BEGINS 11-01-2020!

John Alexander Skelton is a recent graduate from the

prestigious MA Course at Central Saint Martins, where

his revered collection took the prize during London

Fashion week. Skelton’s work stems from an extensive

interest in the socio-political and the effect it has on

fashion and culture within specific contexts and an

obsession with the concept of class, past and

present.

His recent collections have been inspired by themes

as diverse as the cotton trade between India and

Britain in the 1930s to traditional British 19th - century

folk theatre and medieval pagan rituals. His tailoring

evokes deconstructed versions of 19th - century

menswear such as voluminous frock coats and highwaisted

trousers.

An underlying and paramount facet to John Alexander

Skelton’s work is sustainability. Using repurposed

cloth from existing clothing, utilising recycled fabrics

such as antique bed sheets and old grain sacks, often

found in markets, weaving wools from British fleece,

knitting yarn from rare breeds of British sheep and

naturally dyed and naturally finished materials. He

customises these materials through hand-dying, overwashing,

painting and patching to create garments

inspired by his research into the past, traditional

craft, heritage, politics and a step towards an entirely

autonomously made collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFz941Boz8

Song is delighted to announce a presentation

from bespoke hat makers, 

Horisaki Design & Handel.

Please come and meet the designer duo

and have a drink with us!

Tuesday 3rd December, 17h - 20h
 

30% OFF SELECTED ITEMS

19.11.19 - 2.12.19

SONG is excited to announce to arrival of the new brand Leorosa.

Leorosa was founded in 2019 by Paolina Leccese and Julian Taffel with the intention to create a renewed type of heritage brand with knitwear as the core product and the belief that quality should never be compromised. All of the pieces are made with love in Italy using Italian wool and cashmere yarns. The designers favour bold colours and classic silhouettes when designing what they consider a 'modern essential item'. While the product is inspired by traditional essentials, the always add a contemporary lens to what we design and for the aesthetic to be ageless. The goal is to make clothes that can be worn and passed down through generations.

Julian and Paolina met in 2013 while studying at Parsons School of Design in New York. Julian is Japanese-American and was born and raised in New York, where he lives. Paolina is German-Italian, born in Cologne, and currently based between Milan and Cologne. the name of the brand is a portmanteau of their middle names, Leo and Rosa.

The series entitled “Prova d’Orchestra”, painted on 33s record covers, developed during a recent journey of the artist in Palermo. 

Strolling around the typical Palermitan local markets, as a kind of propitiatory walk before work in his atelier, Bubacco casually chances upon old LPs - which are cheap there and in great abundance. He is struck by the images portrayed on them, often photographic and figurative, and often based on the clichés of the style and period in which the album was made. 

Using these images as a starting point for his research, the artist saves some fragments, using them as a linchpin to redirect the painting outcome to an imaginative improvisation, still figurative, but throwing off the balance to new improbable associations and meanings. 

Through his intervention, Bubacco succeeds in combining a variety of images from very different epochs, styles and geographical origins, creating an unexpected form of continuity, an odd allegory of the human condition. 

In the way in which different cultures find a form of rowdy harmony in the Palermitan markets and squares, this series of works becomes the development of a representational score for an improbable prova d’orchestra.

.Cause there’s Beauty in the Breakdown..

Philip Emde

(sent on 14/08/19 at 20:20)

… i visited only once Vienna before … it was February … cold very cold and I got a little bit lost … visited the narrenturm … Egon Schiele … the things he made with his hands … it was kind of morbid but although nice in a way … there was beauty behind …

Philip tells me that Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’, ca. 1817, is an important work to him. Friedrich placed in the middle of the canvas the image of a dignified man, his back turned to us, atop a cliff. Our subject gazes out at a vast and unknowable territory obscured from view by a thick, low fog. He himself is just as unknowable, as an observer we are invited to project onto him what we image ourselves to see or feel in his place - object and subject become one.

Let us set the current scene: lining the wall are works with silent, stuffed, and motionless observers. These monkeys perch in front of murky surfaces. What do we see in them?

As with us human art-goers, the stuffed chimpanzees of Emde’s imagination react differently to the works, some observing introspectively, some wistfully gazing whilst perched with a lover, some elated, some turned away in mock disgust. A kind of ‘Singerie’ springs to mind, a tradition of depicting monkeys imitating human behaviours such as playing cards or painting, which as a form of mild satire of society grew in prominence within the canvases of great Flemish and French painters of the 16th to 18th centuries.

Along one side of the room they contemplate foggy silver surfaces, somewhere between foil and mirror. Emde’s monkeys imitate the various viewings of serious art with a cheeky wink and a light nudge. Innocent toys composed in this way could evoke Narcissus finding himself in every reflection, lost in a very personal abyss. Contemplation of the self and contemplation of art can be a sticky business, and hard to pry apart.

The playfulness of Emde’s works cover territory as vast and deep as Friedrich’s fog. His tools are the company Steiff’s cheerful tokens of childhood; anyone who grew up in the German-speaking world will be familiar with these iconic animals, all branded with the emblematic ‘Knopf im Ohr’ and yellow ear tag. His large collection of used and unused Steiff animals, found predominantly on eBay, make up a wondrous overflowing studio, a cave of stuffed wonders he has dubbed EmdiLand.

It is in this studio that the tumbling colourful totem pole of stuffed friends is birthed, and children’s toys are his perfect tool. It becomes apparent whilst thinking about the works that children are in fact natural collectors. They do so before they can attribute their collections to any rhyme or reason, are inclined to collect marbles, stones, stickers, and especially lifeless companions.

In this way Emde also turns the act of collecting on its head, the collecting of stuffed animals such as Beanie Babies and other branded toys being auctioned off on the web holds a certain 90s nostalgia, of a time before such online bubbles were burst. In today’s art context the collector is the ultimate critical observer.

Questioning the lens through which we see and are moved by works as a collectible representation of the human experience, Emde breaks down the elements of artful seeing with colour and humour.

Philip Emde lives and works in Cologne and Neustadt Weinstrasse. This will be the first time his work is shown in Vienna.

DIRK VAN SAENE AW19 COLLECTION NOW AT SONG

Autumn/Winter 2019

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG

SPRING/SUMMER 2019 SALE STARTS TODAY

Stephen Venezia Spring/Summer 2019 

Now available at SONG

New Arrivals: Sara Lanzi

Spring/Summer 2019

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG
 

New Arrivals: Paul Harnden Shoemakers

Spring/Summer 2019 

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG

Up to 50% 

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

To help you fill your Christmas list
We will be open extra on Monday the 3rd, 10th and 17th of December.

New Arrivals: Paul Harnden Shoemakers

Autumn/Winter 2018-19

 NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG!
 

  Collection 009 

WHEN our minds are beset by autumn’s bluster and winter’s chills, our thoughts inexorably turn to layers. The layers of clothing with which we envelop our frames, to warm and to protect and to sculpt. And the layers of the land, the sediments laid down in the earth like a historical record by the accreted actions of ordinary men and women. This landscape is a neverending work in progress, shaped by toil, ploughed and restructured and built upon where needed. 

   We reject the unsustainable turnover of flighty fashionistas, who rework themselves in transient faddery with every passing season! Our revolution is an evolution, incremental and rugged like the very land itself! The steadfast patterns of industry and labour are our bedrock, lying beneath everything we do. The spirit of the soil imbues our palette with tones of peat and clay and slate, and permeates the very materials of our trade, the sandblasted silks, the highland wools, the waxed cottons that protect against the harsh elements. In appliquéd clusters of felted cloth, we summon up the topography of the eternal landscape and wear it on our sleeves. This is our terrain – explore it!

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG!

Autumn/Winter 2018 now available at SONG!

New hand crafted jewelry from Werkstatt München now available at SONG.

NEW ARRIVALS: KH WÜRTZ

Aage and Kasper Würtz are an internationally sought-after father and son team of studio ceramists from Denmark.  Würtz ceramics — typically made of stoneware, occasionally of porcelain — possess a leading-edge 21st century aesthetic, yet each piece is created completely by hand, using mostly ancient wheel-turning and glazing methods. All in all, the Würtz style is simultaneously contemporary in design and archaic in the crafting. It’s been described as timeless but is also future-oriented in the way it supersedes both heavily floral traditional fine china dinner sets and early 21st century minimalist white faience.

SUMMER SALE BEGINS SATURDAY 9TH OF

JUNE!

     Artist Kentaro Yamada in collaboration with perfumer Euan McCall created Neandertal Perfume. This fragrance incorporates historically and culturally significant natural raw materials. Neandertal Perfume imagines the life they could have fulfilled whilst raising questions of our own past and future. One, a darker, smokier more animalic interpretation of the concept and another brighter facet of the theme containing higher levels of lighter, delicate and fresher materials.

Now available at SONG
 

    Inspired by fashion icon Queen Elisabeth II, Song presents a modern interpretation of her 1960's wardrobe. Using vintage floral printed silk, polished cotton and discreet crystal elements, the result is an effortlessly elegant look. 
Designed by Myung-il Song and handmade in Austria.

Now available at SONG

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG

   Song Song presents: Luncheon, “Der aus dem Schrank springt”, a new work by Bernhard Hausegger (b. 1957, Graz, lives and works in Vienna).This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.The installation, created to be viewed from an outside perspective through a window glass, reveals a sculptural habitat created by the artist.Hausegger’s artistic practice is guided by a certain economy, renouncing smooth finishing.His material grade is never embellished, the steps of production remain visible and traces of previous owners are still clinging to the oftentimes recycled materials. Aside from references immanent to art, the logic of his sculptural practice aims to establish an architectural scenic quality, simultaneously providing its indwellers housing, pedestal and stage.

Duration: March 14th - April 14, 2018

Paul Harnden Shoemakers 

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

Now available at SONG

Introducing: TOOGOOD

COMMUNIQUE 008

         Sisters Faye and Erica Toogood were raised amid the furrowed fields of the English countryside. Their grandmother was a tailor who, during the War, made underwear out of parachutes.  Each garment takes inspiration from traditional workwear, transforming the idea of a uniform into a mark of individuality.
Sewn inside is an identification document, which traces its manufacture by crediting the designers and makers, with a space for the new owner's name to be added in, encouraging a sense of connection to the chain of creation.

Now available at SONG

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

NOW AVAILABLE AT SONG

Starts today!

SONG SALE starts today!

SONG is open every monday in December! 

SONG SONG Gallery presents "Ceramics" by Dirk Van Saene

 New Arrivals: Max V. Koenig

     Craftsmanship is at the heart of new luxury accessories brand, Max V Koenig. Designing bags of butter soft leather and nubuck, Koenig sculpts his hides by hand. By preserving the leather’s natural grain, texture and patina, and avoiding – where possible – unnecessary chemical processes, each bag is completely unique: a bespoke accessory for the twenty-first century.

Available now at SONG

NEW ARRIVALS: Comme des Garcons

Noir-Kei Ninomiya 

Autumn/Winter 2017-18

Available now at SONG

Paul Harnden Shoemakers
Autumn/Winter 2017-18

Bundle up for the winter in the new Paul Harnden Shoemakers available now at SONG

Dries Van Noten 

Autumn/Winter 2017-18

Available now at SONG

Walter Van Beirendonck
AW 2017-18

Fall is upon us, please come and discover the new arrivals at SONG

Sara Lanzi
Fall Winter 2017-18

The new season from designer Sara Lanzi has just arrived at Song.

Isaac Reina
AW 2017-18

Discover the new arrivals,
available at Song

New Arrival at Song

Cédric Charlier

Song is pleased to introduce the AW 2017-18 collection of Cédric Charlier. Cédric Charlier has worked for the House of Céline, Alber Elbaz’s team at Lanvin, and Cacharel among others.
He launched his own dynamic and creative collection in 2012.

Spalwart Shoes 

New arrivals at Song

Presentation of UNHEIMLICH,

the new limited edition by WienerBlut.

Legendary nose Mark Buxton and WienerBlut creator Alexander Lauber will present a glimpse into the making of UNHEIMLICH. 

Signed bottles will be exclusively available for attendees only at SONG on Thursday 6th July 17:00-19:00

Song summer sale begins saturday 17th June!