FASHIONCLASH Festival 2022

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2022 was a three-day (25-27 November 2022) hybrid festival where a new generation of designers and performing artists from all over the world were given the opportunity to show their work to a broad (inter)national audience.

Driven by the spirit of the FASHIONCLASH community – from volunteers to coaches to performers – the campaign for this edition was centered around the people who have played an important part in the existence and development of FASHIONCLASH Festival, going back to the early start in 2009. Needless to say, these people represent a bigger group of people.

This was FASHIONCLASH Festival 2022

The CLASH House 

The CLASH House is a showcase and development program for designers focusing on crossovers between fashion and other art disciplines, especially the performing arts. Participants of The CLASH House were offered a coaching trajectory prior to FASHIONCLASH Festival in which they were supported by theater makers Milou van Duijnhoven and Giovanni Brand. The CLASH House was hosted by the artist and performer ARIAH LESTER.

Participants: Dirk Vaessen, Elliot collective, Niko Markovic, Katharina Spitz, Maya Kaplan.

Open Mic Night, Powered by Meester Koetsier Foundation 

With Open Mic Night FASHIONCLASH aims to create inspiring encounters between designers and audiences, by asking questions and sharing stories during a comedy club-inspired event. It is an eclectic clash of visions, working methods and styles of a distinctly new generation of designers who recently graduated in the Netherlands. Open Mic Night was hosted by the artist and performer ARIAH LESTER.

Participants: Ruben Jurriën, Kickyland, Floor Klaassen, Loïs Brandsen, Inez Carmen, Lauren Thoonen.

New Fashion Narratives #1 | Bureau Europa i.c.w. Glamcult

The New Fashion Narratives exhibition at Bureau Europa was an international selection of designers curated by Glamcult and FASHIONCLASH. New Fashion Narratives stands for the current generation of designers who see fashion as their mission. They explore the boundaries of their discipline, question social systems and specifically the fashion industry. With their works they move between the interdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual arts and investigate the relationship with the user/consumer.

Participants: Art Collective BCHMNN, Mehdi Mashayekhi, LABELEDBY., OUR SHIFT, Aurélie Defez, DOMINIK, Dara Benno, SUFI, Pablo Salvador Willemars, ZOLI, Denzel Veerkamp, Luca Berger (winner Kunstbende), House of rubber, SCHEPERS BOSMAN

New Fashion Narratives #2 | Marres 

The New Fashion Narratives exhibition at Marres consisted of a multidisciplinary selection of both young and established talent with a link with the Netherlands. FASHIONCLASH signals a growing need among Dutch designers to contribute to a healthier fashion sector and a better world. This critical, research-minded and hybrid generation of fashion makers engage themselves in the transformative role of fashion in relation to social issues and propose alternative fashion practices and narratives.

Participants: Teresa van Twuijver & Studio de Maan, Extended, Lena Winterink, Bobbine Berden Design, Wei-Chi Su, Antoine Peters, Space For Fiction (SFF), Guerline Kamp, Atelier Dasha Tsapenko

Fashion Film & Video

The Fashion Film and Video program offered a platform to emerging designers, artists and filmmakers who experiment with the genre of fashion film/video, animation and other related audiovisual and digital media. The selected films were on display at Lumière Cinema in Maastricht. In addition to the Fashion Film and Video program, two Awards were handed out during the Official Opening of FASHIONCLASH Festival. Erik Bergrin & Arkan Zakharov won the Fashion Film & Video jury prize with their film 'The 8 Dissolutions', made possible in part by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Limburg. The jury panel consisted of Diane Pernet, Cathelijne Blok and Niccolo Montanari. The short film 'Sock Monster' by ANT EYE | Hanneke & Tosca won the KALTBLUT Magazine Award.

Participants: Anna Melegh*, Erik Bergrin and directed by Arkan Zakharov*, Roumans, Clara Son, Chiron Floris, Hadi Moussally, T*MITROVSKA*, JING QIAN, Haus Of Stone by Danayi Madondo, Marija Petraityte, Saskia Roturier, Caterina DeRousse, PUNTJUDITH, NEO Design, Bastiaan van der Hoek, Wendy Owusu* , ANT EYE | Hanneke & Tosca.

*In competition for Fashion Film & Video Award

Fashion Makes Sense 

Fashion Makes Sense is FASHIONCLASH's ongoing participation program from which projects are developed with a focus on social design, inclusion, education and collaboration of professionals and amateurs. In particular, attention is paid to the active participation of young people and marginalized target groups. During FASHIONCLASH Festival 2022, a screening of the projects 'MOVING PORTRAITS' and 'The Hooooooodie Project’ was presented at Lumière Cinema, which included a Talk with Antoine Peters, Karlijn & Lotte Milder of Studio AKATAK and MOVING PORTRAITS participants Gerald Derksen and Veronika Schoberer. The Talk was moderated by Chanel Trapman of Mumster.

Additionally, Who cares what you wear?, an interactive theater performance for young people about fashion and sustainability, developed in collaboration with theater maker Mayke Roels and actresses Ilse Geilen and Lindsay Zwaan was presented at De Brandweerkantine.

FASHIONCLASH Festival Online  

Couldn’t make it to Maastricht in person or do you just want to experience FASHIONCLASH Festival again? You can relive FASHIONCLASH Festival online! Watch & listen to the background stories by the participants of both New Fashion Narratives exhibitions and enjoy a registration of the performances of Open Mic Night and The CLASH House

Talentlab – i.c.w. Via Zuid & Toneelgroep Maastricht

From 24 October to 26 November 2022 the 6th edition of Talentlab took place, the talent development project of Toneelgroep Maastricht and VIA ZUID. In Talentlab, 6 young promising professional talents from the performing arts have been intensively working together for five weeks to further develop their artistry. Under the guidance of Paul Slangen (dramaturge Toneelgroep Maastricht) and Joost Segers (artistic developer VIA ZUID) they have been experimenting, inspired by each other and by fashion. The final results were on display during FASHIONCLASH Festival.

All images: Laura Knipsael

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