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CRAFTING FASHION FOR POSSIBLE FUTURES
An exhibition by the Austrian Fashion Association at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
With the exhibition Crafting Fashion for Possible Futures, curated by Camille Boyer and Miriam Kathrein for the Austrian Fashion Association, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of contemporary Austrian fashion design and shows that design holds the potential for change and possible, better futures.
The exhibition focuses on the working methods of professional fashion design practitioners who are concerned with their responsibility in the socio-political, socio-cultural, and socio-economic realm. Their respective fashion design practices explore and investigate fields of identity politics, activism, sustainability, or the interdependency of traditional production processes and new technologies.
With Alessandro Santi, amaaena, Dead White Men’s Clothes, Flora Miranda, House of the Very, Hvala Ilija, Julia Koerner, Kids of the Diaspora, Larissa Falk, Matthias Winkler, Mühlbauer, Published By, rudolf, Susanne Bisovsky.
Crafting Fashion for Possible Futures
June 24. - September 8., 2022
Opening: June 23, 2022, 7 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022
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MATCH!
An Angewandte exhibition at AFA Offspace
The exhibition MATCH! is a collaborative project between the Department of Applied Photography and the Fashion Department of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing on the interdependency of the two fields.
Glitching the idea of glamour and breaking conventional ways of behaving in fashion, the shown works depict garments in multiple ways: glorified, neglected, staged, distorted and rough-handled, they transform into creatures/ beeings/ entities/ bodies, developing their own language translated through photography.
The following collaboration projects will be presented:
Luca Celine Müller and Fritz Enzo Kargl with Yuliya Glasun
Magdalena Chan with Alisa Tegin
Dalmonia Rognean and Roozbeh Gholami with Marily Elmezoglou
Marie Haefner and Lydia Knöbl with Julia Nagl
Marie Luise Baumschlager with Pouran Parvizi
Hana Bei, Marija Dondović, Aaron Gaab and Oskar Ott with Jun Takeuchi
Rea Von Der Liszt, Elif Gündüz and Pia Heer with Oliver Kuzma
MATCH! was initiated by Maria Ziegelböck, Monica Titton and Yasmina Haddad in 2021.
June 21. - July 1., 2022
Mon - Thu, 10 am - 4 pm
Opening: June 21. 2022, 6 pm
Closing Night: July 1., 2022, 6 pm
AFA Offspace
Lindengasse 27/1
1070 Vienna
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SUPPORT UKRAINE:
AFA connects fashion scenes
Promoting and supporting the networking between designers, business, culture and creative people is one of the main focuses of the Austrian Fashion Association.
In this spirit, we now hope to offer space to Ukrainian fashion designers and other creatives working in the field of fashion, to make their stories heard and connect with the Austrian fashion industry via our channels.
The Austrian Fashion Association also acts as a matchmaker between Austrian and Ukrainian creative people in the fashion sector and would like to bring together Ukrainians who are looking for a job or freelance work in Austria with people/companies here that offer jobs in the respective areas.
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Individuals who want to address the AFA community may e-mail press@afa.co.at and include who they are, where they are currently located, images or videos of their work/themselves (with credits) and what would really help them/their label right now.
If you have job offers in the field of fashion design, styling, photography, hair & make-up etc., please send your information to press@afa.co.at!
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Diana Onatskaya is a stylist and art director. She comes from Kyiv and describes her recent experiences like this:
"When the war started, I woke up to the blatant noises at home and the first thing I did was to call all my relatives and friends to find out how and where they were. My relatives also live in Kyiv, so we all decided to quickly to gather and make our way to the west of Ukraine. We decided that I had to go abroad, my relatives stayed behind. I flew to Milan because it is one of the most important cities in my line of business. The first month was the most difficult one, I decided to fly to Tbilisi, Georgia and realize two projects there. Now I'm going back to Milan to live in this city and further develop my career."
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oWow! is a sustainable sportswear label from the southern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. All collection pieces are made from recycled PET bottles.
After the outbreak of war, oWow! completely stopped its production, but quickly started working again to provide the Ukrainian army with warm clothing. In the meantime, the team around founder Mira Cherniavska has started selling sportswear again and is grateful for every order.
oWow! is looking for partners in Austria and would like to cooperate with Austrian labels and stores
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Lesia Kvitka is a Ukrainian fashion producer and communications specialist who had to flee her home country with her 10-year-old son because of the war and now lives in Vienna. She is looking for opportunities to work and be creative in Europe, help the fashion community and support her family. Lesia is grateful for new contacts and job offers.
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Accessories label Nebo v Kvitah was founded in 2015 by friends Ira and Lily, who have been present on Ukrainian and international markets with their hair wreaths. They wrote us this:
"There are six amazing girls in our team, some of whom unfortunately had to leave their homes because of the terrible war and move to western Ukraine and Europe to take their children to safety. Now we are all far apart, but we were able to organize our label in such a way that we can continue to work, because our salary is the only possible income for some of our girls.
It is important for us to support each other during these dark months and show the world that we are a strong and kind nation. That, despite this difficult time, we are doing everything possible and impossible to continue creating jewellery, continue to adorn women, so that even now they do not forget that they are beautiful and that life goes on."
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Fashion designer Viktoriya Panyukova founded her own label CYAN in 2013 and over the years has also worked as a senior designer and production manager for other Ukrainian fashion labels such as Udana, From Sea Foam Vintage and Freedom Fashion Lab. In addition, Viktoriya has extensive experience as a stylist. She wrote and this:
"I was forced to leave my country and my job. I can no longer work in Ukraine as my production and distribution centers are in Mykolayiv, the city on the front line of the struggle. I had to worry about the safety of my 7- year-old son and flee to Europe. I am currently in Vienna and open to job offers and cooperation.
I am very grateful for your strong support of Ukraine, you know how important it is now."
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