BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG: Fashion Shows at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019

Bruna Ignatowska

The 11th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival contained a two-day programme with five show blocks consisting of multiple designers: NextGen, Clash, NextLevel, BODY ALUMNI and Partner & Awards show.

The Fashion Show program is a great possibility to discover the latest fashion talent from around the world. This year, the festival once again offers a stage to fashion designers such as Bruna Ignatowska from Brazil, Fabio Bigondi from Italy, ANNJOY from Germany, Marie Lamberechts from Belgium and Annais Yurca Mancilla from Peru. Dutch design talent was also well represented with Maastricht based Chiron Floris, Carlijn Veurink, Berend Brus, Ode Aan Oma, Roos Boshart Prins and TEUN, who impressed with his new collection.
One of the blocks, namely the Clash, consisted of designers who show fashion as art or question the boundaries of by experimenting with shapes and form or by the way fashion is presented. In this block both imaginative as innovative pleasures of fashion design where showcased by multidisciplinary designers such as Courtney Makins, Sarah Ama Duah, TVDB and Angelo Castro & Belen Fusco.
Part of the Clash show block, that also contained the presentation of the CLASH Project that was specially initiated for the festival. For this project, a number of non-fashion designers have been asked to translate their vision of fashion into a fashion outfit.
Body Alumni, the 2019 graduates from Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design where also part of the show programme.
The show programme was concluded with the Partners & Awards show, where designers from the collaboration partners such as ModaLisboa and Czech Centre are shown. In this show there was a special performance where fashion and opera will clash and costumes from the Fantasio (Opera Zuid) are shown, accompanied by a live performance by the soprano Kristina Bitenc. Fantasio is a romantic comedy by Jacques Offenbach, the grandmaster of comic opera. Costumes for the fools were designed by four fashion designers Ferry Schiffelers, Teun Seuren, Dusty Thomas and Maarten Van Mulken.

Photography by Laura Knipsael

Hair: KEVIN.MURPHY
Make-up ELLIS FAAS Cosmetics with Pop-Up Make-up Team by Rachel
Choreography: SESSIBON