Emina Sljivic

Emina Sljivic is born in Serbia, she is based in Barcelona where graduated from IED, Instituto Europeo Di Design, in 2012. She was one of the finalists at Modafed competition for emerging young designers.

http://emina-sljivic.tumblr.com/

Beyond the Body by Imme van der Haak

My work focuses on altering the human form by affecting its figure with just one simple intervention. Photos of the human body are printed onto translucent silk which will create the possibility of physically layering different body’s, ages, generations and identities. In a dance performance, the moving body manipulates the fabric so the body and the silk become one, distorting our perception or revealing a completely new physical form. The movement then brings this to life. Beyond the body brings into being an ambiguous image that intrigues, astonishes or sometimes even disturbs. 

Imme van der Haak is born in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She graduated in 2010 from Artez, the academy of arts.  (check Artez 2010 graduation report). Following this, she moved to London for a master in Product Design at London’s Royal College of Art where she graduated in 2012.
http://www.immevanderhaak.nl/


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Yirantian Guo

Yirantian Guo graduated from London Collage of Fashion in 2012 with this 'UN-’ 2012 S/S collection.

The concept of ‘UN-’ (Unconventional combinations) is to combine every possible unconventional element that presents the reality and illusion.
It was taken from an unusual viewpoint of fashion in terms of garments and accessories.
‘UN-’ collection focuses on the combination of the technique and material.

Inspired by cubism, breaking-up the original object and recombining to shape a new form is the starting point and then developing through the reflection accessories, deconstruction and asymmetric silhouette to achieve the concept.

Words and images: Courtesy of Yirantian Guo

Check this link for more divine fashion ♥'s http://yirantian.tumblr.com/

Taeseok Kang

Sexual Humorous 
This collection explores narratives of sexual human body and addresses the question of palpable sensations that manifest from the sexual instinct of a human being and the range of sexiness from subtle to extreme.
http://taesokkang.viewbook.com/

Design For The Real World at RCA London

While I was in London at RCA 'Fashioning the City' conference I got the opportunity to visit the exhibition of MA design graduates at RCA.
It started off with a coincidence that I bumped into Alei Versppor, one of the MA textiles graduates, that I met in a project in Fortaleza (Brazil 2006) and FASHIONCLASH Brazil project. Alei Verspoor graduated with a strong concept PACK! for which she is also awarded with Sustain Award RCA 2012. 
Beside Alei Verspoor's project I found more projects with very intersting, and as the name implies relevant design concepts. 'Design for the real world' - Design can change the world.

Design for the real world
As part of the 2012 London Design Festival, the College is hosting the exhibition Design for the Real World, which takes its inspiration from the 40th anniversary of the English-language publication of Victor Papanek’s seminal text, Design for the Real World. In 1972, at a time of rampant consumerism, Papanek made a powerful case for the importance of inclusive and sustainable design in meeting the real needs of people. This exhibition explores both aspects of Papanek’s legacy. A presentation of 15 projects by Research Associates from the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) will showcase inclusive and human-centred design. This year’s projects include a community lighting project in Tower Hamlets; making roadworks safer for people with sight loss; reducing incidents of violence in A&E hospital departments; a redesign of the doctor’s bag and practical solutions for making offices more sustainable. SustainRCA, the cross-College centre for sustainability, will present a selection of sustainable design concepts by recent RCA graduates including new ideas for fashion, textiles, home products and transport. 
http://www.rca.ac.uk/

Parkin'son by Giulio D'Anna

Parkin'son by Giulio D'Anna is awarded with Dioraphte Dansprijs during the 15th edition of the Dutch Dance Festival 2012. It's an award for a dance performance with most international ambition. I have no idea who was in the running for the award but this for sure the performance that impressed me the most.

"The jury is very much impressed with the way he expresses a very rich, but also complex theme in a very pure, powerful and clear form. Giulio D’Anna presents a very personal theme in a universal way. Therefore he is able to communicate and inspire many different people. Parkin’son is touching, inspiring and honest." 

Stefano is 63, a therapist and has Parkinson’s Disease. Giulio is 32, a choreograph, and Stefano’s son. One body ‘embodies’ the future; the other, the past. Parkin’son brings the relationship between father and son to the stage. Personal incidents and shared histories, far-reaching or trivial, seep through their skin. Together they tell the story of the unique bond between parent and child. Their bodies speak of matters never discussed, their mouths share memories of happiness and sadness. A production about growing old and staying young, about cars and a bit about Jimmy Fontana.

Concept & direction: Giulio D´Anna
Performance: Giulio D´Anna, Stefano D´Anna
http://www.giuliodanna.com

Point Cloud by Joeri Dubbe and Tom Visser

The earth has evolved, from the Big Bang to where we are now. And humanity is also still developing. In Point Cloud, we see a man with knowledge and conviction. But he has doubts. In an attempt to find the truth, he allows himself to be swallowed up by his self-created world, his little universe, and he pulls us in as well. Joeri Dubbe played with credibility in this installation and up-ends our perspective on life. 

The up and coming young choreographer Joeri Dubbe received the Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht prize last year. As part of that prize, his latest production, Point Cloud, premiered at the festival this year.  Point Cloud is an installation of dance, images, sound and compact extraordinary scenery. Point Cloud is a 15 min. lasting visual spectacle that makes you long for more.
More about Joeri Dubbe.

Choreography: Joeri Dubbe
Concept: Joeri Dubbe and Tom Visser
Lighting and software: Tom Visser
Dance: Miquel Oliveira
Producer: Korzo Producties
Co-producer: Huis van Bourgondië

Secrets Revealed / Conny Janssen Danst

In this years program of the Dutch Dance Festival (Nederlandse Dansdagen), various choreographers opened their studio doors for the public.
During the making of a work, dancers sweat behind closed doors, rehearsals are not accessible to the public and they are often surrounded by an air of mystery. Unpolished diamonds to be considered without lighting, sound and costume. This was an unique chance to see new work in the making and to meet dancers and choreographers.


I attended 'HOW LONG IS NOW' by Conny Janssen Danst where we meet ten dancers who have built a refuge for themselves in the middle of a transient and harsh world. De Machinefabriek in Vlissingen (premiere August 2012) and the historic tram depot in Rotterdam (premiere November 2012) caught Conny Janssen’s eye for her latest site-specific project.

www.connyjanssendanst.nl

ROCCO - Emio Greco | PC

15th edition of Dutch Dance Festival took place last weekend. For me personally it could not have started better than with the energetic performance around a boxing ring at'ROCCO' by Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten. ROCCO is also awarded with the 'Swan for the most impressive dance production' at the Gala of the Dutch Dance Festival 2012.

We sit round a boxing ring and watch dancers who box and boxers who dance. The men share and stake out their territory, they show their body and their strengths to fight for their right to exist. The boxing match is the world in which the other can be admitted or rejected. Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten were inspired for ROCCO by the film Rocco e i suoi fratelli by Luchino Visconti about brotherly love and the struggle for a better life. ‘Imprisoned in the ring, clustered in the light, we recognise all the possible relationships between people.’ 

Choreography: Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten
Dance: Victor Callens, Dereck Cayla, Vincent Colomes, Christian Guerematchi www.ickamsterdam.com

Tilda Swinton in The Impossible Wardrobe

Christoff von Drecoll coat, 1905

The Impossible Wardrobe: A Two Centuries Of Fashion History starring Tilda Swinton

Devine Tilda Swinton stars in “The Impossible Wardrobe,” a performance-art piece that premiered on Saturday night at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The installation of "The Impossible Wardrobe" is the idea of the museum's director Olivier Saillard,  who acts as Swinton's on-stage assistant, handing her wrapped dresses, coats and accessories to unfurl and display.
For the show, staged over three days at the Palais de Tokyo modern art museum, Saillard chose 57 dresses, coats and accessories, many by the greatest names in fashion history: Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristobal Balenciaga, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior or Pierre Balmain.

 "The performance was born of a taboo -- you cannot wear the clothes that we store in our museums," Saillard told AFP. "But you can bear them, gently in your arms," he said -- playing on the twin meanings of the French word "porter", which means both to wear and to carry.

Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to GaGa

Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga. UK design for performance 2007–2011

As part of the V&A’s British Design Season, this display in the Theatre and Performance Galleries taking place March 17 – September 30 will celebrate the work of over 30 of the most pioneering British theatre designers, architects and artists to have created for performance over the last four years.
The selected works on show will range from costumes for live opera and drama to video projections for stadium music concerts and will illustrate how each designer looks for new ways to transform space, light, sound and body for the stage.

Anthony Ward

Transformation and Revelation will feature drawings, photographs, scale models and costumes, as well as sound, lighting and multi-media installations to present the distinct personal vision and inspiration of each of the designers. Each display case will give a behind-the-scenes insight into the creative processes of each designer – from initial idea, early sketches and models to the final creation for live performance. A number of display cases will also be exhibited amongst the V&A collections, sited in the Paintings Gallery, within the Tapestry Gallery and along the Leighton Corridor.

Some of the highlights featured in the display will include Rae Smith’s original drawings for the digital projections in the National Theatre’s West End production of War Horse (2007), Antony Gormley’s preparatory sketches for the dance work Sutra produced by Sadler’s Wells (2008), a scale model of Ralph Koltai’s theatre designs for An English Tragedy (2008) and photographs and models of Es Devlin’s creations for Lady Gaga’s Monsterball Tour (2009-2010). Work by internationally recognised designers Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Bob Crowley, Richard Hudson and Paul Brown will also be shown alongside emerging British talents such as Hyemi Shin, overall winner of the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design (2011).


http://www.vam.ac.uk

15th edition of the Dutch Dance Festival

It is almost time for the15th edition of the Dutch Dance Festival.
On 5, 6 and 7 October, the festival is presenting the most important developments in Dutch dance, in some amazing, unforgettable and striking dance performances created in the Netherlands. In a single weekend, there will be performances by the well-known dance companies and by new names, with big hits alongside works in the making, and a whole range of events for audiences to enjoy – from urban dance to classical ballet.

For the past seven years I have always attended the festival. This weekend I will try again to see a much as possible.

Info & program: http://www.nederlandsedansdagen.nl

United Colors

Likeme(N) by Gertjan van der Linden 
Gertjan van der Linden teamed up with photographer Sas Terpstra for this publication in Institute Magazine. In this shoot you can see the 'Social End-tity' collection that Gertjan van der Linden, designer behind Likeme(N) label, presented at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012.
http://www.likeme-n.com/

Eleanor Amoroso at Runway Malta

 

http://eleanoramoroso.com/

F.A.B designers at Runway Malta

Julia Schaetz

Promising designers from the Euregion Meuse-Rhine rocked the catwalk at Runway Malta last weekend.
One of them was Julia Schaetz, the winner of F.A.B / Runway Malta competition at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012.
Ann Boogaerts, the winner of Lichting 2009 presented her stunning new collection and Brian Geradts his successful graduation collection.

Fashion Across Borders is an initiative of Fashion Museum Hasselt (Belgium), FASHIONCLASH (Maastricht) and Designmetropole Aachen (Germany). 
http://www.fashionacrossborders.com

F.A.B / FASHIONCLASH collaboration with Runway Malta is supported by Maastricht VIA2018 and Valletta 2018.

http://www.runwaymalta.com/