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The Fashion & Textiles Collection merges art, textiles, and design beyond conventional distinctions between applied and fine arts. It thus creates connections to the other areas of the Collection and Archive and reinforces questions about the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and the fault lines and incommensurabilities in the history of art, fashion, and textiles.

The holdings have a complex functional history. They are based on a collection of costumes that were used in the nineteenth century as models for training in historicist painting at the School of Arts and Crafts of the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry. Beginning in the 1910s, the textile artist Rosalia Rothansl catalogued this teaching material collection, supplemented it with works by students, and incorporated it into her art teaching. In the 1950s, the Institute for Costume Studies under the direction of the costume designer Elli Rolf and the costume historian Annemarie Bönsch began adding numerous textiles to the holdings with the aim of documenting an ethnographic and evolutionary history of clothing. Since the incorporation of the former Costume and Fashion Collection into the Collection and Archive institute in 2004, a large part of the collective holdings consists of works by teachers, (former) students, and their labels. A new point of focus has emerged around positions produced at the point where textiles, fashion, and art intersect.

• Fred Adlmüller
• Friedrich Berzeviczy-Pallavicini
• Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
• Josef Frank
• Adele List
• Gertrud Höchsmann
• Workshop of Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska
• Franz Čižek’s children’s classes
• Objects from the collection of the artist Mileva Roller
• Works by fashion designers who work(ed) at or are associated with the University of Applied Arts since the inception: Fred Adlmüller, Marc Bohan, Henning Bohl, Veronique Branquinho, Hussein Chalayan, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Lang, Rosalia Rothansl, Margarete Rader-Soulek, Jil Sander, Raf Simons, Viktor & Rolf, Vivienne Westwood, Bernhard Willhelm and Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill
• Fabrics and clothing by artists of the Wiener Werkstätte: Camilla Birke, Emilie Flöge, Mathilde Flögl, Josef Hoffmann, Anton Hofer, Lilly Jacobsen, Hilda Schmidt-Jesser, Maria Likarz-Strauss, Reni Schaschl, Dagobert Peche, Felice Rix, Max Snischek, Vally Wieselthier, Josef Hoffmann, Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill, Koloman Moser, Ugo Zovetti
• Works by former students of the university, among them Tanja Bradaric (SAGAN Vienna), Anna-Sophie Berger, George Bezani, Christof Cremer, Astrid Deigner, Larissa Falk, Franziska Fürpass (FEMME MAISION), Ursi Fürtler, Christiane Gruber (Awareness&Consciousness), Dalia Hassan, Markus Hausleitner (House of the very Island's), Peter Holzinger (superrated & SAMSTAG), Kenneth Ize, Karin Krapfenbauer (House of the very Island's), Marc Thomas Merz, Flora Miranda, Taro Ohmae (SAGAN Vienna), Christoph Rumpf, Anna Schwarz, Constanze Schweiger, SEMI DEI
• Clothing, shoes and accessories from the 17th century to today

Location
Collection and Archive
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Collection Fashion and Textiles
Postgasse 6 / 1st floor
1010 Vienna

Contact:
Exhibitions and loans
Laura Egger-Karlegger
+43 1 71133 2846
laura.egger-karlegger@uni-ak.ac.at