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 The Death of Taste: The Future of Fashion
Jun 22-23, 2007, Vienna, Austria |
THE DEATH OF TASTE: THE FUTURE OF FASHION
an international symposium
MAK Wien, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Vienna
'The Death of Taste: The Future of Fashion' questions the process of fashion-making beyond the simple allure of the catwalk and its designer clothes and accessories. In the 21st century, fashion is a global industry embracing modes of instant distribution that demand an ever-faster turn-over of styles and images linked to emerging fashion tastes. From London to Vienna, through to Russia and Turkey, stylists, forecasters, buyers, designers, post-production artists and editors mediate and manipulate the seasonal style shifts in relation to their local taste cultures. No longer can we consider fashion as a creative pursuit led by the creative genius of the lone fashion designer. Rather it is an increasingly complex cultural phenomenon involving an enormous range of cultural mediators. Fashion is both the fleeting moment of a 1980s retro-neon t-shirt and the enduring form of a bespoke suit.
Who’s steering the fashion industry anyway and where does our taste in fashion really come from? Why is yellow ‘in’ one month and out the next? And isn’t it too soon for a 1990s fashion revival?
Organised by Alison Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna), Joanne Entwistle (London College of Fashion) and Alistair O’Neill (Central St Martins London) as a London/Vienna debate The Death of Taste brings together, (in expert panel discussion) fashion industry experts, academics and designers at the cutting edge of fashion.
Speakers include Marios Schwab (New Designer of the Year 2006, UK), Penny Martin (editor in Chief of SHOWstudio.com), Christopher Breward (fashion historian and author), Elfie Semotan (fashion photographer), Klaus Mühlbauer (hat designer), Florian Ladstätter (contemporary jeweller), Gerda Buxbaum (fashion expert and author), Petar Petrov (fashion designer), Susie Coulthard (British fashion stylist), Thomas Ballhausen (Austria Film Archiv), Nick Ryan (sound designer/Hussein Chayalan shows), Myung Il Song (owner avant-garde fashion store), Nilgin Yusuf (fashion editor), Helga Schania (Wendy & Jim), Simone Springer (rosa mosa) etc.
The Death of Taste
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