13/05/2026
Yesterday, Palina Rojinski walked the red carpet of the 79th Festival de Cannes in a one-of-a-kind couture piece by for , created from the costume archive of the Salzburg Festival.
This dress had already lived several lives. It began with costumes housed in the Salzburg Festival archive: These are costumes made for the stage, for performance, for one role, one body, one fleeting moment in the light before being consigned to the darkness of the archive.
But some things resist the ending written for them.
For the inaugural amfAR Gala Salzburg, curated by in 2025, Andreas Kronthaler cut up, reworked, and reincarnated selected archive costumes into new garments for a gala performance inspired by Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann, in support of HIV/AIDS research.
It was a radical gesture: making plain that culture, and indeed history, is not fixed, sealed, and untouchable. It is living material. Something that can be cut into, altered, repaired, re-sewn, reconstituted, and embodied in new ways and recast in a new light.
This year, a few days before Cannes, Palina was in Vienna, looking for a Cannes look with presence and meaning. We introduced her to the collection. The dress chose her almost immediately - some objects are inconveniently decisive once they know where they want to go.
Thank you, Palina, who carried this moment with such grace. We are deeply grateful. Thank you for your trust
Thank you to our friends and partners .andbeauty , who dropped everything to make this possible.
From the HALLE13 Collection.
In support of .
Images: Getty / Amy Sussmann, Vivienne Westwood sketch / PR International, .images, Alamy / Ralph Metzge, , .at,
