Andreas Kronthaler (fashion designer)

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Andreas Kronthaler (born January 26, 1966 in Fügen (Zillertal) , Tyrol ) is an Austrian fashion designer . Together with his wife and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood , he designs “unconventional” fashion collections. He has been showing his own collections since the early 1990s under the name Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood and from 2016 under the fashion brand of the same name (formerly: Vivienne Westwood Gold Label ).

Life

Kronthaler is a son of the blacksmith Franz Kronthaler and his wife Maria-Mara, who worked as an antique dealer. His brother Martin later became a farmer in a joint venture in Reith im Alpbachtal . Kronthaler's second brother, brother Thomas, was a master blacksmith and locksmith and died unexpectedly in 1999. At the age of 14 he went to boarding school in Graz, graduated from high school and then trained as a goldsmith at the Graz School of Applied Arts . During his apprenticeship, he experimented with various media such as making sculptures, installations and sewing textiles. To finance his education, he designed clothes and sold them to local fashion stores.

After graduating, he enrolled in the industrial design course at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and studied with Carl Auböck . He also financed his studies through fashion designs. Kronthaler lost interest in product design and interrupted his studies with temporary work. In addition, he began to change clothes for friends and to sew. He was very careful how the clothes were put together. He has this thoroughness in common with Westwood, who also separated the seams of the respective clothing at the beginning of her tailoring in order to find out the cut. In 1988 he applied for the entrance examination for the fashion design course and was accepted.

In 1989 Kronthaler met Vivienne Westwood. She had accepted a teaching position at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Kronthaler began studying fashion in the same semester. After an introduction to Westwood's fashion history, Kronthaler created his first fashion collection, inspired by the Renaissance . Westwood was enthusiastic about his talent and the collection and invited him to their studio in Battersea, London . In 1989 Kronthaler moved to London as Westwood's assistant. She worked on the so-called Sun Wheel dresses, which later became part of her collection. After a few months they became lovers and he moved from the studio to Vivienne Westwood.

In 1992 Kronthaler and Westwood married. She says of her husband that he is "the most talented person I have ever met." Together, the couple support many initiatives in the areas of environmental protection, peace and human rights. You visit Austria every year to go on vacation, for fashion projects etc. a. with the traditional costume manufacturer Tostmann and for inspiration. In 2010 they both received the Emilie Flöge Prize from Gexi Tostmann   as “Ambassadors of traditional costume”.

Fashion collections (selection)

  • 1993: Fall 1993 Ready-To-Wear
  • 1994: Fall 1994 Ready-To-Wear
  • 1995: Fall 1995 Ready-To-Wear
  • 2006: Spring 2006 Ready-To-Wear
  • 2007: Spring 2007 Ready-To-Wear
  • 2019: Spring 2019 Ready-to-Wear

Movies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susannah Frankel: Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler: Clothes for Heroes. In: AnOther Magazine , September 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Andreas Lettmayer: Joining. In: winterfocus.com , 2010.
  3. ↑ Grit Thönnern: Everything - except conventional. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 8, 2016.
  4. ^ A b Laird Borrelli-Persson: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , March 17, 1993, (English), with photo gallery.
  5. ↑ a b c Elisabeth Gamperl: Mode & Liebe. Oh Vivienne! In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2018.
  6. ^ Obituary notice: Franz Kronthaler. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung , May 4, 2016.
  7. ^ Obituary notice: Maria-Mara Kronthaler. In: trauerhilfe.at , accessed on April 6, 2019.
  8. ^ Christian Moser: Vivienne Westwood at the cattle drive from BG Kronthaler. In: Agrarheute , October 8, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Cordula Reyer : Westwood's husband declares unusual love. In: Die Welt , June 24, 2010, interview with Kronthaler.
  10. ^ Obituary notice: Thomas Kronthaler. In: schwemberger.at , accessed on April 6, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b Andreas Kronthaler - Fashion Designer. In: Show Studio , February 10, 2014, (English).
  12. ^ Gertrud Lehnert: History of fashion in the 20th century. ( Memento of July 1, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0513-X , (excerpt).
  13. ↑ “From 1989 Vivienne had taught three days a month at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Her Parisian friend Jean-Charles de Castelbajac recommended her for the position to replace him. ”In: Vivienne Westwood & Ian Kelly, Vivienne Westwood , Eichborn, Cologne, 575 pp., 2014, ISBN 978-3-8479- 0571-4 , quoted on p. 461.
  14. ^ Andreas Kronthaler. In: Fashion Elite / Show Studio , September 20, 2016, (English), with photo series.
  15. ↑ Vivienne Westwood, & Ian Kelly, Vivienne Westwood , Eichborn, Köln, 575 pp., 2014, ISBN 978-3-8479-0571-4 , reference on p. 474.
  16. ↑ Sven Michaelsen: Andreas Kronthaler: "How wrongly picked out of the closet". In: Gala , May 17, 2014, interview with Kronthaler.
  17. ↑ Charlotte Gush: Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood play Adam and Eva in a new short film for environmental protection. In: iD Magazine - Vice , December 16, 2015.
  18. ↑ a b Christina Lechner: Vivienne Westwood & Tostmann: Pariser aufdirndln. Vivienne Westwood and the traditional costume manufacturer Tostmann are working together and are making a statement against fast fashion. In: Die Presse , October 25, 2017.
  19. ↑ Christine Imlinger: Mode and Punk: With Westwood on the Alm. In: Die Presse , September 2, 2015.
  20. ↑ Emilie Flöge Prize. In: tostmann.at , accessed on April 5, 2019.
  21. ^ Laird Borrelli-Persson: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , March 7, 1994, (English), with photo gallery.
  22. ^ Laird Borrelli-Persson: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , March 19, 1995, (English), with photo gallery.
  23. ^ Nicole Phelps: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , October 4, 2005, with a photo gallery.
  24. ^ Nicole Phelps: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , October 3, 2006, with a photo gallery.
  25. ^ Luke Leitch: Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. In: Vogue , September 29, 2018, (English), with photo gallery.
personal data
SURNAME Kronthaler, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuegen (Zillertal) , Tyrol , Austria