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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

FASHIONCLASH Designer Market at de Bijenkorf

In the weekend of 19 and 20 December young designers where given the stage at the de Bijenkorf Maastricht luxury warehouse. 12 emerging designers and labels presented and sold their designs including clothing, jewellery and accessories.

Featured designers where:
Monique Poolmans, by Sanne Jansen, Oform, Jennifer de Bruyckère, Que Onda Vos, Fernanda Fernandes, Joelle Boers, MEES Design, Ebby Port, Lies Wambacq, Studio Mulder (Ho Mulder Design Factory), Fien de Graaf and MIJNshop / MIJNcollectie project.

Take a look at the impressions.

www.fashionclash.nl

Editorial and interview featured on Drugi Par Gaća

Jacket and trousers by Branko Popović
bike from Alley Cat Bikes & Coffee Maastricht

Fashion editorial in collaboration with the aspiring photographer Sem Shayne. Accompanied with an interview the story is featured on Drugi Par Gaća.

Photography: Sem Shayne
Stying: Branko Popovic

Joelle Boers at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

preview new collection, photo Karen Kikkert

Get to know JOELLE BOERS, who comes from the little Dutch town Geleen near Maastricht. After her studies in Graphic Design and Photography, she desired to explore the world of Fashion and Textile Design at MAFAD (Maastricht Academy Fine Arts and Design).
She has been involved in many FASHIONCLASH events and projects.
Joelle will present her debut, self-designed collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival Show Program and purchase her designs at the designer Market.
In addition she takes part at Designers in Store within festival's Side Program, her work will be presented and sold at Stijl Maastricht boutique.

How would you describe your work ? What is your technique?
From my childhood on, I had always a passion for illustrations/photography and collaging. My work is a reflection of my fascination by the aesthetics of all things: natural phenomena, technological and cultural identity. I am heavily influenced by materials and their surfaces, blending hand painting, patterns and photography, By connecting these diverse elements my label has developed a unique aesthetic. Through fabric and dexterous print design, far-reaching stories are told. Trying to show a transition from ancient cultures into a more futuristic type of beauty.

Stijl Fashion Event 2014

Stijl Fashion Event 2014

Staged in the beautiful Sint Jan Church, Stijl Maastricht organized the second edition of Stijl Fashion Eevent. The theme and of the evening and styling was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. Compared with the fist edition the ambiance appeared more glamourous.
The show is a presentation of brand new FW 2014 fashion items available in Stijl stores in Maastricht. After the show fashionista's where given the opportunity to purchase their favorite looks.
The show also featured pieces by our local emerging designer Joelle Boers. It proved that young designers work can merge very well with commercial brands.

For more information: http://www.stijlmaastricht.nl

Here are few highlights from the event and the show.

© Photography courtesy BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG

Joelle Boers & Bregje Cox at Amsterdam Fashion Week

IINUA 2014/15 collection by Joelle Boers and Bregje Cox

On Friday June 11, Joelle Boers and Bregje Cox debuted at the 21st edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week. They are not new for me, in fact I am following their careers since their studies. Both designers graduated from MAFAD (Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design).
Both designers have participated in various FASHIONCLASH projects with their individual work, in fact it is also through FASHIONCLASH that they got to know each other and started working together.

" We work very well together because we complement each other. Both of us are heavily influenced by the aesthetics of all things technological, natural phenomena and cultural identity."

I was very proud to attend their show at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and to witness talent and their growth. The collection was not enirely new to me, as they have shown a part of it during FASHIONCLASH Festival last June, however they managed to complete the collection story and add relevant styling features. This time the whole story was complete. The collection contains a great balance, variety, innovation and wearability.
IINUA is inspired by the wisdom of the mountains and the resourcefulness of the Inuit people. The Inuit believe strongly in animism; that all people, animals and geographic features such as mountains and lakes possess a spiritual essence. They translated the structures and textures of the mountains and the stones into bold prints. For the patterns they looked at the functions that Inuit garments have. By combining elements they created a collection that could be seen as a kind of stone-camouflage.

Another feature that worth mentioning where the shoes they used in the presentation. The shoes are by designer Chris van den Elzen, who they also met at FASHIONCLASH Festival.
The EXCIDIUM shoes contain a 3d printed woodpulp hightech platform wedge with a calf leather upper and a acrylic/copper heel insert. The shoe collection features ankle booties, half booties and sandals all in black and soft grey copper details, finalized with Italian zippers. This shoes where a perfect fit for this collection.

It pleases me to see talented designers that join forces and work hard on their dreams. Well done!

More information about the designers:

http://www.joelleboers.com
http://noirnearfuture.com
http://chrisvandenelzen.com

Their participation at Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Amsterdam was made possible thanks to support of Mode Maastricht (Fashion Maastricht).

ModaLisboa VISION People & Street

Impressions from ModaLisboa VISION edition; people, street style and more

FEE Academy Exposition

FEE Academy has selected eight designers who will compete with against other to become one of the FEE Academy participants.

On January 25 there (from 2 pm) is an exposition opening at FEE Concept Store in Sittard. After the exposition that will be open until February 8th a professional jury panel will select the 3 most promising designers to enter the FEE Academy.

The jury panel team consists of Kiki Niesten, Hadewych Minis, ABK Maastricht and FASHIONCLASH.

FEE Academy presents:
Kavita Bachasingh, Jolka Wiens, Sabine Staartjes, Joelle Boers, Mirte Engelhard, Jet Teunis, Lieselotte Noordover, Ine de Haes

FEE Academy is an initiative by Fee Concept Store + Cafe: http://fee-conceptstore.nl

Saturday, 9 November 2013

TAC Eindoven during DDW 2013

Joelle Boers

80 Designers. 18 Countries. No Borders. Just Passion | Zona Ventosa

TAC Eindoven presented during DDW 2013: Zona Ventosa.
Great ideas and concepts travel anywhere. Within this context of international mobility the Dutch Design philosophy has incredible momentum. Aspiring designers from all over the globe find their way to Eindhoven to study, to work and to connect. Some stay, many move on again, taking on the world with a new perspective.
Zona Ventosa zooms in on these dynamic exchanges by presenting the largest contingent of international design talents at DDW 2013.
Occupying the entire TAC building, Zona Ventosa hosts 22 exhibitions showing 80 designers from 17 countries. Participants include Wasatch Design Collective (USA), Hello Randomness (BE, DE, PT), Pepe Heykoop and Egbert-Jan Lam. One single route takes you through the maze of international design along skilfully crafted products and mesmerizing concepts. Have a look at some of the latest in material development and technical innovation and while you are at Zona Ventosa, get a new perspective on the way we consume our food! Zona Ventosa is presented by TAC Eindhoven, an international free zone for art, design & creativity hosting 60 start-up artists and creative entrepreneurs.

Participating designers
Wasatch Design Collective (US), Jorine Oosterhoff, Egbert-Jan Lam, buroJET and Fenna Oosterhoff (NL), Dik&Stijlloos (NL), Pepe Heykoop, Lex Pott , David Derksen and Paul Heijnen, Ruben Olislagers & Ontwerplabel BLOK (NL), Eugenia Morpurgo, Amélia Desnoyers, Olivia de Gouveia (IT/FR/PT), Unit 30 (Jozephine Duker and Willem Van Landeghem) (NL), Mafnes (CZ/JP), Lieke Jildou de Jong, Aliki van der Kruijs, Alei Verspoor (NL), Jinhyun Jeon, Joon Han Lee, Jiyoon Lee, Juno Jeon, Nam Yoon, Seungbin Yang, Sunyoung Park (KR), FLUID STUDIO COLLECTIVE with Plymouth University (UK), Colette Kievit (NL, )Noir near future (NL), Essyello/ Sauling Wong (NL/HK), EENVIER (Marleen de Puydt & Olivier Paar) (NL), Von Essen Design (NL), Mélanie Buatois (FR), Anouk van der Poll (NL), Elke van den Berg, Studio PS, Marie Da Cruz, Strikks, Marcel Ossendrijver, Joelle Boers, Petra Lammers, Bernadette van de Braak, Kanami Takeda, Danielle Vroemen (NL/FR/JP/), Sander Mulder (NL), Afdeling Buitengewone Zaken (NL), Laura Lynn Jansen & Thomas Vailly (NL/FR), Dutchglobe (NL) Birgit Severin, Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo, Ben Landau, Bilge Nur Saltik, Bora Hong, Matthias Borrowski, Meng Hsun WU, Tristan Girard, Vytautas Gecas (DE, FR, AU, TR, KR, TW, LT) HELLO RANDOMNESS (BE/DE/PT) Curators: Loek Daemen, Thomas Vailly, Ben Pearce

Exhibition design Loek Daemen | Stadvis creative concepts Maud van Banning | Ateliereen Architecten Mark Frerker

FASHIONCLASH Pop-up Store

FASHIONCLASH Pop-up Store open from November 1

To strengthen the Maastricht fashion industry the City of Maastricht is organizing the project Designer/Entrepreneur, a business coaching project. In seven sessions at the Institute for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Instituut voor Midden- en Kleinbedrijf (IMK)), talented young designers are being trained to become entrepreneurs with a well-developed business plan. In addition to these workshops, the designers are being supervised by an advisory team.

FASHIONCLASH Pop-up Store designers are participants in Designer/Entrepreneur project: Danielle Vroemen Jewellery, JOELLE BOERS |STUDIO, Marsha Kessels, Nawie Kuiper, Gabriel+Guevara, BRANKOPOPOVIC, Linda Friesen, ebby port, MIEK

Location:
Maastrichter Smedenstraat 5, Maastricht

http://fashionclash.nl/fashionclash-pop-up-store

Sunday, 9 June 2013

FASHIONCLASH @ Museum aan het Vrijthof exhibition

Pagan Poetry by Joelle Boers

FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF
From 5 June to 8 September 2013

Museum aan het Vrijthof launched a very special new exposition in collaboration with FASHIONCLASH: ‘FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF'.

In the five years since its founding, FASHIONCLASH Maastricht has grown into an international and interdisciplinary event, where up-and-coming designers from different fields get the chance to present their work. To celebrate this, FASHIONCLASH was asked to showcase the highlights of the past few years in an exposition at Museum aan het Vrijthof.
One can see highlights of the FASHIONCLASH Fashion Procession 2011 and work of designer Femke Agema, designer who has participated in all five edition of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht.

Museum aan het Vrijthof has also offered young designers a stage to present their designs and has challenged them to engage with 500 years Made in Maastricht. Five designers from the Meuse–Rhine Euregion were given the assignment to create new pieces inspired by the museum’s various rooms: Ann Boogaerts, Bregje Cox, Gabriel Guevara, Ingo Binder and Joelle Boers.

MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF, Vrijthof 18, Maastricht
www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl
Opening hours
Monday: 11:00 - 17:00
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-18:00

FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF was made possible with the support of the Municipality of Maastricht, the Elisabeth Strouven Foundation, the Brouwerij ‘De Ridder’ Foundation, Invito, Houben Mediatechniek and many others.

FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF

FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF 5 June to 8 September 2013

On 5 June Museum aan het Vrijthof will be launching a new, high-profile exposition in collaboration with FASHIONCLASH: ‘FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF'.

In the five years since its founding, FASHIONCLASH Maastricht has grown into an international and interdisciplinary event, where up-and-coming designers from different fields get the chance to present their work. To celebrate this, FASHIONCLASH was asked to showcase the highlights of the past few years in an exposition at Museum aan het Vrijthof. One can see highlights of the
Clash Project, FASHIONCLASH Fashion Procession 2011 and work of designer Femke Agema.

Museum aan het Vrijthof has also offered young designers a stage to present their designs and has challenged them to engage with 500 years Made in Maastricht. Five designers from the Meuse–Rhine Euregion were given the assignment to create new pieces inspired by the museum’s various rooms: Ann Boogaerts, Bregje Cox, Gabriel Guevara, Ingo Binder and Joelle Boers.

MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF
Vrijthof 18, Maastricht
www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl

Opening hours
Monday: 11:00 - 17:00
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-18:00

FASHIONCLASH @ MUSEUM AAN HET VRIJTHOF was made possible with the support of the Municipality of Maastricht, the Elisabeth Strouven Foundation, the Brouwerij ‘De Ridder’ Foundation, Invito, Houben Mediatechniek and many others.

Solar Weekend 2012

This weekend 25.000 visitors will have a blast at Solar Weekend in Roermond.
I will not be there this weekend but FASHIONCLASH was invited today for a guided tour and here is a short sneak preview. Beside music acts like Joost van Bellen and Joseph Capriati, there are also many creative initiatives from young artists and bands to be discoverd.
For everyone who is going to be there: have fun!
http://solarweekend.com

FASHIONCLASH Market #2

Here are some impressions of FASHIONCLASH Market part 2 that took place last weekend in connection to the 4th edition of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht. I have seen some very cool things.

If you want more have a look at FEE Conceptstore in Sittard of Feeshop.nl

FASHIONCLASH Market #2

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FASHIONCLASH Market #2
8, 9 & 10 June 2012

In connection with the international fashion event ‘FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012’ the extraordinary FASHIONCLASH Market is going to have its 2nd edition.

FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012 is an interdisciplinary fashion event where more than 100 promising talents from 20 countries will come together to present their creations.

FASHIONCLASH Market offers visitors the chance to browse around and discover unique clothing, accessories and design of young designers. This was FASHIONCLASH Market #1

One of the participants is very cool footwear label, Pleasemachine, from Hungary.
http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/11/pleasemachine-footwear.html

You can also buy designs from STRIKKS and Joelle Boers (read the encounter with Joelle Boers).

Encounter with textile designer Joelle Boers

Encounter with textile designer Joelle Boers who just graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht

Joelle Boers next to her work

-Can you tell us something about your graduation project and collection?

As a child I was always fascinated by nature, that’s why I was inspired for my graduation concept by the seabirds around the “plastic soup” area’s in the Pacific Ocean, which are threatened with extinction, because of all the garbage, plastics and other toxic material that ruins the ocean and the life within,
Using my own photography, detailed with old plastics, metals and other materials, I developed my own kind of “garbage”, old wasted things that took my attention, and used them in my prints.
In my work I play with a mix of geometric shapes and weird material in a bold way. My final collection consists a book of digital printed silk fashion fabrics, a wearable fashion collection based on digital designs mixed with other materials, fashion objects and techniques.