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TRENDLETTER 9-August-2024
Eyewear Design; Fashion Week; Lifestyle Awards; Design Fair;...
Polimoda students for Silhouette
Silhouette presented the results of the collaboration with the Florence-based fashion school Polimoda
2 August 2024 - The Austrian brand Silhouette is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its very light and durable Titan Minimal Art eyewear. Since the early 2000s, they have also been used in space and received positive feedback from astronauts. Space is a topic at Silhouette! The lightness of architectural construction, which, through the dynamic creation of a space, refers to something above the earth, is also the inspiration for one of the three students who presented their reinterpretations of Silhouette eyewear as part of their graduation show at Polimoda...
Preview Vienna Fashion Week
Preview of what to expect before the shows begin: Vienna Fashion Week, under the 2024 motto 'Fashion Power,' will premiere new projects with social and ecological agenda
5 August 2024 - This year's Vienna Fashion Week will take place from September 9 to 14 in the cultural area of the cooperation partner MuseumsQuartier. VFW released the showplan with this year's motto 'Fashion Power @ VIENNA FASHION WEEK'. Some names from previous years are missing from the plan, instead there are projects like 'Fashion Reloaded Powered by Pensionist*Innenklubs Wien', which is described as a project that...
Kiera Chaplin for Vienna Awards
Vienna Awards for Fashion & Lifestyle campaign 'Together We Are One' shows Kiera Chaplin as Justitia
7 August 2024 - Today, the campaign images for the upcoming Vienna Awards for Fashion & Lifestyle were released, along with information about the making of. In front of the camera stands Kiera Chaplin, the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin. Kiera Chaplin was honored as Style Icon of the Year at the Vienna Awards 2010. Behind the camera is Austrian photographer Mato Johannik, known for his work on numerous fashion productions...
Bioplastic jewelry at Blickfang
Blickfang Vienna featured some of the highlights of the upcoming international design fair, including jewelry label Birdy & Bee and furniture company Neuvermöbelt from Austria
3 August 2024 - The design fair Blickfang, which travels to German, Swiss and Austrian cities, will be held in Vienna for the 21st time in 2024. The annual fair will take place from November 8 to 10. In its latest press release, Blickfang provides a first glimpse of what visitors can expect. It's announced that around 150 labels will take part in the three-day event. Among the presented highlights of Blickfang Vienna 2024 are fashion made of GOTS-certified fabrics, jewelry made of bioplastic and furniture from recycled and ecological materials...
Clothing at virtual museum Salzzeit
The virtual museum of the Salzkammergut at Salzzeit.at exhibits artifacts like the 'Flinserl' carnival costume or the festive miner's uniform from the 18th century
6 August 2024 - The 'Flinserl'-outfit, a carnival costume from the Ausseerland (Styria) in the Salzkammergut region, is one of the highlights that Fashion.at saw on its tour through the new virtual museum, which was launched yesterday, August 5th. The artifact is exhibited in the 'Cultural History' hall of the virtual space, which can be explored with an avatar. When entering Salzzeit.at, the user can choose between German and English. Another outfit is the one of miners. It is presented with a timeline feature starting from the Neolithic Age, the Late Bronze Age, the Hallstatt Period, the Middle Ages, the turn of the 19th century until today...
Ringturm wrapping by Johanna Kandl
Johanna Kandl wraps the iconic Vienna Ringturm of the Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein with an encouraging multilingual visual word rap
8 August 2024 - Vienna's Ringturm attracts residents and visitors to the city every late summer and fall with artworks that address socio-political issues, the zeitgeist, and people's hopes and fears. In 2024, the artwork 'With the Best Ingredients' by Austrian artist Johanna Kandl features the words 'courage', 'solidarity' and 'together' in different fonts and languages. The artist was inspired to create the encouraging visual word rap by the 1982 song 'Keine Angst' (No Fear) by Austropop legend Hansi Lang...
Furniture from upcycled garbage cans
On the occasion of today's Earth Overshoot Day: Fashion.at took a look at the gabarage outdoor furniture made of tarpaulin materials and faulty garbage cans
1 August 2024 - Today is Earth Overshoot Day, which means that humanity has used up all the natural resources Earth can regenerate in one year. Earth Overshoot Day was last year on August 2. On https://www.wwf.de/earth-overshoot-day (checked today), seven tips for strategies are presented, including the recommendation to extend the life of fashion products, promote a plant-based nutrition, or reduce food waste. Other tips, such as Green Deals, expanding renewable energy, or protecting the rainforest, focus on activities at the political level. An Austrian project that fights for the responsible use of resources and against waste, and links its strategies with government initiatives, is the up-cycling design 'gabarage manufacture' with workshops and shops in Vienna...
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