Beata Boucht for H&M
"I want people to disappear into the sometimes surrealistic world that I create," says the Swedish illustrator Beata Boucht on occasion of her work for HM's first art collection for kids. Illustrating ecological consciousness for kids...

Margit Czák
Margit Czák focuses with her textile work on the body, especially the female one and the roles of females in the society. The exhibition happens at the Viennese 'Galerie Vor Ort'. The gallery's concept is to question viewing patterns by integrating the place around...

50 ± Anni di Moda Italiana
The 'quartier21' presents Italian Haute Couture and prêt-á-porter by Emilio Pucci, Prada, Gai Mattiolo or Krizia from more than 50 years at one of Europe's largest cultural areas, the Museumsquartier in Vienna...

Have you seen my Alps?
The history of the Jews in the Central European Alpine region goes back to the expansion of the Roman Empire. During National Socialism, the field of fashion was one of the instruments to make Jewish Austrians quasi-'homeless'...

Beat Takeshi Kitano
The Japanese allround-artist transforms the Fondation Cartier in Paris into an amusement park where children and adults can interact and participate in a world made of popular culture, scientific inquiry, the beautiful and the kitsch, tradition and education...

Thomas Baumann
Question: Thomas Baumann, your 'Little and the Big Black' sculpture is standing for an idea? Two balls are silver – you can mirror yourself in them; what is black on them? What’s the idea behind the title of the sculpture?...

Xuly Bet
Fashion and music in punk-Afro style! The punk-Congolese pop music opera 'more more more... future' and dance performance with costumes by the Paris based designer and fashion recycler Xuly Bet...

Jacqueline Groag
Czech born Jacqueline Groag was an influential textile designer in Britain in the post worldwar II era. She studied textile and pattern design in Austria. During the late 20ies and early 30ies, Groag designed textiles for the 'Wiener Werkstätte' in Vienna...

Van Cleef & Arpels
When the French jewllery house Van Cleef and Arpels was founded in 1906, Japanese prints have been in fashion. The Europeans got many new ideas from the Japanese culture of colour and light, line, composition and perspective...

Fashion in the Ringstrassen era 
The Viennese Museum Karlsplatz exhibits the city’s fashion at the end of the 19th century. This fashion was named after an avenue which runs in a circle around the 'Inner City': the Ringstrasse. On this street nobles and industrial families resided in luxurious houses. Alongside, a promenade runs in front of the houses. This was the public catwalk where the newest fashion was presented...

20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads
Author Alison A. Nieder, executive editor of the fashion trade publication California Apparel News, and Taschen America editor Jim Heimann guide in the new publication through the history of fashion advertising during the 20th-century...

Miyo Yoshida
Fashion, art, music influenced by the reality-simulation of media. Miyo Yoshida (UK artist who was recently selected for the Catlin Art Prize 2010) uses in her installation 'The Void' pieces like the book 'Media Control' from Noam Chomsky, a Louis Vuitton bag, the Jack Kerouac novel 'On The Road', a football, Chanel makeup, an Apple iphone, the Sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks', etc...

Goran Despotovski
The Serbian artist Goran Despotovski presents his installation 'Showroom' during the group-exhibition 'real presence' from 21 August until 27 September 2009 at the Künstlerhaus Graz. The artist's human-figures-dollies-clothes-coats are deleted tracks back, allegories of the recent history of the Serbian society...

Good Signs - Bad Signs
"...parallels between the rhythm and repetition of songs and typical regional knitting patterns...," curator Eva Kreissl invites the visitor to experience the meaning of symbols in game situations such as a symbols quiz, an orientation terrain game, or a sound-effects test at the Folklife and Folk Art Museum in Graz...

Jeweler Skrein & Hans Staudaucher
Jeweler Skrein invited to the presentation of the new 'Rocks' concept for rings, necklaces, ear rings, bracelets on occasion of the opening of the 'Art Mile Spiegelgasse' with paintings of Hans Staudacher in the center of Vienna...

Momo for Y-3 fall 2009
Momo is known for his maps and minimalistic street art. For Y-3, the collaborative label of Yohji Yamamoto and adidas (Y stands for Yohji, 3 for the three stripes of adidias), he has used silkscreens, stencils, and paint, to put his stamp with bright colors on everything from women’s blazers to men’s trousers...

Wiebke Siem The Forger
The artist has developed for her nightmarish fantasies and impressions from her childhood a humorous story-telling technique by using clothes, wigs, toys, bags made of wood and fabrics in sceneries like in a kitchen...

Costumes at the Salzburger Festival
Interview with the Costume and Make Up Director of the Salzburger Festival, Elke Wolter. Question: Have you experienced that the costume designers at the Salzburger Festspiele are influenced by fashion?...