CLASH Project 2018

Simone Schuffelen

CLASH Project
Fashion By Non-Fashion Designers

Since the beginning of FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2009, CLASH Project invites ten artists and designers (all non-fashion designers) per year to translate their work into wearable catwalk pieces. Participants from different art and design disciplines are challenged to transfer their practice, both materially and conceptually to a different medium. CLASH is the perfect opportunity to step out of your artistic comfort zone – to play and to experiment with other forms of art. The participants are professionals who represent various artistic disciplines, such as fine arts, product design, jewelry, performance and photography. All disciplines except fashion are possible. The CLASH project has become an iconic project, forming one of the highlights of the FASHIONCLASH Festival, and its outcome is always refreshing, captivating and trendsetting. 

More info: www.fashionclash.nl

Program - Fashion My Religion - FASHIONCLASH Festival 2018

What to expect! FASHIONCLASH Festival - Fashion My Religion! jubilee edition

FASHIONCLASH presents Fashion My Religion! The 10-year anniversary edition of the international and interdisciplinary FASHIONCLASH Festival. During the 15th, 16th and 17th of June 2018 more than 150 promising designers and stage performers from countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Finland, Uruguay and many more will take part in the festival. The festival program is composed within a 3-day program The Route: an inspiring pilgrimage along expositions, lectures, theatre- and dance performances and talks. The Fashion Show program takes place on Saturday evening, a spectacular evening where talents of the future will take the stage at the SAM-Decorfrabriek.

In short, a unique opportunity to get inspired by and discover the world of fashion, the newest fashion talents and to enjoy Maastricht as a fashion city.

For more information about the program and designers: www.fashionclash.nl
 

Tickets: FASHIONCLASH Festival is accessible for everyone and anyone and is mostly free of entrance, with the exception of the fashion shows on Saturday. Tickets for the fashion show are for sale from €12,50 (pre-sale online) and €15, -/ students €7,50 at the door. Tickets are available from May 1st 2018 via www.fashionclash.nl - and during the festival at the SAM-Decorfabriek.

Dorota Sak

Theme: Fashion My Religion!
The overarching theme Fashion My Religion! boldly dives into one of the most current themes of the moment; religion. Specifically, the relation between religion and gender, hair style and clothing. FASHIONCLASH dares participants and visitors to research, highlight or break existing religious traditions and taboos by way of using fashion. A call to activism that hopefully inspires a new generation of fashion- makers and lovers to fulfil their role as meaningful as they can.

‘’The meeting between fashion and religion isn’t a new one. Religious idioms and luxury have been used for decades by many within fashion. Sometimes just for ethical motives, other times with a dose of criticism. With ‘Fashion My Religion’ we are placing the audience and the designer in an interesting area of tension; fashion versus religion or cutting-edge versus tradition. We take a closer look at cultural expressions of personal, modern meaning and more traditional ones. We place historical absolutes opposite from modern-day fluid truths by really going in on social matters such as, feminism and human rights. Through (fashion)design we dissect the ever-changing awareness around the relationship we have with our environment and come up with new stories and approaches to ‘fashion and religion’.’’ -FC Team

Clash Project #9 at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017

Mandy Roos & Victoria Ledig (shoes by Chris van den Elzen) designers

CLASH PROJECT #9
Fashion By Non-Fashion Designers 

Since the beginning of FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2009, Clash Project has been one of the highlights of FASHIONCLASH Festival. The Clash project each year invites 10 young artists and designers to translate their work into a wearable piece for the catwalk. To the 10 participants from different art and design disciplines (all non-fashion designers), Clash project is an invitation to come out of the comfort zone, to play and to experiment. The project marks the core concept of FASHIONCLASH – ‘connecting talent, disciplines, visions and cultures through fashion’. The outcome is always refreshing, unexpected, captivating and trendsetting.

CLASH Project 2016

Bubble Boner - Adrianus Kundert

What happens when non-fashion designers design a fashion outfit and you give them carte-blanche?

10 non-fashion designers translated their vision on fashion into an ‘out-of-the-box’ outfit for the catwalk at FASHIONCLASH Festival.

Since the beginning of FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2009, Clash Project each year invites 10 young artists and designers to translate their work into a wearable piece for the catwalk. Participants from different art and design disciplines (all non-fashion designers) are challenged to transfer their practice, both materially and conceptually, to a fashion outfit. It is an invitation to come out of the comfort zone, to play and experiment.
For the 2016 edition the participants are asked to take the theme of Heritage in consideration, whether personal or the heritage of their practice.




Clash Project is an initiative by FASHIONCLASH foundation and is presented during FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht.

More information about FASHIONCLASH: www.fashionclash.nl

Clash Project 2016 Participants
Adrianus Kundert – designer – The Netherlands
Ditte Trudslev Jensen – jewelry designer – Denmark
Marit van Heumen – jewelry designer – The Netherlands
YuYeon Cho – artist – USA
Daniela Treija – multidisciplinary designer – Latvia
Sophie Vermeulen – artist – The Netherlands
Julian Komosa – product designer – UK
Sander Wassink & Ronald Smits – designer | photographer – The Netherlands
Alexandre de Vos – spatial designer – The Netherlands
Amber Veel – autonomous designer – The Netherlands

Credits
Art direction: FC artistic directors
Catwalk photography: Team Peter Stigter
Studio photography: Sem Shayne

Highlights of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Ieva Mezule

The 8th edition of the international and multidisciplinary FASHIONCLASH Festival took place from June 30th until July 3rd 2016 in Maastricht (The Netherlands)

During this 4-day festival over more than 150 young fashion designers and (performing)artists from 30 different countries were given a platform for their work. This festival is a unique opportunity to get inspired by the art of fashion and to discover new talents. The program consisted of Fashion shows, Exhibitions, Performances, a Designer Market, Fashion Talks, Awards, MAFAD Graduation Show and more. This year’s festival theme was HERITAGE: a celebration of cultural diversity, which included special events such as the Heritage Exhibition, the Heritage Show and the Spot On! Opening event.

'Spot On! Celebration of Diversity’
Unlike the previous editions, the festival opened with the theatrical and festive evening called 'Spot On! Celebration of Diversity’. The evening was directed by theater director Joost Horward and Nina Willems and with the cooperation with students from the Maastricht Theatre Academy. It was an evening where fashion clashed with theater, dance and music, but also an evening with a political statement to honor brotherhood, addressing the current state of mind in Europe. The finale ended with lyrics of John Donne's "No Man is an Island ' along the tune of "Alle Menschen werden Brüder". In this show there where ethnical costumes from the students of the Antwerp Fashion department and the KABK The Hague, costumes from Tiel Janssen and work of designers like Markéta Mrtišková, Uta Bekaia and Linda Friesen.

Markéta Mrtišková

Awards 
Before the party took off at the SAMdecorfabriek, the Saturday program was festively concluded with the Awards Show. Three awards were presented. Chapeau Magazine Award for best MAFAD graduation collection was won by Domino Vughts. Kaltblut Magazine Award went to Hermione Flynn. The main prize, the FASHIONCLASH Festvial Talent Award 2016, was presented by the mayor of Maastricht to Alessandro Trincone from Italy. The jury panel of Amandine Piango(NJAL), Carlo Wijnands and Marlo Saalmink had the difficult task to choose a winner from many participants of the festival.

Alessandro Trincone, winner FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016 talent award

CLASH Project 2015

Charlotte Van de Velde – jewellery + objects

7th editon of the CLASH Project during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015. 

CLASH PROJECT, Fashion By Non-Fashion Designer Evert since 2009 Clash project has been one of the highlights of FASHIONCLASH Festival. The project marks the core concept of FASHIONCLASH – ‘connecting talent, disciplines, visions and cultures through fashion’. Each year ten non-fashion designers are invited to express their visions and ideas about ‘fashion’ through fashion outfit. The outcome is always refreshing, captivating and trendsetting.

More information and overview of Clash project archive: http://clashproject.tumblr.com

2015 Participants

Mio Fujimaki – jewellery and objects
Anne Büscher – jewellery, objects
Charlotte Van de Velde – jewellery, objects
Stephan Auberg – design
Roos Gomperts – design, ceramics
Jan Pieter Kaptein – design
Nathalie Van der Massen – graphic, textile design
Alexandra Karpilovski – fine art
Juan Pablo Plazas Saenz– installation & performance
Vera Gulikers – fine art

Clash project 2015 is curated by Matylda Krzykowski and Charlotte Van de Velde

Editorial images: Sem Shayne
Catwalk + backstage images: Team Peter Stigter

Clash Project at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

As the name already suggests, FASHIONCLASH stands for a clash with fashion. Based on this concept, the Clash project is established in 2009. Within this project artists and creatives but all non-fashion designers are invited to express their vision on fashion in an outfit that can be worn by a model and showed on the runway.

CLASH Project #6 participants

1 Benten Clay - artist duo (Germany)

2 Dennis Vanderbroeck – artist (Netherlands)

3 Gabriel Guevara – jewellery designer (Netherlands)

4 Minou Lejeune – designer (Netherlands)

5 Marie Claire Krell – artist (Germany)

6 Ola Mirecka – designer (Poland)

7 Raoul Zoellner & Viola– artist (Germany)

8 Sanne Vaassen – artist (Netherlands)

9 Shana Teugels – jewellery designer (Belgium)

10 Titia Dane & Ionie Chamilaki – designer (Netherlands)

Clash project is curated by Matylda Krzykowski

 http://clashproject.tumblr.com

FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013 Exhibition

Dennis Vanderbroeck

Check out FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013 exhibition!
Design and scenography has been created by Studio Stad.

Opening FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013

Last weekend FASCHIONCLASH celebrated its fifth anniversary by means of a spectacular program with shows, exhibition, performances by more than hundred designers from all over the world. FASHIONCLASH Maastricht was opened on the 31st of May with shows of regional top talent Tom Van der Borght, a performance of Dennis Vanderbroeck and Sarah Tulp, the Clash project and FASHIONCLASH film ‘Aspire’ made by Strictua.
For everybody who missed it, don’t be sad. The FASHIONCLASH side program lasts until Sunday the 9th of June.


www.fashionclash.nl

Open call for participation at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012

Designers and artists wanted for the 4th edition of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012 / 8, 9 & 10 June 2012 in SAMdecorfabriek Maastricht

FASHIONCLASH Maastricht is an international and interdisciplinary fashion event where upcoming designers and artists from various disciplines get the opportunity to present their work to a diverse audience.
FASHIONCLASH shows the art of fashion in the broadest perspective; fashion, textile, photography, design, jewellery, art, video, performance, illustration, etc.
FASHIONCLASH gives platform to upcoming talents by organising projects such as the successful event ‘FASHIONCLASH Maastricht’.
More than three hundred talents from all over Europe have already participated in the past editions.

The application forms for the fashion show program and the exhibition are available for download here: www.fashionclash.nl 

You can sign up until 20 January 2012.

Take a look at www.fashionclash.nl  for previous editions of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht.

Studio 33 in Maastricht

While the eyes are all on Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven my friends from Studio 33 opened doors in the weekend of 22 and 23 October.
Studio 33 presented a group of independently working artists and designers who shared a profound interest in each others work and artistic process for some years now. All of them graduated from ABKM (Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht) and they are based in Maastricht.

Keep up the good work!
Valentin Löllmann, Fabian von Spreckelsen, John Franzen, Ingo Binder, Theda Schoppe, Kaspar Hamacher, Laszlo Rozsnoki and Felix Baumsteiger.











 Have a look a their work and the beautiful space of Studio 33.

This was FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011 Expo

Clash Project


Lisa Klappe


Natascha Plum & Aleksandra Žiravac


'IXX creates PRINTS presents textile designers: Jolijn Fiddelaers, Suzanne Vaessen, Hanneke de Kort, Astrid Verkoyen, Judith Peskens, Meike Lenssen





Valentim Quaresma


Marlou Breuls


Lonneke van der Palen


Studio Noir


Femke Reijerman & Fleur van Maarschalkerwaart




Marjolein Stormezand


Wieteke Opmeer


Fien de Graaf


MEM Couture

Iris van Daalen

Christiaan Lebens


Mieke Kockelkorn


Sophie Duran


Lore Langendries


© pictures by Branko Popovic

Clash Project at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011

This year the CLASH Project, fashion by non-fashion designers, was so amazing!
Matylda Krzykowski coordinated clash project.

Clash project at the opening of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011! Pure enjoyment!





Pictures are by Lonneke van der Palen

1 Sue Doeksen, NL (Graphic Designer) in collaboration with www.klinkhamermeubel.nl


2 Wojtek Scherp, DE (Artist)


3 Valentin Loellmann, NL (Product Designer)


4 Sidi El Karchi, NL (Artist)


5 Fabian von Spreckelsen NL (Product Designer


6 Gunnar Haemmerle, DE (Blogger)


7 Niek Pulles NL (Designer)


8 Jane Bowler, UK (Textile Designer)


9 Frederik Färg SE (Furniture Designer)


10 Nonstopnerds, DE (2d Arts Platform)

FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2009