Palomo Spain Fall/Winter 2017

Palomo Spain Fall/Winter 2017 collection titled “Sexual Object” presented at New York Fashion Week Men’s. Designer Alejandro Gomez Palomo's androgynous style is revolutionizing menswear. 
http://palomospain.com/en/

Palomo Spain Spring/Summer 2017

Palomo 
Spring/Summer 2017

Although based in London for tha past five years,  Spanish designer presentedhis latest collection in his homeland during Madrid Fashion Week.

Blending traditional aesthetic from the south of Spain he presented a romantic menswear collection with a successful gender bending approach.

"Graduated in Menswear Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, I envision an idea of fashion that reflects the taste and skill that I have developed through the years in London and combines it with the traditional aesthetic that I was brought up with in the South of Spain."

http://www.palomospain.com

VERWEVEN 2015 - Nina Willems

Schueller De Waal

VERWEVEN 2015, the gender edition 

A project of theatrical performer Nina Willems in the context of FASHIONCLASH Festival

What do the clothes you wear tell us about who you are? And what is the role of clothing in relation to GENDER?
For "VERWEVEN", 3 people where asked to tell the stories behind the clothes they wear. How do these clothes reflect their personalities and memories? And how do they use clothes to express their gender?
Every interview resulted in a short film. For every person that is interviewed, one young designer created an entirely new outfit, that reflects their personality.

VERWEVEN 2015 was the opening performance of FASHIONCLASH Festival.
Transgender model Gia Bab took the first steps on the runway this edition wearing creation by David Laport. The performance was accompanied by Bird Gehrl song by Antony and the Johnsons. Following Gia, Milou van Duijnhoven and Selm Wenselaers took the stage. Three beautiful human beings where wearing outfits inspired by their own story. All together an unforgettable experience and perfect embodiment of the festival's gender topic.

For FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015, Nina Willems created " VERWEVEN LIVE", an impressive installation that engaged the visitors of the festival. The VERWEVEN installation invited the visitors

to tell the stories about the clothes they wore at the moment. This short stories where edited right away and included in the installation as short documentaries that show personal stories about the clothes we wear and about the role fashion plays in our daily lives, and in particular how fashion plays a role in our gender expression.

VEWEVEN 2015 designers David Laport, Schueller De Waal and Loes van Nijnatten.

http://www.ninawillems.com

Gender Exhibition - FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

VERWEVEN 2015 by Nina Willems

Gender and Fashion

Curated exhibition at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

Gender is the sociocultural identity that relates to a person’s biological sex. it is said that this identity is a performance, since there is not only one way to male or female. Gender is perceived as a spectrum nowadays. it’s a stirring topic that has also been very present in fashion this year due to fashion’s ability to reflect one’s mood, personality and identity to theworld.
FASHIONCLASH Festival takes a stand for gender diversity and individualism. the festival wants to raise awareness about the problems that occur when it comes to gender issues and how crucial public opinion about it can be. that’s why this exposition gathers artists that are also challenged to think about the different aspects of gender. they offer the viewer a new perspective by illustrating what gender means to them individually. For instance, the works address gender in other cultures, transgenderism, gender in history, gender in media, body expression, etcetera are exhibited. FASHIONCLASH Festival brings together these different works and visions and celebrates self expression and diversity.

Exhibition design and concept by Studio Stad

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all images by brankopopovicblog

Juliëtte Heijnen fashion performance in the exhibition space

VERWEVEN 2015 by Nina Willems

FASHIONCLASH Festival Pop-Up Expo at Bonnefantenmuseum

Dries van Noten, AW 2014/14

"Gendercodes in fashion throughout the 20th century" 

Pop-up expo by Modemuseum Hasselt & Bonnefantenmuseum
during FASHIONCLASH Festival
2015 03.06.2015 - 14.06.2015

Fashion is considered to be an important medium for individual self expression, as well as for the genderrelated aspects of this indentity. It's traditionally split into womens- and mensfashion, but because of its expressive character, fashion has become a platform for breaking down conventional social roles. Additionally, the fashionchoices of gender variant people illustrate that biological sex is a relative concept in fashion. Furthermore, the fashion world adapted this crossgender approach as a strategy causing the cross-fertilization of men's and women's clothing to grow more and more apparent throughout the recent years. Since the arrival of genderneutral clothing the ends of the genderspectrum have gotten explicitly entangled. People now have complete freedom of choice to express themselves how and as who they want.
FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 wants to celebrate self expression. That's why they collaborated with Modemuseum Hasselt and Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht to set up this pop-up exhibition as an element of their gender program. The expo travels through the costume and fashion history of the 20th century to show that gender has always been a precondition for fashion design and that fashion has always played a role in gender fluidity.

http://www.bonnefanten.nl
http://www.modemuseumhasselt.be

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 - Participants

Rafael Kouto

FASHIONCLASH Festival announces participants for 2015 edition

The 7th edition of the international and interdisciplinary FASHIONCLASH Festival,  takes place on June 11th – 14th in Maastricht.

The 4-day festival program complete with fashion shows showcasing upcoming creative talent, exhibitions, fashion film, theatre and dance performances, lectures, workshops and a dynamic Side Program, gives promising young professionals from across the globe the opportunity to present their work to a diverse international audience and industry professionals. The 7th edition of the festival will showcase more than 100 talents from all over the world.
Curious to see who will be on display during the festival have a look at selection of designers and artists: participants.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is accessible for everyone. Admission for the exhibition, designer market and most of the Side Program is free. To attend the runway program one can buy ticket.

Program at SAMdecorfabriek 12 – 14 June

A Fashion Show schedule where emerging designers and graduating students of MAFAD (Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design) will show their sublime collections. The line-up of designers represents a broad range of design aesthetics and features up-and-coming names like Flora Miranda (Belgium), Odio x Pieczarkowski (Poland), Wilfried Lantoine (France), Inês Duvale (Portugal), Rafael Kouto (Switzerland), Blank Etiquette (Germany), Judith van Vliet x Chris van den Elzen (Netherlands) and many more. The catwalk will also function as a stage for several performances that will take place as well as an Award ceremony on the last day of the festival.

Wilfried Lantoine

Sofie van Aelbroeck

The fashion shows are complemented by an multidisciplinary Exhibition where a selection of creative work curated around the theme of gender will be exhibited. The former interior design factory of Mosa will temporarily be transformed into an innovative museum, where the selected art works relay the different visions of gender in various ways. Think among others photography, illustration, clothing, video, object and shoe design. In the exhibition you can find work by Gabriel Annmaher, Camiel Fortgens and Sofie van Aelbroeck.
VERWEVEN 2015, a performance project created by theatre performer Nina Willems, will yet again be one of the highlights of the exhibition.
You'll also be able to visit the CLASH Project, one of the core projects of the festival, in the exhibition area. It places its focus on the connection between disciplines and visions. In other words it embodies the interdisciplinary spirit FASHIONCLASH tries to propagate. Each year ten non-fashion designers are invited to share their vision according to their artistic discipline in relation to fashion. Ultimately this leads to a 'clash' of philosophical, cultural and practical methodologies. As a result a new hybrid discipline takes form. For more information or an overview of the participating artists go to → http://fashionclash.nl/clash-project-2015/

Sciumè Accessori

The 'designer' Market completes the Festival programme at the main venue. This is a great opportunity for the audience to personally meet the designers/ Consisting of stands and showrooms, thirty young brands will have the opportunity to present and sell their designs. This is a great opportunity for the audience to personally meet the designers and to actually buy their unique clothing, jewellery and accessories. You can discover here brands and designers like Acephala, Bleuberries, Delacier, ONE WOLF, Sofya Samareva, Sciume, Mies Nobis and many more.

FASHIONCLASH Side Program, at various location in Maastricht 11–14 June

The FASHIONCLASH Side Program is an accompanying schedule taking place at various locations in Maastricht city centre. As the catwalk shows are scheduled to start in the late afternoon, our captivating side programme will arouse your attention in the morning and prickle your senses in the early afternoon.
The 'de Bijenkorf', a luxury department store, will host the captivating Showpieces exhibition.
Showpieces is an multidisciplinary exciting new feature to the festival that shows striking standout pieces showpieces such as a dress by Santiago Úttima, shoes by Simonetta Alejandra or jewelry by Inderjeet Sandhu.

Simonetta Alejandra 

Bonnefantenmuseum will exhibit a series of historical silhouettes, courtesy of the MMH Fashion Museum in Hasselt, that represent and typify gender. Bureau Europa will host the 'Meet the Maker' exhibition where you'll have the opportunity to meet the artists themselves.

Blank Etiquette 

At the Museum aan het Vrijthof you can visit MIJNshop/MIJNcollectie expo but also installations by Malou Beemer, Studio IKKAI and Lisa Schamlé. Furthermore we seduce you to engage in the 'fashion & gender' dialogue with the 'Fashion Talk' at Centre Céramique, also the venue for our latest incubating project, 'Meet the Industry', where the upcoming talents showcasing during the FCF Festival will have a chance to meet industry professionals. Lumière Cinema will host 'Fashion Film Night Out' where you'll be able to watch short fashion films.
And if that isn't enough, there'll be several exhibitions located at must-see stores such as PL-Line, Stijl, Conflict, Festen, Noir, Le Marais Deux & Koffie and Mayfair.

GENDER Edition, celebration of diversity and self-expression
FASHIONCLASH believes that fashion as an art form can stimulate critical debate about current controversial issues which are discussed in society. This year's overarching theme during the FC Festival is GENDER. This theme shapes the overall festival but is mostly visible in the exhibition area and in the performances. FASHIONCLASH would therefore like to invite you to celebrate the diversity of humanity and stimulate them to express their true self, whether that be lesbian, gay, bi or transgender, as provocateurs or conformists. We believe clothing is a way to express identity. An autonomous identity an individual has the right and freedom to build. From this perspective the art of fashion has an important empowering function, it can aid us to accept those that are different. This has led us to imagine a world without gender. A world where all restrictive boundaries regarding gender roles and identities don't exist. Is this a possible reality?

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FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 Campaign

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 - the Gender Edition and Campaign Launch 

On 1st of March the Open Call for Entries ended. We have received a staggering amount of applications ranging from Europe to South America as well as Asia– the creative standard set by the applications exceeded our expectations. A summary of the chosen designers and a detailed outline of the program for the upcoming edition will be published in the following weeks. Consequently, the FASHIONCLASH Team is proud to present to you the campaign for the upcoming FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015.

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 Theme - GENDER

FASHIONCLASH believes that fashion as an art form can critically discuss current controversial issues which are discussed in society. This year's overarching theme during the FASHIONCLASH Festival is GENDER. This theme shapes the campaign and the overall festival but is mostly visible in the exhibition area, various performances as well as several locations situated in and around Maastricht city centre. The concept of gender refers to sociocultural implications that define our biological sex – simply put the roles that differentiate between masculinity and femininity. The past few months we have seen many fashion designers, such as Vivienne Westwood, Dries van Noten or Givenchy, decide to break the traditional gender stereotypes in fashion. For instance presenting male’s skirts, which are still viewed as solely reserved for women, or the rise of unisex as the new androgynous. Even selfridges has pioneered with a pop-up store offering genderless clothing. This has led us to imagine a world without gender. A world where all restrictive boundaries regarding gender roles and identities don't exist. Is this a possible reality ?

FASHIONCLASH FESTIVAL 2015 would like to invite you to celebrate the diversity of people and stimulate them to express their true self, whether that be provocateurs or conformists. We believe clothing is an extension of personal identity. An autonomous identity an individual has the right and freedom to build themselves. From this perspective fashion has an important empowering function, it can aid us to accept those that are different. Various designers and artists are going to present their vision of gender during the FASHIONCLASH Festival Exhibition, which is situated next to the runway shows.

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015, the 7th edition of the international and interdisciplinary fashion festival takes place on June 11th – 14th in Maastricht. The 4-day festival program complete with fashion shows showcasing upcoming creative talent, exhibitions, fashion film, theatre and dance performances, pop-up stores, lectures, workshops and a dynamic Side Program, giving promising young professionals from across the globe the opportunity to present their work to a diverse international audience and industry professionals.

www.fashionclash.nl

Campaign credits:
photography: Lonneke van der Palen
graphic design: Noto
make-up: Pebbles Gravee at M.A.C Cosmetics
hair: Kelly Derks at KEVIN MURPHY
costume: Mieke Kockelkorn
model: Merel Visschedijk
video: Strictua www.fashionclash.nl

UNISEX - Vivienne Westwood AW2015

Taking 'Unisex' to another level with Fall 2015 collection presentation.
The iconic British designer has launched a political clothing collection designed to be worn by either men or women.
As our approach and attitude to androgyny in fashion has evolved and society’s boundaries towards masculine-feminine attributes have blurred, people are increasingly taking a more relaxed unisex attitude towards their clothing choices.
The new unisex line adds a whole new concept to borrowing from your other-half's wardrobe. Trousers for women, dresses for men.
The collection was created by Westwood alongside Andreas Kronthaler and focuses on a more relaxed silhouette with wrap around jackets, knitted jumpers and baggy shorts all of which are designed to be worn by both sexes.
The Unisex idea originates from Vivienne’s ‘DO IT YOURSELF’ collection and is informed by her well known ethos to ‘Buy less, choose well, and make it last.’ In creating this incredibly wearable and desirable unisex line she has made adhering to her fashion philosophy easier than ever.

http://www.viviennewestwood.com

Serkan Cura SS 2015 Couture

Gender Play at Serkan Cura show during Couture Paris Fashion Week. Serkan sent one of his couture looks on a male model (Thomas Lagrève), showing it can look as stunning.

More images from the collection: here

All pictures : Shoji Fujii

http://serkancouture.com