On the evening of 6th June, students and graduates of the class of 2019
of the University of Applied Arts Vienna presented around 240 outfits as
part of their fashion show, for the first time in the University’s new
atrium. A brand new magazine “Arachne – An Almanac on Clothing and Culture”
was also presented along with awards and prizes. Last but not least,
Professor Hussein Chalayan who was head of the class for the last five
years, received a farewell as he will leave “Die Angewandte” at the end of
this academic year.
Dalia Hassan wins Birkhäuser Prize
Graduating student Dalia Hassan was delighted to receive the Birkhäuser
Prize amounting to 2,000 euros, which was awarded for the first time. Her
final collection “Sornaga – business casual” was strongly inspired by the
29-year-old’s family background and her queer feminist attitude.
28-year-old Louise Streissler from Vienna won not one but two prizes for
her graduation collection “This could be real”, inviting guests to a
romantic and aesthetic country life that perceives nature as a resource for
renewal: The Rondo Fashion Prize worth 3,000 euros and the Fred Adlmüller
Scholarship worth 2,500 euros.
Among the degree students’ collections, 26-year-old Ivan Iveljić
presented “The secret life of daydreams”, designs with recognizable and
everyday silhouettes and garments such as t-shirts and jackets, shorts and
trousers.
Her native Nigeria inspired 36-year-old graduate student Motunrayo
Olaogun, whose “Waterearth” collection represents her sustainable approach
to design and focuses on deconstructing existing pieces.
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Graduate collections range from thoughtful to humorous
Anna Sedlmayr’s collection “Kapitál I” was a tribute to her grandmother
with serious and gloomy, but also comforting and funny outfits made of
wearable pieces that can easily be combined with everyday basics.
Her classmate Valentine Déhan put the mostly unpaid and invisible work
of women at the centre of her feminist collection “Ouvrage de dame”. She
used the apron as a symbol, sometimes twisted or wrapped, and worn over a
catsuit or tight t-shirts.
New Zealander Georgia Ferguson, an Erasmus student who spent a year with
the fashion class of Die Angewandte, showed uniform, comfortable,
practical, durable and unisex silhouettes in her final collection “Black
sheep”.
In her graduate collection “Old fear and the private revolution of the
individualists”, 20-year-old Anna Hambira also posed the question of
genderless fashion. Her outfits were characterized by patterns and silk
prints as well as fabrics from times long gone.
The students of the younger classes also showed creative outfits that
demonstrated professional craftsmanship through experiments with designs
and materials, ranging from flashy to colourful and provocative to suitable
for everyday use.
The new experimental publication format “Arachne – An Almanc on Clothing
and Culture” provided another insight into the work of the fashion class at
Die Angewandte. It brings together unconventional fashion positions from
Vienna as well as an extraordinary visual language.
Photos: Salvatore Dragone / University of Applied Arts
Vienna