What turns a garment into our most intimate companion—into a vessel of memory, a second skin, a shield, a resonant realm of emotion? In FAV PIECES Frauke von Jaruntowski and Gerhard Andraschko Sorgo present over fifty profoundly personal textile narratives from around the world. Artists, designers, philosophers, and cultural practitioners introduce their favorite pieces as repositories of identity, landscapes of meaning, and emotional topographies.

Having emerged from a participatory teaching project at the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, FAV PIECES is a literary and visual archive of intimacy: it celebrates clothing as a memory medium, emotional conduit, act of resistance, whimsical statement, or biographical vessel. The contributors’ accounts cover everything from a protective parachutist’s jumpsuit to a comforting heirloom apron, a subcultural leather jacket, a talismanic sweater, a Sherpa jacket with sociological significance, and a dress as a poetic mindspace.

With great sensitivity Jaruntowski and Andraschko Sorgo have created a discursive space where theory, everyday life, and intimate narration converge. Clothing is never just a textile layer—it is a powerful medium of self-definition, a fund of stories, a passionately guarded microcosm, a piece of home worn on the body.

The book’s design mirrors its conceptual richness. Bound in recycled denim, FAV PIECES intertwines meticulously curated visual sequences with an open fabric of essayistic texts. It is a book to be read, felt, and experienced—a book that resonates with the reader.

FAV PIECES is a bibliophilic sanctuary for all who see clothing as a cultural code, aesthetic interlocutor, and emotional archive. It is a tribute to the visible and invisible stories that envelop us every day.