Saturday, 19.10.2024, 10:00 to 18:00 Nina Hollein: Homecoming

Her first museum exhibition shows the range of Hollein's designs - from her first dresses made from tea towel linen to costumes made from recycled suits to delicate or sculpturally sweeping evening dresses, as well as her latest block-coloured silk dresses.

For the New York-based Austrian fashion designer Nina Hollein, her solo exhibition at the Schlossmuseum is also a return to a place of her youth. 

The architect switched to fashion and founded the self-taught fashion label NINAHOLLEIN. Her starting point is traditional linen and utility fabrics from weaving mills in her native Upper Austria, which she transforms into extravagant garments with strict, geometric cuts. However, the designer also uses leftover fabrics and offcuts, integrating the recycling of vintage men's suits, tulle fabrics, latex or plastic into her collections. Her versatile, often changeable creations result in extraordinary pieces between everyday wear and experimental haute couture.

Situated between wearable fashion and art, Hollein's work is characterised by an architectural way of thinking about clothing as an envelope between skin and space, transparency, volume, movement and colour. The focus is on conceptual approaches, formal investigations, but also the transformability of garments, the use of contradictory or unusual materials, the object-like nature and ambivalence of individual pieces, as well as new approaches to sustainability.