Austrian Designers

[_Astrid_]

And a bit of fashion history ...

[font=Arial,Helvetica]Rudi Gernreich, Vienna-born, emigrated to the US in 1938, is one of the most influential fashion designers of the twentieth century.
[/font] Best known as the creator of the topless bathing suit, "monokini", and "unisex" fashion.

 

[droogist]

Thank you Astrid for all the pics, and Spacemiu for starting this thread. While I do see a lot of talent here, I'm a bit put off by the homogeny of a lot of the younger designers' work...looks to me like most of them could have interned with Bernhard Willhelm. Anna Aichinger looks promising though (well, you can't see much of the clothing, but what gorgeous photographs...).

 

[Estella*]

thanks for all the pictures, again! i'm in bavaria (munich), astrid.
we have a whole thread dedicated to gernreich, by the way.

 

[LizMaus]

I can't believe noone's mentioned Thomas Kirchgrabner yet. his label's called med.u5a:

his latest collection:

http://www.conny.at/pics/187828.JPG

I'll post more of him later on

 

[Lena]

it totally escaped me that Rudi was Austrian.. thanks for the pics _astrid_

 

[Spacemiu]

it totally escaped me that Rudi was Austrian.. thanks for the pics _astrid_

he was born there, but I think he moved to America ( Los Angeles) when he was very young

 

[softgrey]

this is a great thread...
thanks for all the additional pics and info astrid...
you're doing a great job of 'representing' your country...

 

[LizMaus]

Mel Merio:

 

[LizMaus]

Christoph Koller:

 

[*JJ*]

wow, i didn't know half of these designers and i am austrian. great thread!

 

[LizMaus]

more from Thomas Kirchgrabner:

 

[jhaime]

anymore info on Thomas Kirchgrabner...official site? articles...images and so on..

cheers.

 

[LizMaus]

he hasn't got a hp....but if you're interested in his work, or would like to ask him some questions, pm me, ok?

oh, btw....this is what he looks like:

 

[jhaime]

Thankyou very much Liz...you may be hearing from me soon.

 

[Halcyon]

Does anyone know when Viennese fashion week is? Does it still exist?

 

[Halcyon]

Sorry about my last question I didn't realize the answer was on the last page oops.
I hope to see some of you there!

 

[zamb]

there is nothing here that i find new,different or at the lest bit interesting. these look verey trashy as if they were done some years ago at the hieght of versace vulgar period in fashion.the best designers are those who have the innate ability to capture the spirit of the moment in thier work or those who are ahead of thier time.the best designers from vienna are mssrs lang and gernriech. right now thier are two moods running through fashion. and both of them are sophisticated and elegant it may be the dark sobriety that is championed by marc jacobs tisci, kawakubo, or even theyskens or it may be the streetwise elegance a la pilati, ghesquire,or even a relatively unknown as andrew gn

 

[LizMaus]

fashionshow: med.u5a by thomas kirchgrabner:

 

[jhaime]

it's interesting stuff thomas kirchgrabner does, some of it is very wearable..

 

[Street_a_Licious]

Wow, Thomas Kirchgrabner is really cool... his stuff looks not bad at all! I've known Elfenkleid, but haven't seen their latest stuff.

And really, most of the stuff from the beginning looks very avantgardistic... not too wearable.