New Fashion Narratives Trajectory 2024

New Fashion Narratives is an initiative of FASHIONCLASH organized in the context of the FASHIONCLASH research program and has been a permanent part of the FASHIONCLASH activity program for a number of years. It has always been presented in the form of an exhibition during the annual FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht (The Netherlands).

Continuing the positive experience of a pilot in 2023, a group of 5 fashion practitioners* will be selected by FASHIONCLASH to collaborate on the development of the co-curatorial concept for the multimedia exhibition, presented at Bureau Europa, during FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht (15-17 November 2024). The New Fashion Narratives Trajectory starts with a short residency (New Fashion Narratives Residency) in Maastricht.

*Fashion practitioners: FASHIONCLASH approaches fashion in the broadest sense of the word and meaning. This project is open to anyone who identifies as a fashion practitioner regarding educational background and experience.

Watch Short Doc New Fashion Narratives 2023

With this project we aim to:

Explore new fashion presentation forms within a (fashion) festival framework and a potential role of a fashion platform in the future;
Explore what the current/new fashion narratives are and can be;
Explore alternative ways to create programs with targeted impact for both awareness and innovation of the discipline;
Explore how we can create a polyphonic exhibition program in which different stories, perspectives and working methods of the current generation of designers and artists are given a stage;
Provide an open and experimental space to a group of fashion practitioners, giving them the opportunity to broaden their artistic-, practice-, curatorial and collaborative skills.
Create a community of practice to share knowledge, perspectives and vision on how to contribute to a better and (fashion) world.