Almost €400,000 of Austrian taxpayers’ money has been committed to a three-year research project at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna examining how right-wing extremism is expressed through fashion. The team conducts fieldwork, archive research and online analysis, and collaborates with the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University in Washington, DC. Currently, the extreme-right fashion aesthetic is characterised by polysemia (ambiguity), which is referred to here as ‘new stylistic complexity'”, the project’s site states. It asks “How are power, cultural violence, aggression and hatred generated by extreme-right fashion? Which political and economic networks can be seen in extreme-right fashion?