- Oct 3, 2023
- 2 min read

Akris Spring 2024 Fashion Show celebrates art, women and creative freedom

The century old brand celebrates art works of Austrian artist from the period when Akris itself was established. Driven by integrity, passion, and great appreciation for avant-garde artist Akris Spring 2024 is presented to the backdrop of live music and a mountain of red poppies.

By Nermin A.

Akris show is staged in the sunbather Pavillion Gabriel to a live music performance on top of a red mountain made of hundreds of paper poppy flowers. Albert Kriemler invites guests to discover the universe of Austrian avantgarde artist Felice (Lizzi) Rix-Ueno, of the Wiener Werkstätte period, who moved to work and spend the rest of her life in Japan.

It is this aesthetic that the spring 2024 collection embodies, aptly presented ahead of the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the collection's muse, titled "Stars, Feathers, Tassels: The Wiener Werkstätte Artist Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967)" on November 21, 2023, at the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, which Akris also sponsors.

Akris Spring 2024 Fashion Show. All images courtesy of Akris.

The front row was also occupied with contemporary artists and strong women. Coco Rocha and Devon Windsor were seated together. International guests like Heart Evangelista and Micaela Wittman mingled with Emma Brooks, Mary Leest and many other at the refreshments served after the show. It is no wonder that such an artist could inspire a broad cross-section of the collection; not only has Felice Rix-Ueno established herself as one of the most remarkable artists of the WW with her highly poetic, independent style, but in her second home, Japan, she also succeeded as a university professor and founder of her own designer institute.

all images © The collection is still very precise, with clean, minimal lines in lightweight, high-quality materials for what Akris is renown, featuring a lot of silk organza, even for well-tailored suits. Akris lets loose for the eveningwear with creative cuts and silk fringes featured on floor-length dresses in a final hommage to Rix-Ueno’s morale and concept of “Fantasie” [Fantasy], as she would say.