Print Editions
Smile and Stay Safe With the Zero Face Mask, Made in Vienna
Designed in Austria and produced in Germany, this ingenious face mask brings back non-verbal communication in times of corona.
Fall 2020
Meet Praline Le Moult, a Parisian Fashion Designer Who Launched Her Brand in Vienna
“Beauty, like a butterfly, is fleeting. Like a spectacular sunset, it’s there for a moment – and then it’s gone.”
Art
Is Vienna a Fashion Capital? Not Yet.
Once a burgeoning capital of fashion, Vienna lost its design industry with the Jews who supported it and has struggled in the decades since. But the next chapter may be different.
People
Sisters and Business Partners
At the Viennese label Kids of the Diaspora, founders Leni Charles and Cherrellone do everything together – even motherhood – creating a space where everyone belongs.
Bars and Nightlife
Vienna Fashion Week Went Global
The special 10th-anniversary edition of the Vienna Fashion Week happened last week! From Sep 10-16 an impressive 65 local and international designers ...
General
10 Things We Love Right Now
Here are ten of our favourite products to guide your next shopping spree.
ORAL B GENIUS 9000
This ingenious toothbrush uses facial recognition tec...
Culture
Local Finds | Architecture
Whether it’s with handmade leather crafts, a hot new fashion emporium or tiny houses for everyone, this month’s local finds make it easy to express yo...
City Life
A Tale of Two Sisters
Follow big and little sister on a break-in! The destination: Artist Hannes Mlenik’s Arch in the Vienna Prater Ateliers. Once inside, the sisters con...
July/August 2018
13 Things We Love Right Now
ZWILLING MIYABI GYUTOH 5000 MCD
http://www.zwilling-messer.de/
© Zwilling
Functionality and harmonious aesthetics are combined in this ...
July/August 2018
13 Things We Love Right Now
ZWILLING MIYABI GYUTOH 5000 MCD
http://www.zwilling-messer.de/
© Zwilling
Functionality and harmonious aesthetics are combined in this ...
June 2018
Our Fave Brands at Vienna’s Indie Design Fair | In Cooperation with FESCH’MARKT
It’s easy to find treasures when FESCH’MARKT brings them all to one place.
From June 15-17, Vienna’s popular independent design fair descends on ...
June 2018
12 Things We Love Right Now
Lancaster sun-sensitive Invisible Compact Cream
douglas.com
Get your tan without harmful side effects! With an ultrahigh SPF of 50 and UVA & UVB ...
Photographer Lilya Corneli Creates Muses | Are you her Next Inspiration?
The photographer and artist Lilya Corneli and stylist Olga Schloemer launched the Project "To Be a Muse" after Corneli was inspired by Vienna's grea...
February 2018
Lost in the City
We live in a city of stories. Each time you turn a corner, you become part of the history of the place. Even if you know your home town...
Nostalgia, The Seductive Liar
We retreat into nostalgia for comfort, for the feeling of being in a time period that is better than the present.
We project meaning, romance and...
City Life
Want to add a Vintage Touch to Your Home? Check out These Local Finds!
For this issue, we chose two shops that will give your home some nostalgic air, and if you haven’t settled yet, there’s a new place called Oliver ...
Five Photographers Illustrate Italian Love
Five photographers collaborated to illustrate Italian love.
The variations in interpretation by each artist demonstrate that there is never only ...
Shopping for Jewellery and Gems in Vienna
This November, we look into baubles and embellishments, from precious gems to contemporary textile and metal hybrids
ANNA INS...
International Design Fair Blickfang
The international design fair presents creative, innovative and unique pieces for everyone
In this age of mass produced individuality, it can be ...
A Trip to LA to Change Your Point of View
Who’s to say whether the life one person chooses to lead is one you could imagine for yourself? Does that make their desire for meaning, comfo...
Karl Lagerfeld, Illusions and a Gallery at Home
This October, try to guess Karl Lagerfeld’s age, get you mind blown at the Museum of Illusions, or channel you inner art collector at Lumas Gallery
...
Fashion & Crowd Funding – Five Minutes with Juan Carlos Gordillo
After financing his first two shows at MQFW through Crowd Funding platforms, the Guatemalan-based Fashion designer Juan Carlos Gordillo is now present...
Style
Metropole’s Top 5 Young Austrian Fashion Designers
Vienna may seem the perennial underdog to the couture juggernauts Milan and Paris, but it certainly doesn’t lack in flair: countless young, exciting d...
Street Style – Daring Comfort Wear for the Urbanite
As a fashion phenomenon, street style arose at the end of the 20th century and has since developed into a billion-dollar industry that perfectly cater...
Rediscover Your City with our Local Finds for September
Whether they’re rethinking the world of retail, creating designs for kiddies or offering top-notch pampering, these insider favorites should not be mi...
City Life
Sustainable Shopping | Vienna’s Best Second-hand Shops
Live – and dress – in the past.
Often underappreciated when it comes to fashion, Vienna has found it somewhat difficult to stand out from the crowd ...
Borderless Fashion
In any given moment a corner of Vienna can transport you to other urban landscapes, revealing this city's soul and versatility.
For our travel issue ...
Unscripted Love at the Hotel Orient
Sometimes love deserves its own realm, far away from the prying eyes of the outside world. Where better to have a romantic escape than at Vienna’s leg...
May 2017
Vienna’s Best Boutiques
They go unnoticed by many and are treasured by a chosen few. Vienna’s best boutiques are on the rise and we chose a select sample to get you through M...
Style
Red Bull Art of Motion Freerunner Pamela Forster Gets her Parkour on
From the moment her feet hit the pavement, Pamela Forster took the streets of Vienna by storm.
She joins the Red Bull Art of Motion competition eve...
Style
Take Festival | So Much More than Just Fashion
If you've never made it to Take Festival before, make sure not to miss it this year!
Come experience a lively assimilation of fashion, audiovisua...
Check out how Athleisure Style Mashes up Sportswear with Business Casual
It might have started with wearing your yoga pants everywhere but what once was thought to be a fleeting trend of the 2010s is now seen as a radical s...
Behind the Scenes with our Belle de Jour at Studio Weinper
Tall, sleek, elegant – fashion models can seem cold, removed, untouchable. We imagine they live charmed lives of pampered luxury, free entry and trave...
Master of Disguise
For the “Spy Issue” we went to Vienna’s sister city of espionage, London. There we delved into the ‘60s era of fashion unnoticed and put together time...
Shopping
My Favorite Things
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
Mark Twain
Imperial day off… in Style
Emperor Franz Joseph himself opened the Imperial Hotel in 1873 and since then the hotel has hosted a potpourri of famous guests from Queen Elizabeth I...
It’s a Wonderful Life
Owning has given way to experiencing and people have started to care who makes their clothes
Back in the 1990s, it seemed to me that the only way...
Shopping
My Favorite Things in December 2016/January 2017
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (1883-1971...
Danse Macabre
The Alte Technik at Ottakringer Brauerei usually hosts raging parties, but for us it became a stage for five Viennese dancers to live out celebrations...
Shopping
My Favorite Things November 2016
Today it's a camera drone. Tomorrow it travels back in time and tries to kill Sarah Conner.
-Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory (slightly adapte...
The Stories We Wear
For 650 years, these walls have seen fashion come and go. We take a look into where today’s styles found their origins.
Creative Direction
Ali...
October 2016
Brands with a Conscience
Indulge in some ethical consumerism with our selection for this month's favorite things.
Travels, Toys, Thoughts, and Threads to Widen Your Horizons
...
Vienna Design Week and Oh That Place: Creatives with a Conscience
The design collective tackles integration with their Transmigration program
Vienna Design Week is coming quickly: if fact it starts this Friday! ...
2016 – An Urban Odyssey
Science fiction meets wearable aesthetics at Vienna’s tallest skyscraper. Futurist colors and natural fabrics combine in a marriage of utility and bea...
Back to The Future
Thoughts from our expert on design, gadgets and joie de vivre
When I think about the not-so-distant future, sure, I see food printers, hologram i...
Shopping
Everyday Life Just got Smarter
Find more time for the important things in life with a little help from our friends from the world of wearables, e-mobility, virtual reality and the i...
Style
Selling England by the Pound
A Little Britain in Millenium City
Yes, the UK voted to leave Europe and yes, it’s toe-curlingly embarrassing, but as a Brit living in Vienna, I ...
July/August 2016
On Sale: Poetry in Motion
Two expat dancers, Stephanie Cumming and Katarina Meves warm up for Impulstanz in the Painting 2.0 exhibit at Mumok
Photos: Markus Thums
Styling...
June 2016
On Sale: Wearing a Clean Conscience
Fair fashion made in Austria, finally a trend that’s sustainable
Sustainability is all the rage these days, making the long overdue transition to...
May 2016
On Sale: Light My Way
For indoors and out, Austrian companies have come up with simple solutions for our everyday needs, at home and on the move
With technology advanc...
April 2016
On Sale: Kid’s Fashion – Small but Sophisticated
Where cosmopolitan kids can get the garb they need to shine no matter where life takes them
Besides being multilingual and quick to adapt, intern...
City Life
Halls of Records | Vinyl in Vienna
With the resurgence of vinyl going global, the City of Music finds itself punching far above its weight with a thriving record store culture
As t...
November 2015
On Sale: Design Markets
Vienna has succumbed to the concept market: a compilation of fashion, design and food vendors brought together for their new, trendy or popular offeri...
In With The Old | Antique Shopping in Vienna
A new take on trash reduction, the 48er Tandler (The 48’s Scrap Dealer) is the latest innovation of Vienna’s beloved bright orange-clad MA 48
(Magis...