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    International get-together, organized by Fashions & Styles,  Institute for Education in the Arts. [what]re/vision fashion_feminist pleasure and radical knowledge is dedicated to a multi-perspective approach of critical fashion knowledge that interrelates and connects theory and practice. it will deepen the scope of “intellectual activism and critical art and design projects team[ing] up to decolonize, politicize…

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    In cooperation with Archiv der Jugendkulturen Berlin, the workshop “Fashion and Right-Wing Extremism“ presented and discussed initial research results from the research project “Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style” (FWF/Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna). Through different perspectives of experts from the fields of social media research, fashion, activism, cultural anthropology and archiving…

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    At the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” we gave a short introduction to the project and presented our first research results. Visitors also had the chance to listen into “Style Struggles”, our freshly produced podcast series. May 24, 20245.00 pm Academy of Fine Arts ViennaSchillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna University library 1st floor

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    Annamari Vänskä In recent years, multiple local and global fashion brands have been called out for cultural appropriation, racism, misogyny, and even flirting with fascism. All publicity is good publicity? Perhaps not. In her lecture Annamari Vänskä introduces major examples from her latest book Understanding Fashion Scandals (Bloomsbury 2024) that explores this changing landscape of contemporary fashion…

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    Ciani-Sophia Höder Lecture by Ciani-Sophia Hoeder organized by the studio for Fashion and Styles at the Institute for Education in the Arts. With the launch of RosaMag, a digital magazine for Black FLINTA*, Ciani-Sophia Hoeder created a virtual space that unites Blackness and Germanness. This alternative enclave offers a counter-project to the prevailing norms of beauty…

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    Kimberly Jenkins In her guest lecture, Kimberly M. Jenkins will share her proposed framework for situating race in fashion studies, discuss what the process of running The Fashion and Race Database platforms looks like today, and share the joys and hardships of examining ‘fashion and race’ publicly.  The lecture will be held in English. Very little in…