Polimoda Duets Series

Polimoda launches documentary series with cultural icons, starting with Marina Abramović

Polimoda has launched Polimoda Duets, a series of documentary interview videos with icons of contemporary culture, whose first installment features pioneer and founder of performance art Marina Abramović. With this new project, the fashion institute opens its doors to the worlds of art, music, cinema and modern culture, broadening its collaboration with key industry figures – currently ranging from the Polimoda Rendez-Vous series to the Fashion Discussion panel discussions – with a new exclusive video format. In each episode, a global cultural legend will be interviewed by a select interlocutor – from top journalists to scholars and experts in the field – to discuss key themes of contemporary society.

Sangue Novo - ModaLisboa Multiplex

Victor Huarte

The fashion show schedule of the ModaLisboa - Multiplex edition kicked off on Friday evening with Sangue Novo (New Blood) platform. Ten young designers where selected to show their collection, among them the FASHIONCLASH Festival talent Pu Tianqu from China. Since several editions, the platform has been broadened to include international designers, making it an exciting mix. 
On behalf of FASHIONCLAH, I had the pleasure to meet all the designers and choose one as winner of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019. Making the decision was not easy! All candidates presented interesting proposals. Eventually there can be only one winner and this Carolina Raquel was named winner.
Her collection ‘induviae’ explores meaningless and meaningful relationships between ourselves and our garments. By elevating them to the core object of debate, ‘induviae’ ponders new meanings about garments as personal objects and, consequently as a valuable depository of memory.
The Co.Re designer duo won the The Feeting Room prize. Their collection 'Modern Daze' is is inspired by the growing epidemic of anxiety. They aim to show a glimpse of the syndrom and how it restricts the people who live with it daily.

Six designer where selected by the jury for the Sangue Novo Award which gives the the opportunity to show their collection in March 2019. Each of them received a monet prize of 1000 euros to develop their new collection. The same jury will elect the ModaLisboa Sangue Novo prize winner in partnership with Polimoda. The winner will receove a 5000 euros scholarship  and will have the opportunity to attend Polimoda Master in fashion design in Florence.
The six finalists are Carolina Raquel, Opiar, Rita Carvalho, Federico Protto, Rita Carvalho and Archie Dickens.

Certainly, worth mentioning is Saskia Lenaerts who will proceed her path at the MA at Central Saint Martins. She presented 'Rare Fruit' collection that stands for diversity, a stating that nowadays everybody is a hybrid. The collection is based on the remaining effects of colonialism.
"This collection is based in the remaining effects of colonialism. It questions the sustainability of the global garment circulation and simultaneously, challenges and raises humanitarian issues concerning decolonization and otherness, as I believe the two are undeniable intertwined."
Last but not least, the one-to-watch- Spanish designer Victor Huarte, whose collection Britannia is inspired by the celebration of 4th of July at Eton school ships procession in England. Presenting a playful reinterpretation of folklore and experimenting with mens/womenswear clothing codes.

https://modalisboa.pt

Carolina Raquel

i-Classics – Empty Minds

philharmonie zuidnednederland x FASHIONCLASH x playField. 

On 11th October i-Classics Empty Minds premiered at Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, followed by a performance at Complex in Maastricht. Rather than leaning back the audience become a part of a complete new experience of music, fashion design and video in a performance accompanied by more than 50 musicians.

In the past ten years, FASHIONCLASH has developed as an innovative interdisciplinary platform known for the many clashes. Special collaboration projects have been developed in which fashion clashed with theater, dance, film and art. philharmonie zuidnednederland x FASHIONCLASH is maybe not the expected cooperation, but this is exactly what FASHIONCLASH aspires. By placing fashion design in a different context, questioning fashion, discovering fashion in the broadest form of the word, new fashion narratives are born and encounters are born.
For this project FASHIONCLASH has invited the playField. collective to develop a concept and direct the play in which public participation is a guiding principle. In addition, jewellery designer and prop maker Minou Lejeune is invited to design a hat that will be part of the audience experience.

i-Classics Empty Minds is a production by philharmonie zuidnednederland, in collaboration with playField. and FASHIONCLASH.

Credits
Conductor: Erik Bosgraaf and Wim Henderickx
Recorder: Erik Bosgraaf
Sounddesign: Jorrit Tamminga
Concept, direction, scenography: playField.
Hat design: Minou Lejeune
In cooperation with: FASHIONCLASH

Compositions: Fiumara Desprez XL, Henderickx Empty Mind I
Special thanks to: Joost Horward (Karmijnrood Podiumkunst), hat production volunteers (Brenda Prins, Arnold Kuiper, Finnie Kuiper, Tiel Janssen, Ans Limpens)

Supported by: BNG Fonds, Europe Direct

Take a look at the photo report.
All images by brankopopovicblog

Fashion Makes Sense Award 2018

FASHIONCLASH presents the second edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award. 10 promising young sustainable designers are selected and are in the running to win the jury award and the public award. You can see the designs up close at the exhibition at the Bijenkorf in Maastricht until October 7th. If you can't make it you can also vote online: here
 

After the first edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award in 2017 (watch 2017 aftermovie) it was clear that sustainability is a vivid topic amongst young designers and that they gladly take the responsibility for sustainable fashion design. Applications from all over the world flooded our inbox again. That is why FASHIONCLASH decided to develop Fashion Makes Sense Award further as a returning annual project. FMSA is intended on the one hand to stimulate promising fashion talent to reflect on sustainability and to offer support in the development of a responsible collection and on the other hand to make a wide audience aware of issues related to sustainability.

Backstage/Frontstage - Modemuseum Hasselt

The exhibition Backstage / Frontstage, that is open from 22nd September 2018 to the 17th of March 2019 at the Hasselt Fashion Museum, offers a look behind the scenes of the fashion shows phenomena.
In the backstage, a place that the public rarely sees, magic arises: models, stylists, make-up artists and designers are united in one creative hub that works towards the start of the show. The backstage images of the photographer Marleen Daniëls are the reason for the exhibition. Daniel's images, photographed largely analogue and dating from the period 1988-2008, are unique memories of a time when shows were accessible only to a select audience. Using video, photography and silhouettes from leading designers and fashion houses such as Dries Van Noten, Yohji Yamamoto, Dior and John Galliano you will be guided through the backstage of the iconic fashion shows and fashion scene.

www.modemuseumhasselt.be

Superstition - Marres

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Marres Superstition exhibition 
22 september - 25 november

When you spill salt, do you throw some over your shoulder? Do you knock on wood when you want something good to happen or blow out birthday candles after making a wish? What about stepping on sidewalk cracks, killing spiders, shattering mirrors and opening an umbrella indoors?

Curator, artist and magic thinker Erich Weiss assembled a wonderful cast for this subject: Nina Beier & Simon Dybbroe Møller, Otto Berchem, Pierre Bismuth, Santiago Borja, Ulla von Brandenburg, Stefan Brüggemann, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Keren Cytter, Uri Geller, Joachim Koester, Germaine Kruip, Nils Nova, Joanna Piotrowska, John Stezaker and Mungo Thomson.

Artists have always had a fascination with phenomena that defy rational explanation. The surrealists were obsessed with the analysis and creative possibilities of dream states. Authors including Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Alan Ginsberg explored (sometimes with help of drugs) the boundaries between reality and fiction. Directors Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovski captured the way superstition informed the imagination and consciousness.

Text courtesy of Marres, images brankopopovicblog.
 www.marres.org

Craig Green Windmills - AW18 Campaign

Craig Green AW18 Campaign
Photography Dan Tobin Smith
Styling Robbie Spencer

Following the flaming sculptures of Spring/Summer 2018, British designer Craig Green has unveiled the campaign images for his Fall/Winter 2018 collection.
This season’s campaign features 13 meters high 'windmill' constructions erected on a cliff’s edge. Windmills as a poetic metaphor of the past that meets the future, instruments of yesterday that thanks to wind energy have become tomorrow.

“I have always thought that windmills are interesting – something that existed in the past as a vital industrial machine powered by nature, a kind of very early use of sustainable energy-powered production,” Craig Green.

Craig Green for Moncler Genius SS 2019

The Craig Green Spring/Summer 2019 collaboration with Moncler was presented during Milan Fashion Week.

Be Ready - Milan Fashion Week SS/19

The Milan-based production company The Blink Fish returns with the latest fashion film produced for the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber of Italian Fashion).

Shot to celebrate Milan Fashion Week SS/19 (18-24 September, 2018), Be Ready sees Ukrainian model Nastya Timos determined to be in top shape for the upcoming Milanese fashion season. Frantically trying on outfits, rehearsing for selfies and relentlessly working out, the result is a humorous and light-hearted interpretation of the excitement taking place during fashion week and the preparation involved.

As is customary for the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, Be Ready supports the local design scene by featuring a wide range of brands based in Italy, from emerging to more established, namely Arthur Arbesser, Gabriele Colangelo, GCDS, Giannico, Lucio Vanotti, Marco de Vincenzo, Paula Cademartori, Sara Battaglia, Stella Jean and Vivetta.

The Blink Fish and the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana have been collaborating since 2016, developing an increasingly strong online presence with fresh and relevant video content with each fashion season. Some of their most recent works, such as Start the Buzz and Waiting Room, have been internationally recognised and selected by several film festivals, including Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival and the Muse Creative Awards.


About The Blink Fish 
Founded in 2012, The Blink Fish is a creativity and production company with a wide range of young talents and projects under its wing. The company focuses primarily on fashion films, commercials, music videos, short films and documentary films, taking care of the whole video production, from creativity to post-production and distribution phases. The Blink Fish has won numerous awards at international film festivals, praised for their ability to turn concepts into high quality images, making emotions visible, and giving tangible shape to abstract thoughts.

Lichting 2018

Ferry Schiffelers

On Friday 7 September, AMFI [Amsterdam Fashion Institute Amsterdam] graduate Ferry Schiffelers won Lichting 2018, the prize for upcoming fashion talent. In a catwalk show, in the middle of Museumplein in Amsterdam, 14 fashion graduates presented their graduation collections to national and international fashion professionals. Although all 14 designers showed promising proposals, the jury panel chose Ferry Schiffelers, the most promising talent in the Netherlands. He won the Lichting 2018 Award worth € 10,000, made available by the Meester Koetsier Foundation.

With his Défilé De Deuil collection Ferry combines his fascination for rituals around funerals and his great love for feminine beauty. By linking this vision to Victorian mourning portraits, in which widows were portrayed in extremely elaborate mourning dresses, he created a modern group portrait in which different generations of women show the power of femininity.

The winner of the Lichting 2018 Award was chosen by a renowned international panel consisting of Alvise Bullo [Junior Research Manager Creative Talents LVMH Fashion Group], Christopher New [Course Leader BA Fashion Menswear and Fashion Program Academic Quality Coordinator Central Saint Martins], Filep Motwary [Independent curator and author, photographer, fashion features editor Dapper Dan Magazine], Gry Nissen [Creative Director].

The 14 finalists of Lichting 2018 are: Berend Brus, Pia Walter, Nathan Klein, Jasmijn Taken, Timothy Scholten, Yuki Ito, Sonia Oet & Line Arngaard, Yaroslav Glazunov, Jessica van Halteren, Rena Jansen, Nina Pen, Maria van Steenoven, Mathieu Jonker.

Lichting is an initiative of HTNK and Amsterdam Fashion Week. Lichting was launched in 2007 and each year the best graduate collection of the country gets awarded. Each school out of seven Dutch fashion academies sends out two graduates, who get to show selection of five outfits on the runway during Amsterdam Fashion Week. Prior to the show, they have to present and defend their work in front of an international jury. 

More information: www.lichting.nl

Viktor & Rolf - Kunsthal Rotterdam

For the past 25 years the collaboration between Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren has led to extraordinary fashion creations of timeless beauty. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Viktor&Rolf, the Kunsthal organizes a large exhibition in collaboration with the Dutch designers and Canadian curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot.

The exhibition ‘Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years’ shows Viktor&Rolf’s radical conception of ‘wearable art’ and explores the elements that make their designs unique in the contemporary fashion world.
Throughout their illustrious career, they have carved a contradictory identity that pushes the boundaries between art and fashion, often contrasting romance and rebellion, exuberance and control, classicism and conceptualism. Around sixty works from Viktor&Rolf’s haute couture collections give an insight into their unconventional and conceptual approach, also showing that they have never shied away from criticising the fashion industry (of which they are a part themselves). With regard to form and materials – the interplay of lines, volumes, bows, collars, ruffles etcetera – their creations are stunningly beautiful and technically perfect.

The exhibition is open from May 27 until September 30.
More information here: kunsthal.nl

Picture report: brankopopovicblog

The Third Space - Krisztina de Châtel

The Third Space - Space and Spaciality in the works of Krisztina de Châtel

9 September – 14 October
- At Bureau Europa in Maastricht

Bureau Europa in cooperation with Nederlandse Dansdagen present The Third Space exhibition.
This exh
This exhibition is organized on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the choreographer Krisztina de Châtel, who made more than 70 choreographies and two dance films in the last 35 years. 
Krisztina de Châtel has build up an impressive and influential oeuvre that is partly
determined by the combination of her choreographies and their spatial dimension. Just as the dancers in her choreographies are influenced by the spatial conditions of the environment in which they dance, the visitor will also experience this physically during a visit to The Third Space.

With this exhibition Bureau Europa contributes to the dialogue about the relationship between dance, choreography, scenography and architecture. In addition, this project opens a perspective for the presentation of dance in a museum context. Wouldn't it be great if there was a dance museum?

More information about the exhibition:here

All images by brankopopovicblog.

EA11SV - FW 2018 Campaign

The Croatian based label E.A. 1/1 S.V. came up with an original campaign for their Fall/Winter 2018 campaign. They let the models take selfies of themselves in an Instagram-like setting while wearing pieces from their collection.
This is an interesting example on how contemporary fashion designers are playing with the opportunities that the technology of the internet has provided. In this case, there is a game with the voyeuristic and to a certain extend sexualised character of social media and fashion marketing in which a possible target group is directly involved, and eventually addressed.

E.A. 1/1 S.V. is a Croatian based studio offering products, ideas and research in a field of textile and fashion. The Studio in Zagreb consists of a few people who work with Silvio Vujicic on these experiments.

More information: www.ea11sv.com / instagram @ea11sv

Credits
Models/photographers: Ivan Grgic @ivngrgc, Mate Jonjic @matejonjic, Marko Kasalo @marko_tulu, Filip Matesic @matesic_filip, Matija Milutin @blueseaskybluered, Lucijan Mirdita, Stas Mlinar @autobiografija, Mario Vurdelja @marioprizmic

Marko Feher - YUGOSLAVIA

Marko Feher, a promising fashion designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina who currently studies at Central Saint Martins, presented his new collection 'YUGOSLAVIA / ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА.

In recent years we see a true revival and revaluation for architecture from former Yugoslavia.
At MoMA there is currently a whole exhibition going on about this subject named 'Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980'. Fashion and architecture have always had good relationship with each other. In this context, it was to be expected that the futuristic and stunning monuments from Yugoslavia would be a source of inspiration for fashion designers. Such is the case for Marko Feher, who originates from former Yugoslavia.
"The starting point of my inspiration was monument “Tjentiste” in Sutjeska, Bosna I Hercegovina. When I was the age of 7 I saw this monument and was totally impressed, look to me powerful, strong but in the same time remind me on wings and sounds to me freedom."

The editorial is shoot by photographer Edvin Kalić and with the model Iris Bijedić at Tjentište monument. This spomenik (monument) at Tjentište, Bosnia commemorates the fallen fighters of the Battle of the Sutjeska, which took place from May 15th to June 16th, 1943.

Read more about his research on NJAL.

Architecture in Yugoslavia - MoMA

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Through January 13, 2019 Moma - The Museum of Modern Art

The Battle of Sutjeska Monumentdesigned by sculptor Miodrag Živković.
This spomenik at Tjentište, Bosnia commemorates the fallen fighters of the Battle of the Sutjeska, which took place from May 15th to June 16th, 1943.

Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia’s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The architecture that emerged—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—is a manifestation of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 introduces the exceptional work of socialist Yugoslavia’s leading architects to an international audience for the first time, highlighting a significant yet thus-far understudied body of modernist architecture, whose forward-thinking contributions still resonate today.

Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić, and Milan Krstić. Avala TV Tower.
1960–65 (destroyed in 1999 and rebuilt in 2010). Mount Avala, near Belgrade, Serbia. Exterior view.
Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016.

The exhibition includes more than 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museums across the region, and features work by important architects including Bogdan Bogdanović, Juraj Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radević, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Milica Šterić. From the sculptural interior of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia, to the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje based on Kenzo Tange’s Metabolist design, to the new town of New Belgrade, with its expressive large-scale housing blocks and civic buildings, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and modes of production in Yugoslav architecture and its distinct yet multifaceted character.

More info: moma.org

Berislav Serbetic and Vojin Bakic. Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija. 1979–81. Petrova Gora, Croatia. Exterior view. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016