Madame FACTION at the Leopold Museum Dive into the glamour of Vienna’s past! I will guide you through the Leopold Museum or the MAK and show you the gems fin-de-siècle Vienna. …
Karl & Coco. How LAGERFELD shaped CHANEL
When the trendy designer Karl Lagerfeld took over CHANEL in 1983, the brand was everything but trendy: Gabrielle Chanel had died in 1971 and the six (!) fashion designers, who …
Fashion Talk: Karl LAGERFELD & A LINE OF BEAUTY at the MET Museum
A new Fashion Talk is here: @lizsteiger from PELAGONA & THE PINK LOOKBOOK and I are focusing on no other than the notorious Karl Lagerfeld and the grand exhibition, that …
INSPIRED by SCHIAPARELLI. Your surreal fashion DIY
If I had to name ONE fashion style, that would represent the most desired fashion history chapter nowadays, it would be Surrealistic fashion. But appreciating surrealistic fashion is one thing, …
How I created my VINTAGE GLAM HOME. Or: If Chanel, Dietrich & Loos shared a flat
Watch this article on YouTube You know that my mission is to live a Vintage Glam life full of iconic Fashion & Avantgarde Art. But let me tell you: Living …
FACTION talks: MET GALA 2023
This is a premiere on & for Madame FACTION: I have teamed up with designer & author Liz Steiger from THE PINK LOOKBOOK & PELAGONA to review the Met Gala …
All that GLITTERS is GOLD. Yves Saint Laurent’s gold exhibition
All that glitters was Yves Saint Laurent’s obsession: From buttons and jewelry to dresses and coats – GOLD was the ingredient to the unique glamour of his designs. The Musée …
MORE is MORE. The 80s design exhibition at the MAD Paris
Back in 1980 the saying “more is more” was to be uplifted to new heights: Vibrant colors, extreme shapes, an unseen body cult and design eclecticism were to become the …
Schiaparelli by Roseberry. A visual feast
As you have seen with my last article on Elsa Schiaparelli, the Italian couturiere caused a stir more than once with her Surrealist Couture during the interwar period. But after …
Elsa Schiaparelli. When Surrealism became Couture
Famous COUTURIERE, surrealist ARTIST and Chanel’s fiercest ENEMY: Elsa Schiaparelli fulfilled her many roles – effortlessly as it seems. Today she might not be a huge name like Dior or …