© Unit F, Webdesign Boris Kopeinig
The CFA
- Contemporary Fashion Archive was an international research and event project for contemporary fashion design.
The five renowned European fashion institutions Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), Dutch Fashion Foundation
(Amsterdam), Flanders Fashion Institute (Antwerp), Hochschule für Gestaltung, Technik und Wirtschaft (Pforzheim) and Unit
F büro für mode collaborated to build the first information network for identifying and presenting current positions and developments
in fashion design.
This information is supplied to the public on an Internet platform with a digital archive and at documentation centres
established at the partner institutions. The CFA was set up between May 2002 and late 2005. It was initiated by Unit F büro
für mode and received funding from the European Union for a period of three years as an exemplary project for the use of modern
communication technologies (as part of the EUs Culture 2000 programme). CFA was officially presented on 6 November 2003
at the MUMOK Lounge in Viennas MuseumsQuartier.
© Unit F, Webdesign Boris Kopeinig
Service Portfolio
Cooperative Projects
TIME PERIOD
2002 2005
Place
Antwerp, Arnheim, London, Pforzheim, ViennaPROJECT STATUS
realised
Network
Central St. Martins College of Art & DesignDutch Fashion Foundation
Flanders Fashion Institute
Hochschule Pforzheim University