Toegepast 16: Les Nouveaux

picture by Kristof Vrancken

LES NOUVEAUX
For the sixteenth time in a row, Design Platform Limburg offers the chance to talented designers to develop their work and theirselves.
Coached once again by the fashion designer duo Ti + Hann.
Out of fourty kandidates, five recently graduated designers were selected to showcase brand new work (a part of) their universe in Z33.
A diversity of disciplines are shown: graphical design, jewellery design and product design. Overall great presentations and very nice work from all designers.

Toegepast 16: Les Nouveaux can be viewed in an exhibitions from October 30, 2011 to February 5, 2012 in Z33, Hasselt. http://www.z33.be

Opening of FAB STORE in Hasselt

Last night, Fashion Across Borders (FAB) has opened the doors of a unique store in Hasselt.
Young designers from the Meuse-Rhine region are displaying and selling their designs in the shopping gallery 'De Wate Vrienden', located in the heart of the city on the Grote Markt (Grand Market). In the FAB-store you can find unique fashion, jewellery and accessoires by young designers.
FAB STORE is just FABULOUS! The whole team has worked hard to make it happen. Laurens Hamacher of FASHIONCLASH made the store look great.
FAB store Hasselt is open from Wednesday till Saturday from November 4th 2011 utill June 1st 2012.

Participants: IXX, TITI+German Kid, sO mINE*, B-MADE, Céline Pinckers, PYG, Veronica Vartic, Lore Langendries, Ingo Binder, Linda Maissan, Irene Heldens, Delphine Quirin, Aicha Gerards, Titi and the German Kid, Hui Hui and more.

This is also the first official FAB project. Fashion Across Borders is an initiative of Fashion Museum Hasselt, FASHIONCLASH (Maastricht) and Designmetropole Aachen. FAB is supported by collaboration with MAD-Faculty, City of Hasselt service for local economy, with the support of real estate office Wallter and Maastricht VIA2018.

Follow FAB on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FashionAcrossBorders

C-mine pop-up shop

The design center of C-Mine is from September to December 2011 a place where you can find a pop-up shop with work by young designers. C-mine pop-up shop is home to three platforms that are showing and selling new work force. The pop-up shop is open until 31 December '11, every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 14 hours to 19 hours. http://www.cminepopupshop.be/



The C-mine pop up shop is an initiative of Creative Drive, a project by city Genk and Design Platform Limburg, in collaboration with the Faculty MAD and funded by Interreg IV A EMR.

Last Friday, 16th of September the C-Mine Pop Up Shop has opened doors for public. It was a very nice evening. Lot of designers I allready knew but overall it was all very well presented.
Surprise was the work of Noortje de la Haye and the shoes by Honeylon.
At the opening there was also a very interesting lecture by Nalden.
Nalden, founder of WE transfer and international Nalden.net blog, will talked about his fascinating insights into personal branding and how to make business more successful.

The pop-up shop is open until 31 December '11, every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 14 hours to 19 hours. http://www.c-minepopupshop.be/