OHM by Jivika Biervliet

OHM collection by Jivika Biervliet

Credits:
Jewelery: Peter Hsieh (www.peterhsieh.com) Photography: (www.danielcroes.com)
Model: Passian George Smit Assistance: Pien Klein Douwel

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Jivika Biervliet at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Jivika Biervliet teamed up again with jewelry designer Peter Hsieh for the presentation of her new collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival.

For this collection Jivika was inspired by her my Indian roots, translating it into daring color palette, drapings, silhouettes and styling.


Q&A with Jivika Biervliet

When did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer?
It actually happened very accidentally. When I was 18 I subscribed for an art contest and chose to design a fashion collection while I had never designed anything. So I just did it and teached myself really quickly how to sew, and then I won (it was a really bad collection). After that I did and entrance exam at the HKU and in 2010 I graduated in the course Fashion Communication. Right after that I started to focus on menswear.

In what projects are you involved at this moment? It's something really cool and such a big honor. Ruben, the shoe designer I'd worked together with for FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 edition, asked me to design his wedding suit. He's going to marry in September!

How would you define fashion?
I believe fashion is about freedom, it's a way to express ourselves without words

Who are your artistic influences or inspirations and why?
I always listen to hiphop, the whole day, every day, so I believe this influences me because it brings me in the right mood.

Finding your own voice is difficult, where and how do you find your personal creativity (before you start designing; during the design process)?
It happens in my head and starts with a feeling which I want to share and just start. And I really need to be alone during the start so I can work from my intuition.

What challenges did you face during the design process? Working with colors!
Most of the times I work with black. I also always wear black and think in black silhouettes so it was quite a challenge to do this differently. I started with not wearing black. People who know me and saw me walking with all these colors got confused, haha

What do you want to communicate with your designs in general? No rules

Can you tell something about the collection you presented at the FASHIONCLASH Festival? This time I will collaborate again with jewelry/accessory designer Peter Hsieh, we have also worked together for the 2015 edition. It will be colorfull and shiny, with Indian influences.

Why have you decided to participate again at FASHIONCLASH Festival? 
Because it's always too much fun, it's inspiring and they offer us many opportunities. This is the fifth time I participate at FCF, third time with a show.
What can we expect from you at the festival?
Men, colors and good vibes!

Can you tell us something about your heritage?
My parents are from Suriname, my mother has Indian roots and my father is completely mixed. I am raised with Hinduism and Catholicism and believe everything is on.

How is the theme Heritage related to your work (can be also preferred to previous work)?
For this collection I was inspired by my Indian roots, you can find this back in the colors, the drapings, the silhouettes and the styling.

If you could trade your heritage, for what would you trade it?
 I wouldn't trade it, I appreciate it that I'm raised with different cultures. I think this is also a great thing from The Netherlands, that so many different cultures are living together in such a small country. Only thing which I think it's really sad, that there is still not acceptance everywhere between these cultures, while we can learn so much from each other. 

What’s a standard day for you? Get up at 7:15, meditate in bed, open my curtains backwards with one eye open, pray, drink coffee, turn on the music, work, and ending the day with a yoga class.

Vegan, vegetarian, healthy diet or any food will do?
Vegetarian.

What’s your favourite song, food and movie at the moment?
All time favourite song: D'Angelo - Cruisin', this is also my alarm to wake up.

Favourite food: Chocolate sorbet ice cream.

Favourite Movie: E.T. & Gone Girl.

What is your bad habit?
 I can miss people very badly, it can be so bad that I dream about someone every night for months.

What’s your favourite city? Amsterdam, because my sister and her kids live there.


What/Who do you miss the most when you are not at home? 
My family, friends and the yoga classes.

Read more about Jivika and her brand: http://www.jivikabiervliet.com

All images Team Peter Stigter

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016, the HERITAGE edition

Save the date for FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016, the HERITAGE edition 
June 30 – July 3, various locations in Maastricht

The 8th edition of the international and interdisciplinary fashion festival takes place June 30 – July 3 in Maastricht (The Netherlands).
The 4-day festival program with Fashion Shows, Exhibitions, Performances, Designer Market, Fashion Talks, MAFAD Academy Graduation, Awards and Parties gives more than 150 designers and artists from all over the world the opportunity to show their work to a diverse international audience and industry professionals.

The 8th edition of the festival is curated around the theme of HERITAGE, consisting of a theme related and general programme. The festival is a reflection of what is going on within the international fashion scene in the new generation of designers; imagination of the zeitgeist of contemporary fashion design through the eyes of the new generation of designers and artists. FASHIONCLASH Festival is an unique opportunity to discover new talent and to get inspired by the art of fashion.

FASHIONCLASH Festival is accessible to everyone. Most of the program is accessible for free, to attend the Fashion Shows there is a ticket sale starting beginning of May. Since the first edition in 2009 more than 900 talents from 50 different countries have joined FASHIONCLASH Festival and were given the opportunity to show their talent and work. Some of their careers really took of from there! Take a look at fashionclash.nl for an impression of the event and the activities of FASHIONCLASH throughout the world.

HERITAGE Edition 
FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016 looks to the future along the theme of ‘Heritage’.
‘Like no other fashion knows how to renew itself again and again by creating a new atmosphere each season, using the past as an infinite source of inspiration and by selling and presenting the past as the new future. Designers look back to the past but also dare to speculate about the future. From this perspective designers are shaping the future of the shape of things to come. What is the role of our cultural heritage in a constantly changing world? How are new generation designers dealing with their cultural heritage (ancestry and traditions) in a globalized world where everything seems to be reachable and in which fashion is dominated by Fast Fashion chains and mass-production? Where do you come from, where do you go?’ 

Campaign Launch
In relation to the theme of Heritage a campaign is created with an editorial and fashion film in collaboration with Lonneke van der Palen, Studio Noto, M.A.C. Cosmetics, KEVIN.MURPHY and WEDOVOODOO.TV In this editorial work of emerging designers is included such as Merel Bos, Jivika Biervliet, Noir Near Future and Minou Lejeune.

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016 campaign credits
Photography: Lonneke van der Palen Make-up: M.A.C. Cosmetics
Hair: KEVIN.MURPHY
Graphic design: Studio Noto
Styling & Art direction: FASHIONCLASH
Assistants: Pia Walter, Nienke Creemers, Sem Shayne
Models: Isabella Provaas @ CJ Models, Mara Kasanpawiro and Isa Nilwik @Models Rock Agency, Bert Snaterse, Jessica Irabor, Annoury Belaraj
Designers: Merel Bos, Joelle Boers, Judith van Vliet, Noir Near Future, Renate Cuiper, Jivika Biervliet, Minou Lejeune, Jennifer Droguett, Michał Wójciak, Julia Aumann, Maarten van Mulken, Nawie Kuiper, Branko Popovic and Brenda Prins.

Partners
FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016 is made possible thanks to generous support of partners and sponsors, funds, friends and voluneers. FASHIONCLASH is structurally supported by the Province of Limburg and The Municipality of Maastricht. FASHIONCLASH Festival is part of Fashion Maastricht.

Best of designSUPERMARKET 2015

The 9th edition of international festival of contemporary design designSUPERMARKET 2015 took place December 10 - 13 at Kafkův dům in Prague's city center.

On behalf of FASHIONCLASH I found myself in Prague again with aim to scout Czech designers and to represent Dutch talent. FASHIONCLASH and designSUPERMARKET teamed up last year and as a result of this collaboration three Dutch designers who participated at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 where selected to showcase their work. Manon Boertien, Jivika Biervliet and Bluedenîmes represented FASHIONCLASH and the Netherlands. Like previous year, Czech designers where given the opportunity to pitch their work. During the Modeschau fashion talk with Veronika Ruppert, winners where announced. Among the winners was the hat brand Sofyahat by designer Sofya Samareva, who is now selected for the second time in a row.  Second selected brand is a brand new collective of young fashion designers who joined forces under the name Dry Milk of Virgin Mary and the third brand is the jewellery collective Unosto. The winners are selected to take part at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016.

with the winner for FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

designSUPERMARKET is one of the most relevant platforms for Czech designers, offering an outstanding selection of emerging Czech designers.  The selection contains names that where present there last year but also new entries such as the innovative label LEM design who presented a collection with pieces that are transformable to various shapes.
Next to local designers there are also interesting brands from Israel to be discovered such as Muslin Brothers, Danit Peleg and Ezekiel design.

Take a look at the picture report below.

All images are by brankopopovicblog.

 http://www.designsupermarket.cz/en/

the venue: Kafkův dům

Cologne Catwalk at Cologne Fashion Days 2014

Judith van Vliet & Chris van den Elzen
winners of Cologne Catwalk Award 2014

The 4th of COLOGNE CATWALK took place on Saturday, the 15th of November within the context of a new fashion event, Cologne Fashion Days.

Professional jury selected seven designers from all fair participants to present their collections on the runway of COLOGNE CATWALK. Among them where designers House of Chang/Chang 13, Birke van Maartens, BOUR, Brachmann, Ludwig & Schwarz and Jolonté Vous!.
FASHIONCLASH designers Jivika Biervliet and Chris van den Elzen & Judith van Vliet where also selected for the Cologne Catwalk.
Jivika Biervliet presented a brand new menswear collection for which she collaborated with shoe designer Ruben Lekkerkerker and designer Peter Hsieh.

Artistic Director of the COLOGNE CATWALK is Waldek Szymkowiak, who has choreographed shows for labels such as Michalsky, Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Dior.

Chris van den Elzen & Judith van Vliet where awarded with the Cologne Catwalk Award 2014.

http://www.colognefashiondays.com/

Take a look at the highlights of Cologne Catwalk 2014

All images are © brankopopovicblog

Jivika Biervliet at FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland

Jivika Biervliet presented her latest collection at FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland. Together with label2 she respresented FASHIONCLASH and she made us very proud.

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FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland 9th edition

FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland celebrated its 9th edition from 15- 20 October. This was the third time that I attended this wonderful event and this time it was very special as FASHIONCLASH is officially working together with FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland.
FASHIONCLASH presented the Dutch label Jivika Biervliet and label2 from Italy. Both shows where very cool and brought something fresh to the event.
In addition several fashion films from FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013 where screened in the Fashion Film Festival preview, such as Karel van Leare film and our film ASPIRE.

During the four days of stay in Łódź there was great company among international guests and lovely people behind this event. Next to the extensive fashion show programme and the Showroom  there where some great parties, from which K-Mag party ended as most memorable.

Coming back to the fashion shows, after seeing almost all shows some of the most memorable where the collections of Dawid Tomaszewski, Ima Mad, Herzlich Willkommen, Joanna Startek, Sowik Matyga, Nenukko, Aga Pou and Idio and Jakub Pieczarowski.
MMC Studio and Łukasz Jemioł Basic provided entertaining shows.

During this intense four-day visit to Poland I stayed at Andel's Hotel Łódź, which is always a highlight.  I love this hotel!

Here you can see some impressions of the event.
More information: http://www.fashionweek.pl

Sidedish event by Blacklabel during FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013

This year we had some great side events in the FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013 SIDE PROGRAM. One of these special events took place last weekend (June 1).
FASHIONCLASH teamed up with Blacklabel to set up this event as an exclusive encounter with designers, press, professionals and with some major speakers. During this event designers had the opportunity to learn everything about the creative and the commercial aspect of building a successful brand. One of the speakers were Truus and Riet Spijkers, designers behand the leading Dutch label SPIJKERSENSPIJKERS.
Marin Licina also gave an inspiring presentation.

Selected group of upcoming labels has been invited to present their collections with showroom presentations. Particpating designers were: Arma Cutis, Ingo Binder, Tessa Wagenvoort, Jivika Biervliet, Noir Near Future, Aïcha Gerards, the fORS and ABKM fashion and jewellery students
http://www.blcklabel.com/

Jivika Biervliet at Amsterdam Fashion Week

Jivika Biervliet debuted at Amsterdam Fashion Week with her playful menswear collection. I met Jivika last summer when she took part at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011 and it's really great to see her at the AFW stage.
http://www.jivikabiervliet.com

Have a look at the this photo report.

Menswear at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011

Lot of beautiful menswear at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011. I really like the ABKM 3rd year 'Knitted project'.
Diana Tax presented several knitted sweaters as well. I saw many things I would love to wear, like Angelo van Mol's clothes or something by Ingo Binder and Von Bardonitz.
Delikatessen, Ingo Binder and Nawie Kuiper are allready availible in FASHIONCLASH STORE and soon the beautiful clotehs by Natascha Plum & Aleksandra Žiravac.