerschlössel. The designer, who lives in Vienna and Los Angeles, combines architecture, art and design for items like architectural objects, artful 3-dimensional prints on fabrics, or elegant clutches...
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...
Not only on Labour Day: Weisser Ring raises with the ongoing campaign 'Violence must not become fashion' together with supporters like the trade union awareness for the legal rights of workers Violence at work is an issue in Austria. For raising the awareness for the legal rights of workers, the victim support, prevention and research association 'Weisser Ring' has started recently the campaign 'Gewalt darf nicht in Mode kommen' (Violence must not become fashion) together with professionals and organizations like photographer Oliver Gast, the fashion retail chain C&A, or the Vida trade union (employees in the fields transport and service such as employees from railway companies, pilots and flight attendants, hairdressers and beauticians, or paramedics and hospital staff,...). One of the mentioned scenarios of violence is where direct contacts with customers happen such as in stores or in hospitals. The attacks range from simple to sexist or racist insults and to physical violence, is reported by the Weisser Ring. It's announced that the campaign will be continued in the next weeks...
Café Exchange at Jugendstil building of Postal Savings Bank presented science & arts programme powered by the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, an initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna In May in the light flooded hall of the former Kassenhalle of the Postsparkasse (Postal Savings Bank) once built by Jugendstil architect and forward thinker Otto Wagner, the new meeting place 'Café Exchange' for science & arts symposiums, talks, workshops and performances will open as classical Viennese Café where coffee and small dishes are served while guests are discussing topics concerning the future. The building is turning successively into a science and arts hub in Vienna. The programme is curated by the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, an initiative of the University of Applied Arts Vienna...
Culinary in Vienna: 'Sparkling Spring Picknick' at the Heldenplatz in front of the Weltmuseum serves baskets filled with Mediterranean cuisine inspired dishes and sparkling drinks (from May) The location of the 'Sparkling Spring Picknick' at the Heldenplatz in front of the Weltmuseum and Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) is one of the largest grass areas in the Inner City of Vienna. Decades ago, the mainly for the public non-accessible green spaces around the Hofburg were opened for the population. Since then they have been used as recreation areas for time-outs with holiday-flair in the metropolis...
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