Traces
Fashion itself is a persistently elusive trace of time. Fashion has got no presence. Barely having taken shape, a new phenomenon is already thrown back into its own past, its trace obliterated by a new wave of "tendencies". [...]

Two Sleeves & One Collar
Couturiers have used the man's suit as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for women's fashion since the end of the 19th century. Female fashion has thus completely absorbed all the components of the male wardrobe so that nowadays [...]

Dandyism and Fashion
Martina Nowak (Melange magazine) speaking with the designer Lena Kvadrat about her collection Dandyism [...]

Prototypes
The 20th century was a kind of demarcation line in the history of fashion, the search for an ideal and for prototypes of future shapes [...]

un/folding the fold
Texts for the catwalk-performance of the same name at the Museum of applied / contemporary Art Vienna [...]

Uniform
For the signs of recurrence to become legible to members of different communities, they have to be injected in social consciousness over a certain period [...]

Dandyism
Make an impression, then leave. Show no sign of rigidity in conduct, manners and speech. Dress elegantly, but [...]

Still life, nature motionless
Is it still possible for us to understand our urban, (post)industrial culture using these notions to describe mankind's state of mind? [...]

The fly as symbol of the ephemeral
Deprived of its original meaning as a genre in painting and largely having fallen into obscurity, the still life has come back to life in commercial photography as a kind of support for mass culture in the 20th century [...]

Crisis of the Body
Clothing as a memory of different periods in one's life which are characterized by a certain understanding of fashion, memories of other people and situations tied to a certain piece of clothing in our wardrobe [...]