Patrick de Pádua - ModaLisboa Boundless

Patrick de Pádua FW 2017/18

'Weapon of Life'

Patrick de Pádua was born in 1988, in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. In 2000, he moved to Portugal, and graduated in Fashion Design from MODATEX, in Lisbon.
In March 2014, Patrick was one of the designers chosen by ModaLisboa – Lisbon Fashion Week to present his collection at Sangue Novo platform. After presenting his second collection at Sangue Novo, in March 2015, he was selected to participate at the FASHIONCLASH Festival (The Netherlands), where he won the Kaltblut Magazine Award. In March 2016, he is selected by the jury of Sangue Novo to integrate LAB platform. From October 2016, the young designer started to present his collections seasonally at ModaLisboa.

www.patrickdepadua.com

Valentim Quaresma - ModaLisboa Boundless

Valentim Quaresma FW 2017/18

www.valentimquaresma.com

Ricardo Andrez - ModaLisboa Boundless

Ricardo Andrez - FW 2017/18

Ricardo Andrez was born and brought up in Oporto, Portugal. He studied at the Cooperativa Arvore and the Citex (School of textiles and design) in Oporto. Thinking about fashion means thinking about the body, and he wanted to explore images and products from this perspective. Andrez established his own label in 2006, with men´s fashion forming the focus of his research. Since then, he has reinterpreted sportswear and streetwear, creating a colourful, healthy and structured universe.
Since 2010 is one of the designers at Lab platform of ModaLisboa, Lisbon Fashion Week. He presented his work at Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week; 080 Barcelona Fashion Week and London Fashion Week.
He was awarded with PasaFad Best Collection, ModaFad/Book Barcelona;. In 2010, was also awarded with the "Silver Shoe" MMM Munich Boqueria, Barcelona, and with the prize "Best Breakthrough Designer - Man09". In January 13 he gained the Menswear Prize for the Who´s Next Blog Contest and exhibited at Who´s Next Paris 13.

www.ricardoandrez.com

Kolovrat - ModaLisboa BOUNDLESS

With her latest collection for FW 2017/18, Lidija Kolovrat drew inspiration in South America, in particular the Andean culture.
Lidija Kolovrat was born in 1962 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied cinema and fashion at the Design and Technology College in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1990 she moved to Portugal where she is recognised as a prominent artist and regularly shows video art and installations in galleries and museums.
Her extensive body of work includes costume design for the theatre, opera and contemporary dance among other performing arts. In her interdisciplinary research work and involvement with design, Lidija opened Kolovrat Lab, an art space that was to operate for 15 years as a platform for het to develop her own work in fashion, which is presented by ModaLisboa during the Lisbon Fashion Week.
Lidija has also applied her skills to teaching, workshops and master degree programmes within the Lab and its wide range of activities.
In 2010, after a brief interval outside Portugal and the resulting closures of Kolovrat Lab, Lisbon saw her return and the start of Kolovrat 79. This multi-functional space where art and design can grow exponentially in an upstairs Lab and a street-level gallery.

www.lidijakolovrat.com

AWAYTOMARS FW 2017/18 - ModaLisboa Boundless

AWAYTOMARS presented their fifth co-created fashion collection at ModaLisboa Lisboa Fashion Week FW 2017/18.
They presented the latest collection with a performative multidisciplinary presentation, making it one of the most creative show of the Boundless edition.

This followed their 100% co-created October show, which featured designs submitted by a wide-ranging group of creatives: from a Norfolk-based GCSE student to a Ukrainian artist to figures from the houses of Burberry, COS, Acne Studios among many others. More than 800 people have already contributed ideas online for our upcoming show. This is the start of a new movement of design, innovation and crowd participation in the fashion industry.

AWAYTOMARS is the world’s first 100% user-created fashion brand. Its business model is based on sharing economy principles and aims to open up the fashion industry to all. Founded in 2015, the company outsources the initial stages of the creative process to the general public, allowing them to concentrate solely on the generation of interesting and innovative ideas.

AWAYTOMARS receives sketches and ideas online from members of the public and iterates them with the help of its online community to create eye-catching, collaborative fashion. Next, AWAYTOMARS works with technical experts to create physical prototypes, organizes a crowdfunding campaign for each product, oversees the entire production process and finally hosts the finished item on its sales portal.
Thanks to our founding principles of open innovation and crowdsourcing, everyone across the globe now has equal opportunity to see their own ideas for fashion products come to life. We are lowering the fashion industry’s barriers to entry.

https://www.awaytomars.com

David Ferreira FW 17/18 - ModaLisboa Boundless

David Ferreira “The Freakball” Collection
David Ferreira’s AW17/18 collection is inspired by the strikingly unusual and unique. Research began at the circus and its origins, but it was in sideshows and freak shows that he plunged head first into his collection.
Even though the foundation of the David Ferreira autumn winter collection lays in the film “Freaks” (1932), the book “Freak Show” by Roben Bogdan, The Victorian Freak Show and the work of photographer, Joel-Peter Witkin, the collection isn’t a literal inspiration of human deformities and biological rarities, instead it is a celebration of the beauty of singularity, individuality and rarity.
Uniqueness is the true meaning of luxury. There is nothing more exclusive than the singular and Ferreira’s pieces play with the shape of the woman’s silhouette, creating a visual poetry that blurs the lines between thing and person, portraying the feeling of holding uniqueness in the highest regards.
The “The Freakball” collection is a celebration of individuality, of not fitting into society’s stereotype of ‘normal’. This collection plays with volumes created by ruffles, gatherings, pattern cutting and straightened Mongolian lamb.
The colour palette sees midnight blue, baby blue, chartreuse yellow, turquoise and pinks from chock to pale on silk double duchesses satins, silk satins, silk crepe satins, Mongolian lamb, tulle and woven metal fabric.

http://www.davidferreiraofficial.com

DUARTE | ModaLisboa Lisboa Fashion Week

DUARTE | FW 17/18 - 'NEVADA'

Young designer Ana Duarte debuted in the LAB show during Boundless edition of ModaLisboa. Previously she was part of Sangue Novo, from where she was awarded to present her label in a bigger show.
 
In a society focused on constant movement, “Nevada” rises as an escape. To be in contact with the surroundings through sports can be seen as a chance to regain strength and knowledge about oneself.
The blues/whites are related to the cold mountains and the reds to the defiance feeling within each individual that plays radical sports, namely snowboard. The shapes are opposed between oversized/fitted, in a provoking game between protection and natural body shape.
Following the brand concept of sportswear luxury each garment is thoroughly thought of, resulting in quality pieces.

ModaLisboa Sangue Novo - Boundless edition

ModaLisboa - Lisboa Fashion Week - Boundless edition took place from 9 - 12 March.

Sangue Novo (New Blood) is a platform for young Portuguese designers who get the opportunity to show their work within a collective fashion show. Eight young Portuguese designers where selected to show their collections. At the end of the show several awards where presented.

Winner of Sangue Novo/FASHIONCLASH Prize this edition was Rita Afonso, who convinced with her relevant story and playful collection 'I AM A VASE, BUT I SCREAM'.

 "The collection “I am a vase, but I scream” intends to pay homage to all women in history that had to use their voices and scream for their rights. Specially those that wanted to be artists and were only allowed to practice the so called minor arts. 
Clarisse Lispector once said: "If I have to be an object, let me be one that screams". The collection screams for the still nature paintings, the weaving art and for all the fruits and vases that replaced the breasts, the legs and the naked bodies of the major arts." 

with the FASHIONCLASH Award winners, Rita Afonso and João Oliveira

João Oliveira won the ModaLisboa prize.  He was the winner of FASHIONCLASH prize during October 2016 edition. With his innovative new collection 'Society' he show great potential.

“Society” explores the conduct of individuals in the most varied contemporary landscapes, facing the technological audacity. The collection interprets the historic and the emotional charge behind each provided feedback – support, heaviness, indifference and attachment. 
The oversized silhouette is an analogy of the journey and a metaphor for the accrued burden. And the layering breaks down the topic elements: the road, the people and their attitude. “Society” combines a streetwear approach with details influenced by workwear. 

As part of their prize, both Rita Afonso and João Oliveira will show their collection during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017.

Other talented designers who presented their collection where Carolina Machado, Liliana Afonso, Rita Carvalho, Micaela Sapinho, Alexandre Pereira and Mariana Laurência.

All images by brankopopovicblog.

Mo­de­mu­ze@OBA

dress by Fong Leng

From March 17 until Juli 2 Modemuze is guest at OBA in Amsterdam.

The exhibition Modemuze@OBA provides the enthusiasts the richness of fashion, costume and accessories that are in Dutch museum collections.
From historical clothing to contemporary creations of young designers like Jef Montes and Luca Kemkes, you can discover it at this special exhibition. 

Modemuze is a cooperation of twelve Dutch museums with a unique fashion and costume collection.
Under the name Modemuze the museums are collaborating to permanently present these collections online. They aim to connect a growing amount of Dutch fashion and costume collections and present them as a source of inspiration for fashion lovers, professionals and fashionistas.
The thousands of garments and accessories in these museums represent many stories about their creators and wearers, about the changes in taste, about imagination and identity. These collections are very vulnerable because of their frigile textiles and therefore not permanently visible to the public. www.modemuze.nl gives you 24/7 the opportunity to wander through centuries, get inspired and share the beauty of costume heritige.

www.modemuze.nl

FASHIONCLASH CHENGDU 2017

Designer: Gino Anthonisse
  Photo: Lisandro Suriel

FASHIONCLASH CHENGDU 2017 
24 March – 23 April 2017, in Chengdu, China

In March and April of this year, Maastricht-based interdisciplinary fashion platform FASHIONCLASH, jointly with Chinese partners Punch Me, Cross Lab and Dutch-Chinese organization About Asia will introduce “FASHIONCLASH 2017: Future of Fashion” in Chengdu. After a successful first exhibition of FASHIONCLASH in China (2015), as part of an exchange programme between the cities of Maastricht (Netherlands) and Chengdu (Sichuan, China), FASHIONCLASH now presents a larger, more comprehensive, and complete story at the newly opened “Future Center” in downtown Chengdu from 24 March until 23 April.




‘Future of Fashion’ is a multidisciplinary exhibition composed out of work of more than 30 emerging designers and artists from The Netherlands and Flanders. The exhibition represents a broad spectrum of fashion design aesthetics, visions and various approaches to fashion. The presented work stands out for its concept, experimental material and textile, innovative shapes and tailoring. In addition to fashion the exhibition features screenings of interdisciplinary fashion films and performances. Among the participants there are award winning designers like Marlou Breuls and Nikki Duijst, avant-garde designers’ collective Das Leben Am Haverkamp and promising theatre makers like Lotte Milder and Milou van Duijnhoven. The selection of participants is an eclectic mix of designers that graduated from the top schools such as AMFI, ArtEZ Arnhem, MAFAD, KABK, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Theatre Academy Maastricht.
FASHIONCLASH gathered a team of theatre performers that will bring the exhibition alive. Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck created an overall concept that serves as a platform to connect the physical space of the exhibition with performance space and engage interactions with the audience.

Partners
In collaboration with the Chinese cultural initiative Punch Group and their cultural festival “PunchMe Art Festival”, FASHIONCLASH meets west China for the second time. The exhibition will be staged in ‘Future Center’, an unfinished raw space within a building that perfectly fits the spirit of the new generation designers and artists who are redefining the future with their visions. ‘Future of Fashion’ creations will temporarily find their home in this space and inspire the audience of the potential that lays ahead. Anything is possible! Like in a labyrinth FASHIONCLASH invites visitors to wander and get lost in imagination of the future fashion makers. The Chinese showcases of FASHIONCLASH are developed and initiated in close collaboration with About Asia; a Dutch-Chinese promoter of cultural and creative industries in west China.

Jivika Biervliet
Photo Kevin Daniel Croes

Designers/artists/performers:
 
Designers
Ailene van Elmpt, By vanharten, Annewil Ravensbergen, Anouk van Klaveren, Bluedenîmes, Christa van der Meer, Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, Dewi Bekker, Ebby Port, NONOCAKE by Elke van Zuylen, Evie Cowan, Gino Anthonisse, Isis Elsa Fee, J.R. Sypkens Smit, Jivika Biervliet, Jorieke Tenbergen, JUDITHvanvliet, Kaho To, LAU – by Laura Verdonk, Lisa Konno & Karin Vlug, Maarten van Mulken, Christina Albrecht & Marina van Dieren, STOP by Marketa Martiskova, Marlou Breuls, Nikki Duijst, Draga Dina, Peer Cox, Rosanne van Wijk, Sanna Schubert, Steven Vanderyt, Yanaika Nuyts

Theatre performers: Mami Izumi, Anthony van Gog, Lotte Milder, Milou van Duijnhoven

Overall direction and scenography: Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck



Fashion films:
‘Time’ (Couzin and Maarten van Mulken)
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Act! Cut! Play! films ‘Your approval is not essential’ (Scheuller de Waal, Jelena Kostić, Leen Michiels), ‘The Parallel Pyramid Platform’ (Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, Daniel van Hauten, Emmanuel A. Ryngaert), ‘iii’ (Suze Milius, Marie-Sophie Beinke, Femke Huurdeman)

'The Parallel Pyramid Platform’ (Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck, Daniel van Hauten, Emmanuel A. Ryngaert

Details
Opening: 24 March 2017, 20:00
Activities: 24, 25 March 2017
Exhibition: 24 March – 23 April 2017
Venue: Future Center Chengdu
Address: 成都市成华区东风路26号未来中心

FASHIONCLASH is an innovative, interdisciplinary development platform and international fashion network that focusses on supporting a new generation of designers and artists. Over the past ten years FASHIONCLASH has grown from a single project into an influential fashion statement by developing and organizing projects such as the annual ‘FASHIONCLASH Festival’ in Maastricht. The ‘clash’ in FASHIONCLASH represents the encounter between talent, cultures, artistic disciplines, the audience and fashion. FASHIONCLASH strongly believes that the art of fashion can stimulate critical debate about controversial issues in our society. By researching and questioning ‘fashion’ we learn to understand the psychology of human behaviour and its role in undermining stereotypes.

Milou van Duijnhoven, performance ICON at FASHIONCLASH Festival