It is time to have a closer look at the music festivals that will take place in 2011 in Austria again, and, surprisingly there are more festivals as we thought. Pretty complicated to list all of them, we would end up with an article that might takes days to read. Hence we decided to list the most interesting and largest ones, and also try to answer our question if music does set the tone in Austria in summer 2011. The

From May 11th until May 15th 2011 the Lake´s Fashion Days will take place in Pörtschach, Carinthia, Austria. Lake´s – my lake hotel & spa, opened in 2010, will organize a unique fashion show at the breathtaking lake Wörthersee. 4 DAYS PACKED WITH FASHION FROM AUSTRIA, GERMANY, ITALY AND SLOVENIA More than 30 designers from the area around the Alps and the Danube – Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia – will present their fashion during 4 days. The collections shown

- Who are you? My name is Claudia Rosa Lukas, I am the co-founder and the main force behind the online presence of AUSTRIANFASHION.net. – What do you like about what you do? Thinking of simple ideas and making them big. – What don’t you like about what you do? Seeing simple ideas get complicated. – Please tell us about AUSTRIANFASHION.NET and your goals. Initiated by a group of independent fashion designers, AUSTRIANFASHION.NET was launched in September 07 as a

The new initiative in 2010 from www.bloegger.at does get the diversity of Austrian-based bloggers in front of the camera. The reason for this new initiative is pretty simple, many things have happened since the word ‘blog’ came up, many people have discovered the pros and contras of a blog and started their own blog. In Austria yet a blog is still unknown, automatic blog databases do not often feature blogs based in Austria. ‘Bloegger’ decided to change that by interviewing

Look at every 1st row at a fashion show and what do you see? Stars, fashion journalists, fashion purchasers. Yet the internet is about to change, no revolutionize this industry. Fashion never was that close to the individual consumer as today, where tools like laptop, mobile applications or iPad give ‘fashionistas’ the opportunity to immediately distribute text, images and fashion movies throughout the web. Online auctions, movies on Youtube, images on flickr, trading via eBay, online shops, a booming part

1. Who are you? A real Styrian who’s living in Vienna and doing the job I’ve ever been dreaming of … 2. What do you like about what you do? I’m free to write about the most amazing things of life. 3. What don’t you like about what you do? Beauty as such – can hurt sometimes … 4. Please tell us about your brand “Adi Weiss” and your aims. Adi Weiss has his own Shirt-Collection and his own blog:

Large events in key hub cities around the globe and in holiday destinations have already become a ‘must’ for the international gay & lesbian community, take the ‘Pride Festivals’ in cities like Amsterdam, Stockholm, Bangkok, Moscow, Madrid, the Christopher Street Day in Hamburg, Wigstock in NYC, the well known ‘Smashing Valentine’ a tennis tournament for the scene held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the multi-cultural, gay-friendly, beach-lined Sitges Carnival Festival in Spain, the Rainbow Honolulu Film Festival or the International Gay and

A Preview for 2010 Sun, lots of music and party. Although the weather is not yet like it should be, we should have a closer look at the festival season for 2010 in Austria. And get really excited and ready to book a ticket. Some events have already been communicated and show their lineups. The ‘FM 4 Frequency Festival’ in St. Pölten is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, a reason to celebrate to the max. The organization was able

The Young Hotelier Award (YHA) is about fostering the most talented young hotelier in the 5 star luxury hotel scene in Vienna, the one that attracts attention through outstanding performance and devotion to his/her job. Contestants will be trained by industry professionals and are to present a chosen topic in written memoranda and oral argumentations to a prestigious jury, consisting of experts and leaders from Austria’s hospitality industry and economy. The winner of the contest receives a scholarship at Cornell

What are the reasons for organising a fashion event like the MQ VIENNA FASHION WEEK? Austria has a very creative designer scene. At the MQ VIENNA FASHIONWEEK the designers have the chance to show their knowledge and creativity. Buyers, designers but also fashionistas have a place to share ideas and interact. We are very pleased that we are partners with the MuseumsQuartier Vienna and the quartier21/MQ, to realize this unique project. We are sure that it will benefit our fashion