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Between Borders features many designers from FASHIONCLASH community

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Between Borders - Migration, power and boundless imagination
3 June - 22 October 2023

On Friday June 2nd Tussen Grenzen (Between Borders) exhibition was opened at Museum Arnhem. The exhibition features designers that have been part of one or more FASHIONCLASH projects. Branko Popovic, artistic director of FASHIONCLASH team as one of them.

On Sunday June 18th, the Talk | Perspectives on Unions with State of Fashion will take place. During this interactive talk, moderator Branko Popovic explores with Denzel Veerkamp, ​​Loïs Brandsen and Kalkidan Hoex how connection is reflected in their work. How can connecting cultures, backgrounds and perspectives bring about change in fashion? The (fashion) makers will not only speak, but will activate and present their work in a unique way.
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With the exhibition Between Borders, Museum Arnhem offers different perspectives on contemporary migration. The museum invites visitors to delve into personal stories about migration. These are stories by visual artists, designers and the public itself. The experience of migration, recognition and empathy is central to this.

All over the world, people move across borders for all kinds of reasons. In the 21st century, more people than ever migrate for all kinds of political, economic and environmental reasons. At the same time, travelling is increasingly difficult for a great many people. How difficult, or easy, it is, is often determined by your passport. Which countries welcome you and which do not? And when you are in another country, when do you feel at home? In the exhibition Between borders, artists, fashion and jewellery designers, and Arnhemmers alike share their answers to those questions.

Between borders consists of two parts. From 3 June, young fashion and jewellery designers living in the Netherlands will show work about living and working between two worlds. From 15 July, (inter)national artists and Arnhemmers will also share their personal experiences with borders and migration.

Migration and fashion
The first part of Between Borders opens on June 3. It shows body-related design, such as fashion and jewelry, by 19 designers living in the Netherlands with a migration background. Migration has long been a topical subject in the fashion world, especially with young makers such as Armia Yousefi, Lisa Konno and Denzel Veerkamp. Interest in this theme is also increasing in the jewelery industry. This becomes visible in the work of designers such as Luisa Kuschel, Kalkidan Hoex and Fleuri la Belle, who graduated from ArtEZ. The exhibition focuses on the personal stories of the makers and their experiences as designers in the Netherlands. Seven of them made new work especially for Between Borders. In addition, filmmaker Elisabetta Agyeiwaa is making a documentary in which nine participating designers have their say.

The month of June is fashion month in Arnhem. In Arnhem, various partners (State of Fashion, ArtEZ, Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem (FDFA), Rijn IJssel and Museum Arnhem) work together in the field of fashion. Museum Arnhem and FDFA have joined forces to choose eight makers who are affiliated with the city of Arnhem. Their work is shown in Between Borders.

Designers
In Between Borders you can admire work by Armia Yousefi, Branko Popovic, Chequita Nahar, David Paulus, Denzel Veerkamp, ​​Fleuri la Belle, Garcia Bello, Kalkidan Hoex, Karim Adduchi, Lisa Konno, Loïs Brandsen, Luisa Kuschel, Marcos Kueh, Maja Simišić , Mehdi Mashayekhi, Murat Akbas, Xhosa, Yinka Buutfeld, Zyanya Emperor. 

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Zlín Design Week 2023

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From 3 to 10 May 2023, the Zlín Design Week (CZ) took place. The programme of the 9th edition of the festival introduced visitors to universal design principles at various locations in Zlín. Build around the theme of ‘Design for All’, the programme focus was inclusivity in design.

This years edition contained ‘Best in Design’ competition exhibition, a fashion show of young designers, parties, an award show, a conference, and so on. 

Like last year, Branko Popovic from team FASHIONCLASH , was invited to take part in the jury panel of ‘Best in Design’ competition. In addition, he took part in a panel by Design CANTEEN. Together with Jeffrey Heiligers from 1m2 Collective, the conversation involved inclusivity in festivals.

The ‘Design for All’ exhibition offered an overview of how universal design involves our lives, with several examples of specific solutions.
“Our intention was to see the exhibition as a place where a clothing designer, a furniture company owner, an urban architect, and a local cultural enthusiast can meet, and the projects on display can pass on something to each of them – a reflection on the value of design in our lives, on what a universal and inclusive approach brings to us, a spark for debate about the possible barriers we all commonly encounter. We are very pleased that the curators Thea Urdal and Herman Greng Billett from Norway and the duo of Slovak architects Tomáš Tholt and Danica Pišteková have been involved in the preparation,” says festival director Jitka Smolíková. The exhibition was set in building 61 of the former Bata industrial complex.

Best in Design Competition for Young Designers

Zlin Design Week supports new talents who want to discover and develop new paths for design and they do so with the ‘Best in Design’ competition for creatives under 30. The finalists of the fourteenth edition of the competition were exhibited at the G18 Gallery. The exhibition provided a space for connecting clothing, visual communication, and industrial solutions, products, and services. The work of the finalists and winners across the past years of the ‘Best in Design’ competition is presented in a fashion show set in the unusual space of the Tomas Bata Memorial in Zlín. The Fashion show with respect to the Tomas Bata Memorial took place on 10 May, preceded by a programme of discussions and workshops related to the universal design and inclusive fashion festival theme.

Winners of Best in Design competition 2023

Fashion Design category winner is Marija Petraityte from Lithuania. In the fashion category second and third place was taken by Katarína Mydliarová and Jana Vaterková.

Michal Zmek won third place in the Product & Industrial Design category, the second place went to Timea Kepová and the first place to Zuzanna Wójcik.

Tereza Vašková placed third in the Service Design category, Alina Karl took the second place and the winner of this category was Matêj Malecha.

In the Communication category, co-creators Tim Stange and Fabian Meyer shared the third place, Julie Ditetová won the second place and the winner was Adrián Gubrica with impressive Mariupol Memoirial project.

And the overall winner of the entire Best in Design competition is none other than Zuzanna Wójcik!

Zlín Design Week

Zlín Design Week is a week-long design festival where everyone can find inspiration. Through the festival, we are creating for the ninth time a platform for presentation, expression, sharing, unexpected connections, and meeting young designers with professionals. We support young talents and bring fresh air to the design field. The project was created in 2015 at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín thanks to the interdisciplinary collaboration of design, marketing, photography, and audiovisual.

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FASHIONCLASH x Balaton Sound

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FASHIONCLASH teamed up with Balaton Sound festival, that will take place June 29 - July 2 in Zamárdi - Lake Balaton (Hungary).

Within the context of their fashion show programme Belgian fashion designer Sander Bos will showcase work from his Miss Bos brand.

Especially for FASHIONCLASH community, there is a 15% discount Promo code which can be used until 14 June. Promo code ‘FASHIONCLASH’ is valid for passes and tickets only. Discount code will get you 15 % off your purchase when applied at online checkout and only can be redeemed for 1 pass or 1 ticket at once.

Get your tickets!

Balaton Sound, one of the largest and most colourful open-air electronic beach festivals in Europe, set in the sunny and scenic Lake Balaton in Hungary, is returning for 2022 offering an unrivalled luxury VIP experience featuring some of the biggest global electronic music artists, such as Alesso, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, as well as the award winning Martin Garrix, Marshmello, Fisher, Paul Kalkbrenner, Robin Schulz and many more.

https://balatonsound.com

Miss Bos is the brand and brain child of designer Sander Bos. Sander was born and raised in Hasselt Belgium. After studying Art is high school, he decided to take his love for art and take it to fashion. He completed his Master of fashion design from the Royal academy of fine arts in Antwerp. Swiftly after that he started his own brand which would "become a Belgian fashion house that projects impressions from modern art".
Not much after that Sande Bos entered Making the cut, a tv-program which focuses on a fashion competition, where he landed in the finals. The Miss Bos line is a subline of the Sander Bos brand. Keeping the essence of Sander Bos, the line stays a reflection of modern art, but adding a layer of wearability. The clothing comes from the same inspiration, but a different perspective.

www.missbos.be

Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem 2021 re- examines the PURPOSE of the current fashion system

The new edition of the Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem will officially start soon on the 3rd of June 2021. This year, together with designers, artists and partners, the festival has a hybrid character due to the current global pandemic.
Together with designers, partners and curators Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem will investigate how the desire for a deeper purpose manifests itself in fashion and design. And how the fashion system is reinventing itself, after the reset.
It is about PURPOSE, but certainly also about REPURPOSE and a reset of the fashion system in a contemplative way. The festival zooms in on the way in which fashion and product design responds to the changing focus from material to immaterial happiness and purpose, based on the ten dimensions.

The ten dimensions refer to domains such as consumption, gender equality, ratio, emotion, empathy and are derived from the Tree of Life of Kabbalistic teachings, with the aim of finding a perfect balance in a combination of these dimensions. The entire program this year is focused on showing different paradigms in the dimensions, allowing visitors to see that contemporary ideas about PURPOSE, sustainability to find a new balance and fundamental mentality shift.

The seventh edition of the festival will take place from 3 June to 3 July 2021 in Arnhem city center, with a COVID-19 proof set-up, a high-quality hybrid festival, where online and offline events alternate and complement each other. Every week a number of dimensions from the overarching theme 'PURPOSE' are highlighted. FDFA offers depth on the theme every week by means of videos and hybrid events. The programming takes place mainly on Thursdays and Fridays in June and is organized in collaboration with partners of the FDFA.

The digital program consists of an opening week with designer talks on the theme PURPOSE within the ten dimensions. Throughout the month, the FDFA presents digital programs, such as video interviews with the talents within the dimensions, how they create videos about the creative process and craft with local Arnhem designers and substantive visual installations. The FDFA lets experts talk about the hacks for a sustainable, upcycled wardrobe, and where clothing comes from.

The FDFA gives a seminar on PURPOSE & RE-PURPOSE and within the themes talks are hosted about sustainable projects such as The Linen Project and Fashion For Good about the future of circular design and new biobased materials. The Linen Project is investigating whether it is possible to start the local production of flax, linen and (linen) products in a sustainable manner in the Netherlands, so that the quality and origin of the products can be brought back to a local level. On the interactive parts, workshops are given in crafts such as screen printing and knitting. During the Fashion Month, the final exam students of ArtEZ University of Arts and Rijn IJssel Creative Industry will show their graduation collections.

View the program: www.fdfarnhem.nl/programma

Image credit:
1. Collectie Arnhem - Photo: Wendelien Daan / Styling: Mary-Lou Berkulin / model: Lisette Ros
2. PAINTED SERIES (SASKIA VAN DRIMMELEN EN MARGREET SWEERTS) Model Liv tenThije (Tjarda Model Management) / Photo Wendelien Daan ©2020 / Styling Mary-Lou Berkulin

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Winners of the 7th International BIAAF Contest

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Katiuscia Gregoire, Kim Yeong-hyeon and Christian Padilla, are named new winners of the 7th International BIAAF Contest for emerging fashion talent.

Outstanding creativity and the future of fashion came together in Bilbao at the 7th Bilbao International Art & Fashion Contest (BIAAF), which awarded its prizes on November 12th in the Edificio Ensanche. This year, the contest has overcome a series of difficulties, and has maintained its firm commitment to young talent and to continuing to generate opportunities, something "now more necessary than ever and decisive in order to offer them a more promising scenario than the current one", as highlighted by the organisation.

More than 1,250 promising young talents, coming from 90 different countries, have taken part in this edition, which announced its awards live with a streaming broadcasted on November 12th, from the Edificio Ensanche in Bilbao.

An exhibition at the Edificio Ensanche, from 12th to 16th November, brought together the works of the 30 finalists. The winners of each category, chosen by an international jury with representatives from the LVMH Fashion Group, Vogue Talents and Balenciaga Museum have competed for the awards.

The 30 finalists have been chosen from among 1,262 proposals, coming from young talents from 90 countries on all 5 continents. Katiuscia Gregoire (Parsons, U.S.A.) was awarded for the 'Best Outfit Design' with her collection “Hood Dandy”. Kim Yeonghyeon (Kookmin University, South Korea) was awarded for the ‘Best Accessory Design' with her collection “Hideey _Dynamics”, both worth 10,000 Euros. In addition, a special prize recognised the work of the 'Best Emerging Basque Designer', Christian Padilla, worth 5,000 Euros with his collection “Huasi”.

This year's works have been marked by different artistic and cultural references, such as the sculptures of Richard Serra, the photographic series 'The Americans' by Robert Frank, the architectural work of Santiago Calatrava, the novel 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad, the painter Claude Monet and the 'concept of the diagram' by the French philosopher Deleuze. All of these proposals show "the decisive role of emerging designers in a world that is changing", as the organization highlights.

After the awards ceremony, an exhibition curated by Zorrozúa y Asociados in the Atrium of the Ensanche Building brought together, from November 12th -16th, the 30 finalist works, which have been chosen by an international jury made up of representatives from institutions such as the LVMH Fashion Group, Vogue Talents or the Balenciaga Museum, among other personalities.

"Edition after edition, among the proposals we see avant-garde and trends that materialize in commercial collections that will be seen in catwalks years later," says the organization of BIAAF, which highlights the commitment that the city of Bilbao makes with each edition of the event "for the creative industries and for an innovative model that brings together art, design, technology and sustainability in a transversal way”.

The close link between fashion, art and culture is precisely the thread of BIAAF's activity, which, in addition to holding a biannual competition, works to support the work of young designers, give them visibility and offer them a platform to start their careers.

Throughout the 7 editions of the contest, more than 6,000 promising young designers have had a window in Bilbao to show their designs to the world.

About BIAAF

Bilbao International Art and Fashion (BIAAF) is a platform that, with Art and Fashion as its stage, and with young designers as its protagonists, seeks to promote values such as creativity, entrepreneurship, internationalisation, innovation or sustainability.

Its most visible activity, the biannual international fashion design contest, reaches its seventh edition this year 2020, giving hundreds of fashion designers the opportunity to express themselves as they are, to express their personal imagery and to make them known to the world. At the same time, alongside international benchmarks, it also promotes training, thanks to scholarship programmes or master classes created 'ad hoc' to cover their needs.

This year, in the context of the contest, BIAAF has launched the campaign 'Fashion Is Not Just Fashion', with the aim of making visible, promoting and highlighting the different projects developed in fields such as research, high performance education or sustainability, all of which have emerged through the opportunities generated by the competition. Thus, every year, the platform develops high impact initiatives in the creative industries, hand in hand with key agents such as the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the City Council of Bilbao and BBK Fundazioa.

@biaafbilbao

www.biaaf.com

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Become part of Culture.Fashion and work on a future proof fashion sector!

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At the opening of State of Fashion 2018, Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ingrid Van Engelshoven announced that she wants to give an impulse to Dutch fashion by starting a (pilot) fashion program that connects initiatives and increases the cultural power of fashion in society. In February 2020 in Arnhem, the program was introduced with a broad working session. Since than, various fashion parties in the Netherlands have been working on an activity program, on a mapping of Dutch fashion and on a joint narrative.

Culture.Fashion is an open, value-driven, network in the field of fashion and textile that brings dedicated people together. Culture.Fashion will start new local initiatives, stimulate a culture of collaboration, present tools to highlight the Dutch fashion landscape and explore and shape the future of fashion of The Netherlands.

Become part of Culture.Fashion and work on a future proof fashion sector! Go the website of www.culture.fashion to stay updated and connected. More information will be revealed soon.

Culture.Fashion is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

Initiators: Erasmus University Rotterdam, FASHIONCLASH, MAFB, M-ODE, State of Fashion and TextileLab Amsterdam | Waag, Lisa Wolters and a growing network of partners.