Fish and Chips the Aftermath...

Fish and Chip hauntings in Tokyo...
Hello Hello!
It's been a few months now since 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' closed it's doors for the final time. We were overjoyed that by the time we shut up shop we had successfully received just under 30,000 visitors....wowzers! We were totally overjoyed at the wonderful response the project generated and also at the fantastic media support that we have continued to receive. The project was featured in more than 100+ point of press including published, online, radio and TV coverage and still it continues to pop up including most recently Austrianfashion.net's 2010 rundown of highlights!
Our collective of featured designers and contributors continue making giant strides in the fashion stakes and the past few months have seen exciting endeavours such as some of them winning NewGen sponsorship as well as a succession of London Fashion Week shows and some great brand and celebrity collaborations!
The curators have since gone onto some exciting projects... Polona is currently working with the contemporary team at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on the upcoming Yohji Yamamoto exhibition and Emma is working on a community based art project in Taipei following a recent stint as Artist in Residence and exhibitor in Japan.
Fish and Chips keeps popping up in all sorts of spooky forms....from sightings of the catalogue in a cafe in LA, to a Buddhist monk rocking the Fish and Chips tote bag around rural Japan and recent reports say a tie dye version of the bag was seen lurking around in Sydney!
We all had a ball working on the project thanks to the fantastic team and string of wonderful partners and supporters and we hope you keep checking up for any upcoming projects!
Team Fish and Chips
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Talk by Mischa and the Final 24 hours!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
A couple of days ago 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' hosted it's final public talk as part of the accompanying programme. Founding member of the renowned creative space, SHUNT Lounge in London and lecturer of theatre and critical theory at Goldsmiths College, Mischa Twitchin, jetted into Vienna to present a talk on 'The Importance of Alternative Venues'. Mischa is also a lighting designer and visiting lecturer at the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. His previous work has included three projects based on Vienna so it was wonderful to have him in town and present an exciting talk on his experiences of working as part of a collective that inhabits an alternative platform. We were absolutely honoured to have him represent as part of 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' and hope that everyone who attended enjoyed his presentation.
Big THANK YOU to Mischa!
Also the last talk means that we are coming to the end of 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' here in Vienna. Tomorrow evening we will draw the final curtain and the project and all of it's entities will return to the UK. There is still a chance to catch the exhibition as tomorrow it will be open 10am-7pm and there is a bunch of catalogues, posters and bags remaining that need a new home, so please come along and support the project for one last time!
Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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FREE Fish and Chips Goody Bag! Tomorrow only!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
Only a few days to go! We have a special treat in store for all attendees of our final event tomorrow night, a talk from Mischa Twitchin from the UK. Everyone that comes along tomorrow will get a FREE Fish and Chips goody bag! Come grab an official bag before they are all gone! We have had reports of people rocking the bags out all over the world to from California to Berlin, London to Italy, so come get yours!
The talk starts at 6pm in the freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL in the MQ Thursday evening!
See you there!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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Our Contributor Jobot in Berlin!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
Last week the exhibition curators went up to Berlin to catch up with one of the 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' superstar contributors! Jobot has been a big supporter of the project since it's early days and offered her amazing writing talents to the accompanying publication that we produced.
Canadian born Jobot is a Berlin based journalist and music management maverick. Following 9 years working within the creative industries including fashion, music and writing in London, she relocated to Berlin where she continues to offer her eternal fountain of knowledge to emerging talent. Alongside managing a collective of up and coming artists she has contributed her musings to publications including Super Super magazine, BangBang Berlin and L'Exposure.
She is currently working with musician, Barbara Panther, an artist about to commence her upcoming tour of Germany, Russian Federation, Paris and the home of Fish and Chips, Vienna.
Jobot wrote an awesome piece on the relationship between fashion and music which is featured in our official Fish and Chips book that is available in the gallery! Check it out!
Also whilst in Berlin, there seemed to be a lot of chip orientated action....see our photos above as well as the lovely Jobot modelling her Fish and Chips, Twice Please?! bag around the streets of Berlin!
Don't forget, Fish and Chips closes on Sunday, so make sure you call in and see us and grab a copy of the catalogue and also the last chance to get your hands on one of our lovely bags!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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Presentation: 'The Importance of Alternative Venues'

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
As the project commences it's final week we have one final treat in store for you! This upcoming Thursday, 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!', will be bringing one final event to Vienna in the form of a talk by Mischa Twitchin from the UK. Mischa will be discussing the importance of alternative venues within the Arts and this presentation is a must see for any art, design and theatre enthusiast and perfect for students of all ages.

'SHUNT collective and SHUNT Lounge co-founder Mischa Twitchin talks about a special project that has revitalised the London art and design scene, that has recently come to an abrupt end. Under London Bridge station, under Victorian arches, the most experimental in theatre, dance, performance, art, fashion and design happened. Few seasons ago as one of London Fashion Week official venues it has witnessed collections by Gareth Pugh and Nathan Jenden, the space has housed a promenade performance 'Tropicana' and 'Amato Saltone' by the collective, seen Madonna filming one of her videos, Akhe leave their mark on the space and Franko B and Ron Athey's 'Visions of Excess'. As well as offering a platform for young visual artists and designers, Shunt Lounge was also a perfect place for testing ideas and an opportunity of collaboration.'

The talk is free to attend and kicks off at 6pm on Thursday 9th September at 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' Everyone is welcome!

We look forward to seeing you there and joining us for one final fling before Fish and Chips closes it's doors for the last time and waves farewell to Vienna!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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New Designer Showcase: Josephine Raffaella Magno

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
As we enter the final stretch of Fish and Chips, Twice Please?! we recently celebrated the launch of our last New Designer Showcases, by Josephine Raffaella Magno of the start-up label, MRJ. Raised in Napoli via LA and now working out of Vienna, accessories designer, Josephine, launched her debut collection of 'hands free' bags constructed out of leather and recycled materials. Last week a great crowd turned out to welcome the unveiling of the collection complete with drinks and a special speech from the designer. Looks awesome and her installation will stay with us right up until the close of 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' on September 12th. We hope you take the time to pop in and check out her work as well as catch the exhibition before it vacates Vienna.

Also a reminder to any media, buyers or potential customers, Josephine will be presenting her collection at the upcoming MQ Vienna Fashion Week at the end of September so be sure to visit her stand and learn more about her work.
Finally we would like to say a huge thank you to Josephine and her business partner, Patrick Sombati, for getting involved and showing MRJ as well as working as an essential part of the Fish and Chips team throughout the entire duration of the project! Thanks guys!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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Official launch of MRJ in the New Designer Showcase!

Photographer: Gino Spera

Greetings from Fish and Chips HQ!
We are very excited to announce that this week we shall be launching our final New Designer Showcase at 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!'.
Josephine Raffaella Magno, Director and brand designer of MRJ, who was recently one of our host designers at our children's workshops with JEF, will be taking over the temporary installation room in the gallery. The Italian-American designer, who has been based in Vienna for the past 2 years, will be presenting her debut collection of wearable, hands-free bags which are focused around human kinetics and recycling taking influence from themes including aviation apparel and Amelia Earhart.
Josephine studied Industrial Fashion Design at SUN in Aversa and has 10 years industry experience working between Italy and California for a range of both commercial and high end brands. Her previous employment has seen her working in the accessories sector with companies that deal with clients including Gucci, Prada, Christian Louboutin and Roberto Cavalli. From growing up in Naples, Italy and being surrounded by leather craft and the inner workings of her family's atelier, Josephine has progressed into building up her own brand aesthetic which works around her concept. The MRJ label has also been invited to showcase as part of MQ Vienna Fashion Week commencing next month in which she will be presenting her collection to buyers and the media.
On September 1st Josephine will be unveiling her first MRJ collection in the showcase at 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' and we invite you to come along! There will be free drinks for our visitors and the chance to see the debut of her work alongside a short speech around 6pm.
We will be kicking off the launch event at 5pm in the freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL in the MuseumsQuartier, the exhibition is free so come and join us!
See you there!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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Feature in Notion Magazine!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
It's been busy central here at Fish and Chips land....only two weeks to go and a couple of extra special events coming up and plenty going on! We currently have a 2 page feature in one of our favourite magazines, Notion, written by one of the curators, Emma. Notion is a globally distributed fashion, music and lifestyle publication and we love it! Nice feature all about 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' complete with lots of images! The glossy mag is available on the shelves at stockists internationally and of course at WHSmiths stores nationwide and many others in the UK...so go grab a copy!
Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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New Piece from Contributor Margarita Louca!

Male Bonding "Weird Feelings" (Official Video) from Margarita Louca on Vimeo.

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
We thought we would share with you one of our contributor, Margarita Louca's, brand new music video because we LOVE IT! The film 'Weird Feelings' for UK based band, Male Bonding, just went live and it looks awesome! As part of this piece, Margarita also collaborated with fellow Fish and Chips featured contributor, animator and illustrator Will Adams so great to see a bit of creative joining of forces! Enjoy the movie times and if you are a fan of Male Bonding for all of our Fish and Chips neighbours, they will be playing in Vienna in November as well as bunch of other cities on their tour!
Hats off to Margarita and her crew...video is a treat!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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New Designer Showcase: Maja Mehle!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
It's all change at 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' today! This evening we were really excited to unveil our current 'New Designer Showcase' as part of the accompanying programme. We are honoured to have brand new work on display from London based, Slovenian born designer, Maja Mehle.
Maja arrived in Vienna today to set up her installation which tells a story and features pieces from her new collection which make their debut in the gallery.
It looks awesome and we look forward to welcoming you to check it out!
Be sure to call in and come and see her work!
To read more about Maja see our earlier blog in anticipation of her arrival :
CLICK HERE!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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WE HAVE OFFICIALLY HIT 20,000 VISITORS!

Hello From Fish and Chips HQ!
Yesterday was major cause for celebration! In less than 10 weeks since the launch, 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' officially racked up 20,000 visitors yesterday! We are so happy with the awesome response that the project is having and it's great that the visitors just keep on coming! With a month to go until the close of the project, we can only hope that people continue to come and check out the exhibition! The positive feedback that the concept has generated has been overwhelming! We have continued to keep gaining press coverage and several side projects have branched out as a result of the exhibition for example new collaborations and opportunities for our contributors! We couldn't be happier! There are still a few weeks for you to catch 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?! so be sure to stop by and keep an eye out for our upcoming features which include New Designer Showcases and additional talks! There is also some exclusive merchandise still available at the exhibition which includes our official publication packed full of juicy editorials, special written features and some great images alongside our printed tote bags so get them before it's too late!
Thanks for all the support guys!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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COMING SOON! Maja Mehle

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
We are really excited about the next feature of the 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' accompanying programme. As part of our 'New Designer Showcase' platform we shall be introducing our visitors to our next participant, Maja Mehle, who will be taking over the temporary installation room in the gallery. Maja is a Slovenian designer currently living and working within the industry in the UK following her recent graduation from London’s prestigious Royal College of Art. Her work has been featured in publications such as Dazed Digital, Ponytail Magazine and Ribbed Magazine.
During her time at the college she won a number of awards and competitions and has worked with brands such as Oasis, Umbro and Thierry Mugler. Her final collection titled 'Tito and Me' is a combination of tailored and sportswear garments inspired by socialism, Balkan history, and Yugoslavian president Tito. She is combining traditional tailoring techiques and fabric such as wool and silk with sportswear shapes and details. One of the non-traditional tecniques used in her collection is digital print. Part of the garment is digitally printed with pixilation in a way darker part coming from the inside of the jacket to the outside into a lighter color. For this collection Maja created her own coat of arms, which was printed to dress and is used as a tag for this collection. Tito and me is a black and white memory of a uniformed socialistic childhood.
Maja will be taking over the showcase space as of this Friday,20th August, so be sure to pop into 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' to check out her work as it will be presented for a limited time only!

Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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Temporary Showcase! Kid's Patchwork!

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
Today we changed our rotating showcase space to present the results of our recent workshops for kid's in cooperation with European youth organisation, JEF . Stage one of our workshops included a special theme promoting AIDS awareness and highlighting the work of organisation, Designers Against AIDS.
During these workshops the children were given the opportunity to create their own individual square that they could then contribute to a special patchwork that we were constructing to then hand over to DAA. Mixed in with the kid's patches were also contributions from some of our hosting designers Scott Ramsay Kyle and Pebelle and the exhibition curators, Emma Bell and Polona Dolzan.For the upcoming week the patchwork will be displayed as part of 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?! alongside some illustrations and designs created by the kid's during the workshops. Following it's showcase in the gallery we will be shipping the piece off to the DAA head office in Belgium.
We hope that you take the chance to come and check out the patchwork and the outcome of the fun and exciting workshops here at 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!'
Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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New Designer Showcase: Maartje De Man

Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
As we mentioned last week we were very excited about our current 'New Designer Showcase' which is set up in our temporary installation room in the gallery as part of 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!'.
Maartje De Man jetted in from Holland at the weekend and set up a showcase of some of her pieces from her "Proud to be Fout" collection.
The work from the Winchester School of Art graduate is on display for only a couple more days...so be sure to catch it before it leaves!
To read more about Maartje's work and her contribution to the 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' project click HERE!!!
Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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The Budding Fashionistas!

Good Evening from Fish and Chips HQ!
The final stretch of our recent kid's workshops in partnership with JEF saw us rounding off with a live photoshoot in which our budding designers could pose wearing their finished creations for our photographer, Wolfgang Steiner. Here are some of the images which celebrate the completion of a great couple of days!
Don't forget to follow our official 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' facebook page HERE!!!! for all of the updates and photos!
Love,
Team Fish and Chips
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Kid's Workshops ROUND 2!

images: Wolfgang Steiner
Hello from Fish and Chips HQ!
We have been enjoying a fun filled week as we presented our second round of exclusive kid's workshops in cooperation with the European youth organisation, JEF.
Here at Fish and Chips we offered a series of workshops based around the theme of being a designer and what goes on behind the scenes hosted in the gallery. Our second phase of this feature was titled "Being a Designer...What a crazy job!" and gave kid's the opportunity to attend and learn new skills for a two day period.
The concept was to offer an insight into the entire process of working within fashion from designing, to making, photoshoots and styling. All of the participants were set the brief of creating their own T-shirt as well as making accessories that they would then model at a closing catwalk show and shoot. The workshops were hosted and taught by the exhibition's curators, Emma Bell and Polona Dolzan, alongside Viennese designer Petra Kraeutner of Pebelle and Italian-American designer Josephine Rafaella Magno of MRJ.
From dyeing to applique and macrame to beading the kid's were given the chance to experiment with a range of techniques and crafts in anticipation of unveiling their creations. They also branched out into making their own jewellery and accessories including finger knitted scarves, Lady Gaga style hair bows and beaded necklaces teamed with their favourite items of clothing that they brought along. Following two days of great enthusiasm and dedication the group got to receive a make-over and a 'catwalk coaching' before taking to the runway to strut their stuff and throw out some poses to the audience!
Vienna based photographer, Wolfgang Steiner, offered his amazing skills and gave the children a chance to see a photographer at work as well as pose on the catwalk and participate in a live photoshoot.
Big thank you to JEF for supporting us and being part of creating a great experience for the attendees and also to the guys who worked alongside the team; Valentina, Chiara, Melanie and Patrick.
Check out some pictures of the catwalk finale from Wolfgang Steiner as well as a few of our behind the scenes action shots!


And now time for the catwalk!


Finally thank you to our wonderful participants who proved to be a great bunch of aspiring designers, it was an honour to have you guys as part of the project!

You can find the full set of images in our albums on the official 'Fish and Chips, Twice Please?!' Facebook page HERE!!!
Love
Team Fish and Chips
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