Modern Fashion: Wiener Werkstätte & Paris

Preview: written before the show opened

Before the Wiener Werkstätte made a single dress, the corset had to go. Henry van de Velde and Anna Muthesius were already pushing the loose reform dress in the late 1800s, and that is where this account of Viennese fashion from about 1900 to 1930 begins.

The centre is the Werkstätte's fashion department, founded in 1911, and its traffic with Paris. Paul Poiret, then the "King of Fashion", was in contact with it, and Emilie Flöge went to Paris regularly to study the trends. Expect sketches, paintings, photographs, clothes and jewellery by Poiret, Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, Flöge, Dagobert Peche, Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill and others. You also get Klimt and Schiele, in a show where the clothes are the point.

No one has reviewed it yet and the museum hasn't named single pieces, so go for the subject: how Vienna 1900 dressed, not only how it painted. Entry is €19, €2.50 under 19, and the museum is closed on Tuesdays.