The
goal of the Fashion Department at Angewandte is the individual growth and development of each student’s artistic and creative
potential. The fashion education at Angewandte takes into account contemporary and future social, cultural and economic conditions
that shape the constantly changing fashion industry.
The Central Artistic Subject focuses on generating ideas,
developing concepts and creating and presenting individual, innovative and visionary women’s and/or men’s wear collections
at the highest artisanal and technical level. The curriculum further comprises courses in pattern making, draping, sewing,
knitting and dressmaking techniques and contains courses in fashion drawing, technical drawing for fashion, fashion communication
and fashion business. Within a range of lectures, seminars and courses, students acquire the skills of the design process
and learn about historical and contemporary fashion, and explore the fashion system and its contexts. The Fashion Department
initiates and fosters co-operations with partners from the fashion industry throughout the curriculum.
The unique
curriculum at the Fashion Department is not only distinguished by its individual education but also by its changing professorship
at the head of the Department that gives students the opportunity to get to know different established positions within the
fashion system. Previous designers who taught at Modeklasse were, among others, Karl Lagerfeld, Jil Sander, Vivienne Westwood,
Helmut Lang, Raf Simons, and Hussein Chalayan. Luke and Lucie Meier (creative directors of Jil Sander) are currently heads
of Modeklasse.
Graduates of the Fashion Department have founded their own flourishing labels such as, among others,
Bless, House of the very island’s, Petar Petrov, Ute Ploier, Sagan Vienna or Wendy&Jim. They also occupy leading positions
in the national and international fashion trade, working for renowned houses such as among others Balenciaga, Andreas Kronthaler
for Vivienne Westwood, Jil Sander, Lanvin, Prada or Maison Margiela. Thanks to the continually high quality of the training
it offers and its many successful graduates, the Fashion Department is one of the most important fashion education institutions
worldwide.
The next possible start to study fashion at the Fashion Department is winter term
2020/21 (starts 1st of October 2020).
Fashion ShowsEach June, the Fashion Department organizes
one of Austria’s most talked-about and widely covered fashion shows, the Show Angewandte. Numerous prizes awarded at the show
testify to the notable artistic level of our students whose work is judged by an international jury of experts that also help
them to build networks.
