Winners - Fashion Makes Sense Award 2019

FASHIONCLASH presented the 3rd edition of ‘Fashion Makes Sense Award’ (FMSA), a returning motivation prize for sustainable young designers.
On September 28 the FMSA was officially opened at Cube Design Museum in The Netherlands with a special program with workshops and fashion talks. On Novemver 2 during the 11th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019 the winners where announced. GARCIABELLO from Argentina won the Jury prize of €2.500,- and the Audience prize of €1000,- went to Dutch designer Iris van Wees. Honorable mention is for Elke Lutgerink.
Jury panel consisted of Marlo Saalmink, John de Greef, Emy Demkes and Sjaak Hullekes.


With the Fashion Makes Sense Award project FASHIONCLASH aims to develop talent and support sustainable designers on the one hand and raise awareness of sustainability related issues with a larger audience on the other. FMSA is meant to motivate and stimulate promising talent to think about sustainability and to offer young talents support in developing a durable collection.
Previous winners were Paolo Carzana, MUKASHI MUKASHI, SANDERMANN, Gal Yakobovitch and Strikks.

The 10 finalists are exhibited at Cube Design Museum and one during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019 in Maastricht. The exhibition at Cube Design Museum is open until January 20.

FMSA 2019 Finalists are:
1. Anouk Beckers (Netherlands)
2. Iris van Wees (Netherlands)
3. Aurélie Fontan (France)
4. Elke Lutgerink (Netherlands)
5. N. Palmer (UK)
6. GARCIABELLO (Argentina)
7. Barbara Stutz (Switzerland)
8. Linda Valkeman (Netherlands)
9. MOTHERWOMB (UK)
10. yiyu chen (Taiwan)

Photography: Laura Knipsael

Third edition of Łódź Young Fashion

Marlou Breuls

The Łódź Young Fashion Award 2019 gala ended the third edition of the young fashion festival, which this year lasted from 22nd to 26th October.

During the event organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in cooperation with the City of Łódź, each of the five days was filled with attractions, including evening gala events, free workshops, vernissages, film screenings and a panel devoted to sustainable design.

This year's, third edition of Łódź Young Fashion was opened by the Graduation Gala, during which we could see a show of this year's best graduation collections of the Institute of Fashion Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. The main awards for the participants of this year's student fashion festival went to: Agnieszka Szlaga for her collection "The struggle between beauty and ugliness in the new aesthetics of clothes. A collection of women's clothing". (Rector's Award) and Magdalena Pupczyk, who for her proposal "Nomadic Concept of the Contemporary Time. An original collection of shoes and accessories" received, from a specially appointed jury, a prize of 10 000 zlotys.

Maciej Józwicki

On 24th October 2019, the 26th gala of the most important national contest dedicated to young designers took place in the auditorium of the Fashion Promotion Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. The winner of this year's Złota Nitka was Maciej Józwicki. The main prize - the statuette and 30 thousand zlotys – was presented to him by Mariusz Przybylski, the chairman of the Contest Jury. The leading theme of this year's edition of Złota Nitka was "Future" and although the most important contest criterion was the utility of the collection - meeting the "ready to wear" requirement, the jury also took into account a fresh look at world trends and courage in presenting one's own style.
Maciej Józwicki's collection turned out to be just such a proposal, as he defeated 14 other young artists from all over Poland in the final game with his collection "Wiesia".

Friday evening (25th October) was full of emotions, because it was the night when the 5th jubilee edition of the Bra Day gala took place. The Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź is organizing it together with the M. Kopernik Hospital in Łódź and the Foundation "Pełną Piersią" for Breast Reconstruction. It is not fashion that is the main topic of the day, but women with experience of breast cancer. During the event they acted as models. The heroines of Bra Day 2019 presented collections of BIZUUU brands, MMC studio and a beach fashion collection by Dorota Salska during a professionally prepared fashion show. The BRA Day Committee decided to honour with a special title of "Friend of BRA Day" the late Wojciech Szrajber, the long-standing Director of the M. Kopernik Hospital in Łódź, who passed away in September.

Saturday, i.e. the 5th day of the event, was probably the most emotional day of all. On that day the International Contest Łódź Young Fashion Award 2019, in which 12 fashion designers from all over the world competed, was settled. The contest is addressed both to professional designers and debutants – artists associated with fashion schools, art schools and freelancers, born after 1989. The main prize – 30 thousand euro – places it among the biggest contests for designers in the world. The theme of this year's edition was "METROPOLIS".

"The icon collection" – this is the name of the winning collection by Marlou Breuls, inspired by the heroes of the underwater city depicted in the popular cartoon Sponge Bob. This avant-garde game with a pop-culture theme was used by the author to create 15 outstanding silhouettes. The jury appreciated above all the high creativity of the projects and their excellent execution – said Leslie Holden, the chairman of this year's jury in the explanatory statement to the verdict.

The main prize – the Mannequin statuette and 30 thousand euro – funded by the City of Łódź was presented to the winner by the Vice Mayor of the City of Łódź, Krzysztof Piątkowski. Łódź Young Fashion 2019 – a five-day festival of young fashion, during which various faces of fashion and art were presented, was organized by the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in cooperation with the City of Łódź.

https://www.lodzyoungfashion.com

Taskforce Fashion - Fashion After Flood

The first pilot of Taskforce Fashion - Fashion after Flood will be presented with an exhibition on 3 to 6 November at the Jan van Eyck Academy.

Taskforce Fashion initiators FASHIONCLASH, M-ODE and State of Fashion have challenged 15 Dutch fashion designers to reflect on a climate change reality and urgency: the rising sea level. If climate change continues at its current pace, Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam will disappear completely under water in the year 2300. By then, The Veluwe has become an island, giving refuge to Arnhem, Ede and Apeldoorn. Maastricht has become a hub for coastal towns such as Tilburg and Eindhoven. This future scenario - which received public attention earlier this year via Vrij Nederland - outlines a possible reality that requires not only imagination, but also solutions for new forms of society, business models and design practices.

Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation 2019

Fluid Boundary, Yanjin Wu

Like last year, Design Academy Graduation 2019 graduation exhibition took place in the historic industrial building of Campinaterrein.
For this years show a new curatorial approach to presenting the vast selection of 181 was applied.
Forging new connections between the design projects that transcend the traditional structure of the eight bachelor’s and four master’s departments, this year’s exhibition went deeper into uncovering the ideas and ideals that drive this generation of designers.

New generation designers are facing two essential questions:

how do you perceive the world around you, and what character do you play within that world?

In response to this, the 2019 Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show explored to imagine design projects as elements of various possible futures. DAE considers its agency as a community—of makers, users, mentors, students, performers, and viewers—to work together towards the fictional universe(s) of our choice. This year’s show was based on eight worldviews and five design characters evoked by cross-department selections of bachelors’ or masters’ projects.

From 120 bachelors’ projects, eight distinct worlds emerged. Landscape Amnesia relates to the retention or adaptation of cultural memory; Unknown Caller alludes to precarious employment; Training Set imbues artificial intelligence with the complexities of human identity; Seven Continents, One Ocean explores oceanic society under international law. Meanwhile, The Scavengers delves into the innovations of junkyard inhabitants; Hidden Publics examines urban subterfuge; The Guests are confined to therapeutic quarantine; finally, Channel Eight examines the tools used in the post-truth market of influence.
In parallel, the 61 masters’ projects model five different characters, each one a distinct typology of designer: Performer, Critical Observer, Material Appropriator, Situated Agent, and Empath.

Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation show is always my personal highlight of the Dutch Design Week. Again, I am happy to share the picture report from projects from all curatorial sections of the show.

https://www.designacademy.nl 

New Fashion Narratives - FASHIONCLASH Festival

New Fashion Narratives: 
A collaboration between FASHIONCLASH and Bureau Europa

Gino Anthonisse

On Thursday October 17, the exhibition New Fashion Narratives was officially opened with the Fashion Talk: New Business Models. The speakers are fashion designers who know how to combine their artistic skills with entrepreneurship and thus introduce new sustainable business models for fashion.

Exhibition 
The designers that shape this exhibition see fashion as a mission. They belong to a generation of designers who explore the boundaries of their discipline and question the system and the fashion industry. With their works, they operate in the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual arts and they always work with the final user/consumer. This way, they introduce contemporary themes such as inclusiveness, gender, consumption and thus new narratives for fashion.

Participants:
As of Nū (Karmen Samson) | Das Leben am Haverkamp (Gino Anthonisse, Dewi Bekker, Christa van der Meer & Anouk van Klaveren) | Obroni Wa Wu - Dead White Man's Clothing (Linda Valkeman & Carmen Hogg) | NOIJ (Dafne en Nikki Noij) | Gabriel Fontana | Esra Coppur | JANNA WIERINGA | Lisa Konno | The Fabricant

Opening hours: Wednesday till Sunday - 12.00 - 17.00 Entrance: € 5,00 (students € 3,00), free admission with the Dutch National Museum card. Free entrance during FASHIONCLASH Festival (1 - 3 November) and during the opening (Thursday October 17)

More information: fashionclash.nl

Photography: Laura Knipsael

The Arctic - While the Ice is Melting

The Arctic - While the Ice is Melting opened recently at the Nordiska museet in Stockholm, Sweden. This very urgent large-scale immersive exhibition is designed by Award-winning designers Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov of MUSEEA.

The Nordiska museet's Great Hall has been given over to the life and changing conditions of the Arctic region. In The Arctic – While the Ice Is Melting, visitors encounter the history and future of the ice, and the 4 million people that live in one of the regions of the world where climate change is most noticeable. Occupying over 2,000 square meters, the exhibition is a result of a close collaboration between the Nordiska museet, 40 researchers and experts from around the polar area and the exhibition designers. The exhibition will be open for three years.

Award-winning designers Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov of MUSEEA designed this grand exhibition. Occupying over 2,000 square meters, the exhibition is a result of a close collaboration between the Nordiska Museet, 40 researchers and experts from around the polar area and the exhibition designers. The exhibition will run for approximately three years, and there will be an extensive program of seminars and workshops for the public.

“This is one of the most important exhibitions that we have designed”, says Sofia Hedman. “The climate crisis is a critical issue that concerns us all. With our design, we want the visitor to have a powerful and immersive experience, but at the same time feel that we must all come together and act now. Especially politicians and those in power.”

More information: www.nordiskamuseet.se

MUSEEA is a multidisciplinary design platform founded by the artist and design duo Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov. Over nearly a decade, they have jointly curated and designed numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions in renowned museums and art institutions worldwide. Integral to Hedman and Martynov’s work is creating thought-provoking immersive environments that intrigue, inspire and draw people together. Their unique combination of both conceptual and aesthetic design allows MUSEEA to shape compelling curatorial narratives and in turn, engage their audiences in sensorial and emotive experiences. Their projects are driven by their passions for stimulating collaborations, global inclusivity and sustainable artistic practices.

MUSEEA’s recent work includes the fashion exhibition A Queen Within – Adorned Archetypes at the Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, 2019, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2018, as well as the international film and video exhibition We Are The Remix on view at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, 2017. A prior exhibition, Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward at Liljevachs Gallery, Stockholm, was awarded ‘Exhibition of the Year 2015’ by The Association of Swedish Museums www.museea.com

Photography - Hendrik Zeitler

New Order of Fashion - The End is Near

Pauline de Blonay

New Order of Fashion:
The End is Near / Time for New Beginnings

Location: Warehouse of Innovation

New Order of Fashion  (previously Modebelofte) know how to excite with the latest fashion talents.
Each year the New Order of Fashion presents a selection of striking young fashion graduates who expressed the current state of mind in their fashion projects. Presented in a an overall scenography concept, the exhibition provides one of the highlights of displayed fashion design projects during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.

Although this years title The End is Near sounds apocalyptic, the proposals are rather optimistic visions for the future or activist reflections on our current times.

New Order of Fashion composed a strong selection with striking and imaginative graduation projects from various countries.
The topics addressed are climate change, social justice, cultural and gender diversity.

Featured designers are: Ahmed Serour, Andrew Davis, Benedetta Marcucci, Andrea Grossi, Brandon Wen, Esra Copur, Matthew Needham, Ka Yee Lee, Cecily Ophelia, Valentine Tinchant, Anna Sophie Goschin, Laura Krarup Frandsen, Pauline de Blonay, Bodil Ouedraogo, Julia Montin, Vincent Wong

"It is time for new beginnings. It is time to redesign everything from the bottom up so as to do right to the many wrongs; to the planet and all its life, to our fellow human beings, and ultimately, to ourselves."

In addition, projects by Sunbrella x Wendy Andreu, A Common Label (by Alicia Minnaard) and UNSEAM (by Karin Vlug and Bas Froon) are on show.

https://neworderoffashion.com

Andrea Grossi

Getting Closer Fashion Festival

Photo: Lonneke van der Palen, Styling: Bernadette van Wijlen
Clothing: Isabell Schulz

De Wasserij fashion incubator in Rotterdam North opens with the Getting Closer Fashion Festival, 16 and 17 November.
During this festival you can get to know local designers and participants of De Wasserij.
The programme contains open studios, workshops, presentations and guided tours and pop-up shop. 

With participants An.Nur, AnoukxVera, Ari Van Twillert, Berend Brus, Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, Dame Fortune, Inez Naomi, Isabelle Schulz, Kukka design, Marlou Verheijden, De Naaister, EIJK, Studio Markx, Mevan Kaluarachchi, Lisa Konno, Tegendraads, Yophi Ignacia and many more.

De Wasserij is a brand new breeding ground for innovative fashion professionals. The building offers studios, a fashion manufacturing lab and a program of events.

More information: http://dewasserij.cc 

Talent Invasion - The Museum of Bags and Purses

The Museum of Bags and Purses (Tassenmuseum Amsterdam) is in transition: from a museum of bags and purses to a dynamic House full of stories about fashion, design, craft, and society.

Talent Invasion arose from the museum’s desire for original, unexpected and surprising collaborations and interventions. By focusing on a new generation of designers, the exhibition enables us to realise this desire by bringing in an avalanche of new ideas that inspire and motivate.

Guest curator and freelance creative director Martien Mellema has selected work especially for the Museum of Bags and Purses by twenty-one promising designers from this year’s graduating class of students from Dutch art, fashion, and design academies. The most important selection criteria? Chutzpah, individuality, and an anarchistic approach. According to Mellema and her team, this is what the fashion industry needs at this time. For this exhibition Mellema collaborated with concept designer Leonoor Ottink and visual storyteller Elin Visser.

Talent Invasion revolves around talents who aren’t afraid to think out of the box; with their work they are commenting on the current zeitgeist and challenging the status quo. It’s about visionary newcomers with original and highly individual opinions, who are refusing to follow existing rules and conventions.

Talent Invasion features young designers: Juris Efneris, Bodil Ouédraogo, Dana Lipka, Esra Copur,Otilia Vieru, Britt Liberg, Dylan Westerweel, Anouk van Kampen Wieling, Joline Kwakkenbos, Iris van Wees, Laura Silberzahn, Empar Juanes Sanchis, Karis Lindelien, Chloe Severien, Mika Perlmutter, Rosalie van Pinxteren, Larissa Schepers, Linda Ludbarza, Satomi Minoshima.

During Talent Invasion the Museum of Bags and Purses will be organising an inspiring program with talks and tours. For more information about the exhibition, the program or tickets visit museumofbagsandpurses.com

Bodil Ouédraogo

Program for 11th FASHIONCLASH Festival

FASHIONCLASH presents the 11th edition of the international and interdisciplinary fashion festival in Maastricht.

During this three-day festival, more than 100 emerging designers and (performing) artists from around the world will have the opportunity to show their work to a diverse, international audience. The multidisciplinary program includes fashion shows and presentations, exhibitions, awards, fashion talks theater and dance performances and more.

For more information on the program, participants and tickets: fashionclash.nl

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019 is all about discovering, stimulating and shaping current developments in fashion and unlocking these developments to a wide audience. FCF functions on the one hand as a stage for designers and artists and on the other as a manifestation in which the role of fashion in the context of society is questioned and used to create dialogue. The festival is an eclectic fusion of disciplines such as (fashion) design, theatre, dance, film, visual arts and welcomes avant-garde new generation who dares to look beyond their discipline. The contextual link on which the content of the festival programme is based are the core artistic values of FASHIONCLASH: namely ‘Clash’, ‘Fashion Makes Sense’ and ‘Community’. FASHIONCLASH Festival stands for crossovers and interdisciplinary collaborations, for placing fashion in societal context and for engagement with a broad audience.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is an initiative by FASHIONCLASH Foundation from The Netherlands.

New Fashion Narratives

New Fashion Narratives: A collaboration between FASHIONCLASH and Bureau Europa

On Thursday October 17, the exhibition New Fashion Narratives will officially be opened with the Fashion Talk: New Business Models. The speakers are fashion designers who know how to combine their artistic skills with entrepreneurship and thus introduce new sustainable business models for fashion.
Please note: the Fashion Talk will take place at Lumière Cinema (next to Bureau Europa). The opening of the exhibition will take place right after the Fashion Talk, at Bureau Europa (from 18.30 onwards) 

Exhibition
The designers that shape this exhibition see fashion as a mission. They belong to a generation of designers who explore the boundaries of their discipline and question the system and the fashion industry. With their works, they operate in the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual arts and they always work with the final user/consumer. This way, they introduce contemporary themes such as inclusiveness, gender, consumption and thus new narratives for fashion.

Participating designers
As of Nū (Karmen Samson) | Das Leben am Haverkamp (Gino Anthonisse, Dewi Bekker, Christa van der Meer & Anouk van Klaveren) | Obroni Wa Wu - Dead White Man's Clothing (Linda Valkeman & Carmen Hogg) | NOIJ (Dafne en Nikki Noij) | Gabriel Fontana | Esra Coppur | JANNA WIERINGA | Lisa Konno | The Fabricant

Opening hours: Wednesday till Sunday - 12.00 - 17.00
Entrance: € 5,00 (students € 3,00), free admission with the Dutch National Museum card.
Free entrance during FASHIONCLASH Festival (1 - 3 November) and during the opening (Thursday October 17)

More information: fashionclash.nl

Redress Design Award 2019

Redress presented the finalists from the Redress Design Award 2019 at CENTRESTAGE Hong Kong.

Maddie Williams Redress Design Award 2019 winner

The mail prize was given to designer Maddie Williams, alumna Edinburgh College of Art, whose collection makes use of up-cycling and reconstruction techniques. The Runner-Up Prize went to Carina Roca Portella, an MA student at ESDI Barcelona and the Hong Kong Best Prize was presented to Keith Chan. Moriah Ardila, a student from Shenkar, was given the People’s Choice Prize.

An international judging panel presided over the event, including Tillmann Lauterbach (Creative Director, REVERB), Ruth Farrell (Global Marketing Director, Textiles, Eastman), Leaf Greener (Fashion Journalist), Orsola de Castro (Co-Founder of Estethica and Co-Founder of Fashion Revolution), Denise Ho (Fashion Director, The R Collective),Roger Lee (CEO, TAL Group) and Clare Press (Podcaster and Sustainability Editor-at-Large, Vogue Australia).

Museum Motus Mori

Photo: Hanneke Wetzer

Museum Motus Mori - Katja Heitmann at Marres
13.09.19 - 27.10.19

German choreographer Katja Heitmann and ten dancers are creating a museum for physical movements that face the threat of extinction. Museums are meant to preserve human culture and history. It nearly goes without saying that they do so through objects, installations, and occasionally, stories. But humanity itself is missing in this solidified version of our lives. For six weeks, five hours a day, the dancers and the choreographer will take on the remarkable challenge of creating a new museum precisely for that purpose. Museum Motus Mori will sensitize visitors to the deep humanness hidden within the body.

In choreographic sculptures, Heitmann zooms in on details of human motricity to unravel it into patterns, specific sequences of structures, and seemingly eternal loops. A choreography for the collarbone, a dance of belly button, belly fat and rib cage, a phrase for the heartbeat and knee muscle arises. Body parts are isolated, mechanically brought into motion, the hips tilted, the leg lifted, driven across the space in a meticulously technical manner, every movement of which is deliberate. The fragments are constantly repositioned in time and in relation to one another, sharpening and questioning our perceptions.

Museum Motus Mori lets visitors experience what a museum of human movement can be. This does not happen only through experiencing the dancers: the exhibition also includes two interview spaces where visitors can ‘donate’ their personal movements to the museum. The score (notation) of those movements will be shown in the exhibition’s archive room. This will lead to a full cycle of donation, notation and exhibition of a museum in which each muscle is an anatomic trigger that underscores the vulnerability of human existence.
The choreographer and her team will spend two months in Maastricht for this project, on which they will be working every single day.

More info: https://www.marres.org/en/programmas/museum-motus-mori/

SMUK. Decorative techniques in fashion: a show-off

Fashion Museum Hasselt is preparing for SMUK
On october 12 Fashion Museum Hasselt launches 'SMUK. Decorative techniques in fashion: a show-off', an interactive world full of splendour.

This new exhibition covers both historical and contemporary decorative techniques that are characteristic of luxury fashion. The exhibition will show clothing, accessories and couture adorned with embroidery, feathers, pearls, stones, sequins, shells and other curiosities. And it is not only recognised atelier studios like Hurel, Lesage and Lemarié that will play a central role, visitors will also be involved in the exhibition. In the chambers of wonder, visitors can try out high-quality decorative craftwork.

Fashion Makes Sense Award 2019 Program

FASHIONCLASH presents the 3rd edition of ‘Fashion Makes Sense Award’ (FMSA), a returning motivation prize for young designers. This project aims to develop talent and support sustainable designers on the one hand and raise awareness of sustainability related issues with a larger audience on the other.

The 10 finalists will present two outfits; one at Cube Design Museum and one during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019 at the SAM Decorfabriek. The contestants are in the running for the Jury prize of €2.500,- and the Audience prize of €1000,-! The winner of the Jury prize will use these funds to create a sustainable collection, which she/he will present during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2020. The winning designers will be announced during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2019

Kick Off Program, 28 September
In co-operation with Cube Design Museum Kerkrade, FASHIONCLASH will host an official KICK OFF event Saturday the 28th,  a day full of interesting workshops, key note speakers and the opening of the Fashion Makes Sense Award exhibition where you can vote for your favorite outfit.

Program
10:00 - 14:30 / Workshop 1: JOIN Collective Clothes (Anouk Beckers)
11:00 - 12:30 / Workshop 2: Awearness Fashion - Duurzaam en succesvol ondernemen in de mode industrie (this workshop will be hosted in Dutch)
11:30 - 14:30 / Workshop 3: Hackaton Speculative Future Fashion, Theo Ploeg
14:45 - 16:15 / Fashion Talk, moderated by Jeroen Junte
Speakers:
- Karin Vlug (UNSEAM)
- Linda Valkeman (OBRONI WA WU)
- Amber Jea Slooten (The Fabricant)
- Esther Muñoz Grootveld, Branko Popovic (Taskforce Fashion)

16:15 - 17:30 / Official opening FMSA 2019 Exhibition & Public Voting

More information about program and tickets:
https://www.fashionclash.nl/fmsa-2019 

MEET THE FINALISTS