TVDB - FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019

Tom Van der Borght has a history of leaving impressions at FASHIONCLASH Festival. This year was no different. In fact, his impressive show earned him the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019 Talent award and the Clash Show Public Award.
Currently at a master programme at Toneelacademie Maastricht, Tom is a multi-talented transdisciplinary artist playing with the boundaries of fashion, art, illustration and performance. In his ongoing artistic research process, he goes on a quest to challange normativity. Being queer and disabled himself, intersectionality is at the core of his work. With his peresentation at FASHIONCLASH Festival he explored the performative elements further. Hi impressed not only with the performance but also with the craftsmanship and the layered narrative.

"Our technology-based society is built on likes, and sharing “our happy life”. We deal with negative things in solitude. In such moments we crave for connection and community as an antidote for loneliness and exclusion. TVDB develops a series of 7 rituals in search for new ways of collectivity, based on 7 stages of his own life. This research explores non-normative bodies on the intersection of fashion, performance and visual art. The first ritual of 7, Act 01: a Safe Cocoon is a low-tech procession that explores the tension between wearing and being worn, between carrying and being carried. 7 outfits are created out of 7 materials. 7 is and will always be a magic number."

http://tomvanderborght.com

Photography Pasarella Photography

FAB Pop-Up Store Hasselt

FAB Pop-Up Store 
Hasselt (Belgium) 
15 November 2014 – 15 January 2015 

Location: Kapelstraat 45, Hasselt

FAB Pop-Up Store is back! After successful editions in Hasselt (2011), Maastricht (2012), Aachen (2013), FAB Pop-Up Store returns in Hasselt and opens for the 4th time.

Fashion Across Borders npo (FAB), is a collaboration between Fashion Museum Hasselt, FASHIONCLASH (Maastricht) and Designmetropole Aachen. This Euregional fashion platform was founded to support fashion talent and the fashion industry within the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. FAB enables emerging talents to show the world what they are capable of with a fabulous FAB Pop-Up store. The FAB pop-up store will open in Kapelstraat 45 Hasselt from the 15th of November 2014 until the 15th of January 2015.

Quality vs. Quantity – Unique design “made in the Euregion” 
The FAB Pop-up Store gives emerging talents a platform to showcase and sell their products in a temporary shop. After previous editions in Hasselt (2011), Maastricht (2012) and Aachen (2013), the FAB Pop-Up store returns to Hasselt this fall. Visitors can discover fascinating jewellery, clothing and accessories. Exclusive design and quality!

Tom Van der Borght
at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

Who’s with me? – Participating designers 
During previous editions, rising fashion labels such as Sofie Claes, Lena Berens and Hui Hui were among the participants. FAB gave them a chance to showcase their creations in a contemporary setting. And this year isn’t an exception: the FAB pop-up store brings you some authentic products from marvellous labels from the Euregion Meuse-Rhine such as Tom van Der Borght (BE), Monique Poolmans (NL), Hui Hui (DE), Bernadette Van de Braak (NL), No more twist (BE), Hanne de Wyngaert (BE), STRIKKS (NL) and many more.

The most wonderful time of the year 
You can visit the FAB Pop-Up store from the 15th of November 2014 until the 15th of January 2015, a perfect moment to support these young designers. What do you think about some handmade jewellery for Christmas? Or an exclusive dress for a fashionable New Year’s Eve?

Meet & Greet and styling session 
Are you curious about the stories behind the participating designers? Have you always wanted to know what their motives are and how their production process is put together? Do you dream of becoming a designer yourself one day? Come and join us for a Meet & Greet with the fabulous FAB designers on Saturday, the 13th of December from 11:00 – 13:00. Whilst listening to their stories, you can enjoy some local snacks and drinks.
Keep an eye on the FAB website and make sure you register in time because the places are limited! Would you rather have some personal styling advice from the one and only Linda Van Waesberge?
Sign up for our styling session on which will take place on the 18th of December 2014. Linda will help you choose the perfect collection piece or accessory for your body type between 11:00 – 13:00. You’ll find more information about the styling session on the FAB website. Sign up quickly, because the places are limited!

ebby port at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

B-Made 

About Fashion Across Borders
Fashion Across Borders npo (FAB) is a collaboration between Fashion Museum Hasselt, FASHIONCLASH Foundation (Maastricht) and Designmetropole Aachen. FAB wants to reinforce the fashion industry in the Euro region Meuse-Rhine by bringing people together who work in the field of fashion in a creative, economic or educational way. FAB wants to enlarge the visibility of fashion in the Euro region Meuse-Rhine.

Hanne De Wyngaert

Address: FAB Pop-Up Store Kapelstraat 45 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

Opening times:
From Saturday November 15, 2014 until Thursday January 15, 2015
From Tuesday until Saturday 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday shopping: Sunday December 14, 2014 and Sunday December 21, 2014 from 12:00 – 17:00

With the support of the European Regional Development Fund and the People-to-people-program of INTERREG Euro region Meuse-Rhine. The European Commission invests in your future.

Tyson Ernste

http://www.fashionacrossborders.com

Wool Week Antwerp

Fashion journalist Veerle Windels curated an exhibition with work of designers that use wool in their designs such as Christian Wijnants (winner of the Woolmark Prize in 2013), Tim Van Steenbergen, Walter Van Beirendonck, Kim Stumpf, Anna Heylen, Jan-Jan Van Essche, Damien Fredriksen Ravn, Ilja Frunt, Ann Demeulemeester, Jantine Van Peski, Tom Van der Borght and Stephan Schneider.

Two third- year bachelor students from the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Woojic Jo and Laure Severac, were selected to enter a silhouette because of their interesting use of wool.

Wool Week Antwerp takes place from October 22 - 30
Location: WM Gallery, Wolstraat 45 in Antwerp

Credits for images:
Tom Van der Borght masks for Wool Week Antwerp for the Woolmark Company

Photography  by Alexander Popelier
Graphics by Tom Van der Borght
Model: Shako Nikva
http://www.campaignforwool.org

Menswear at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

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While spring/summer 2015 menswear collections are hitting Milan, London and Paris runways it pleases me to share menswear collection that where presented during the 6th FASHIONCLASH Festival. Menswear collections where very strong this year, also when the collections where mixed with womenswear.

Here is an overview of menswear collections. 
All images are by BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG

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

FASHIONCLASH Pop - Up Store at De Bijenkorf Maastricht

FASHIONCLASH Maastricht celebrates its 5th edition and therefore the fashion event will last for nine days this year. Besides the regular program including fashion shows, exhibition and perform- ances, an extensive Side Program is taking place with pop-up shops, exhibition and workshops.
One of the pop-up stores is the FASHIONCLASH pop-up store at de Bijenkorf Maastricht with Belgian designers Black Balloon, Pierre Antoine Vettorello and Tom Van der Borght.
www.fashionclash.nl

Tom Van der Borght

COC is ALL, COC is LOVE, will KILL for COC!

Personal, daring and stunning COC 'Church of Chica' collection by Tom Van der Borght. The collection was presented during the first edition of Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

The main inspiration for this collection was manipulation. More specifically the aim was to create the image and illusion of a cult, as it symbolises manipulation in it's most extreme way. Looking for an icon to build the cult around, I ended up with my own dog, Chica. The Church of Chica was born. When you flip around the word "dog", it becomes "god".  So i found the perfect reason to make my rescued mixed breed dog, lookin as an anti-hero,  the symbol of a new found path to happiness (and finally destruction). The collection tells the story how a cult works: starting from love, softness and positive images, going over brainwashing and fear and ending in total mania, terrorism, destruction. Worship will rescue us all. As i was very much influenced by ancient Mexican artwork and narci street fashion, the look of the collection is one of a Neon-Indians tribe, warriors of the light. 

On a more personal level, this collection tells my very own story: through artwork and self developped 

prints some major elements of my identity are displayed. Not only the use of my very own dog as an icon, 

but also the choice of printing microscopic images of the heriditary muscular disease i'm suffering from 

myself, on the outside of clothes, are giving a deeper insight in my oovercome/manipulate difficult parts of my own life into strengths. 

In a way u could say the whole collection is an encouragment to more self-worship and connection with our own selves. 

Tom Van der Borght is based in GENT, Belgium but he's roots are in Bilzen (Limburg - Belguim). He studied at Stedelijke Academie Voor Schone Kunsten Sint Niklaas. His collections are produced in Belgium.
http://www.tomvanderborght.com/

First edition of Berlin Fashion Film Festival

Report, text and impression images are by Anne-Luise Gerlach 


It’s here again - The time of Fashion Weeks all around the globe. This week the Berlin Fashion Week started and on this occasion Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2012 was initiated. The first edition of Berlin Fashion Film Festival was kicked off yesterday, 3rd of July, with the official screenings of the finalists and I had the pleasure of going and experiencing it firsthand.

Berlin Fashion Film Festival presents fashion in an innovative way, combining film with fashion presentations, whilst grouping together outstanding film directors, emerging fashion talent and influential characters of the international creative scene. A selection of fashion films, curated by Vogue.it, Esmod Berlin, Sugarhigh, FIER management, and Furore, and additionally selected through an online open call were screened and awarded according to different categories.
  The categories were assessed by an international jury, which included Diane Pernet for Best Fashion Film, Yann Le Goec for Best Fashion, Johan Renck for Best Cinematography, Till Diestel for Best Idea, and Oliver Koletzki for Best Music. 
Berlin Fashion Film Festival returns fashion to its creative origins, supporting emerging talent by exploring fashion through cinema. It is simply an alternative and refreshing way of seeing fashion in a different context.