Δ WELTKULTUREN LIMITED EDITION

"Collection of the Collection"
Presentation of new lipstick edition by uslu airlines (Berlin)

TRADING STYLE and the Weltkulturen Museum take off to colourful sky-high altitudes with uslu airlines.

What might an “airline” that creates nail polish have to do with jewellery from Bolivia? For the “Collection of the Collection”, such a combination is not surprising at all. It yields an impressive new product that is wearable, touchable and kissable.

As a source of inspiration, uslu airlines chose a lip plug from the Guarani in Bolivia from the exhibition TRADING STYLE. We know that such lip jewellery was worn during public occasions by male speakers. The piece is made out of tin with a mosaic of glowing blue glass beads.

“We were immediately inspired by these shades and tried to link them to beauty products. So based on the lip plug, we created two powerful statement lipsticks, sky blue and tin grey. A blue or grey colour splash on the lips, definitely eye catching!  So - it's up to you, blue or tin grey, give it a try and let the inspiration flow.”

All uslu airlines products are named after airport codes around the world. The blue lipstick goes by VLM (Villamontes) and the tin grey is called BYC (Yacuiba). Both of the airports are located in Bolivia where the piece was found.

With an introduction to the art of speech of the Guarani by Dr. Mona Suhbier (Research Curator Americas, Weltkulturen Museum).

Uslu airlines is a luxury cosmetics company started in New York, now based in Berlin, which specialises in hi-end beauty products, lipsticks, concealers, airbrush makeup, nail polishes and fashion accessories.
Collaboration is a significant element of the uslu airlines Universe. The list is long, starting with different Djs,  designer Bernhard Willhelm, street artist Superblast, Mykita sunglasses, megabrand Nike and even hotels, such as the Ace in New York or Costes in Paris. Uslu airlines loves to break rules and set new ones. A Dj wants a crazy colour nail polish? Done! If someone says “you cannot do a blue lipstick” we immediately prove them wrong.

“We are very proud of our recent partnership with the infamous Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt. It's super exciting to combine both our aesthetics with a piece selected from the TRADING STYLE exhibition.”

In German.
€3 / reduced €1.50 incl. refreshments.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ "Zwillich Metamorphosis"

Designer Nina Hollein presents her collections‚ in which traditional tea-cloth textiles are re-cast within an independent fashion scene.

For centuries, this textile might have been described as a household commodity used on a daily basis, yet generally ignored: simply patterned linen for tea-cloths and towels, table-cloths and bed linen. For designer Nina Hollein, it has been a source of inspiration for her own women’s and children’s fashion label.

Nina Hollein, who is actually a qualified architect, has been working with these classic fabrics since 2009 and her unusual designs have raised the status of these traditional tea-cloth checks. The history of these textiles has proved to be a huge source of inspiration. This graphic cosmos finds its origins in the patterns and sample books of master weavers of a former thriving weaving centre in Austria.

The clothing produced by Nina Hollein cannot be categorised as “ethno” or “avant-garde”. It is contemporary fashion, individual and wearable, independent and authentic, which uses natural materials processed under sustainable conditions. Hollein’s designs are worn by customers in London, Paris, New York and Haslach in the Mühlviertel.

In German.
€3 / reduced €1.50 incl. refreshments.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ WELTKULTUREN OPEN LAB

Launch of the new interactive platform

The Open Lab is online from 17th June! This new interactive platform offers world-wide access to the collection, global networking, community features, and a virtual laboratory for interdisciplinary and collaborative production. As expansion of the research activities of the museum, the new interactive platform was developed by Cocomore AG and Weltkulturen Museum. Sign up at www.weltkulturen-openlab.com

More information can be found on this website under Open Lab.

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Δ "Hair Politics in Ghana"

Talk by Sandrine Micossé-Aikins (Berlin)

African hairstyles are bearers of complex social, historical and political significance, and therefore a unique medium. They can contain codes referring to the gender, class, profession or age of their wearer.

Currently, styles are becoming established, not just in Ghana, that are based on western European concepts of beauty. For their part, these concepts are rooted in the norm of whiteness dominant since the colonial era. Nevertheless, hairstyles that affirm African hair structures and hair aesthetics are increasingly finding their way into the mainstream of fashion. Yet these are often stigmatised, excluded from the realm of what is considered “normal” or “contemporary”, and even penalized in everyday life in Africa.

Who “invents” hairstyles? How do western trends become appropriated and hybridised? What discourses are ongoing in Ghana about image and hair politics– and how do these influence the everyday practice of hair stylists? What spaces are women freeing up for themselves and how do they empower themselves within restrictive structures that stigmatise natural African hair? Which new ideals of beauty and new aesthetics are emerging from the clash between an alienation from and a rapprochement with one’s own body?

In her lecture Sandrine Micossé-Aikins discusses the links between Eurocentric norms of beauty, Ghanaian hair practices and the self-conception of Black women.

In German.
€3 / reduced €1.50 incl. refreshments.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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