Everyone knows those signs with crazy, iconic or cartoonish bodies in which you can stick your head through a cutout hole. For a brief moment you imagine yourself in someone else's body.
We are looking for creatives who, together with fashion designer Antoine Peters and theater maker Lieke Benders, want to make 'Stand-In boards' for a series of performances during the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2021. Everyone is welcome, experience is not required!
Fashion designer Antoine Peters and theater maker Lieke Benders use this concept to play with identity, and to question the (expressive) power of clothing and someone's personality. The 'Stand-In boards' do not contain headless cartoon characters, but unique 'looks'. These are created in collaboration with workshop participants. Based on their personal story, they create an outfit on a plate. What happens when someone expresses himself without restrictions, and without body and face, in textiles?
During the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2021, the 'Stand-In boards' roam the city of Maastricht. What happens when you step into a look and your own clothes are disconnected from your head? What does your clothes communicate without your face? Can you identify with the creator of the look and unravel his personal story? Do you put yourself in someone else's shoes, literally and figuratively? Or is your personality stronger than your adopted 'look'? The outfits challenge you to connect with someone else and with yourself.
STAND-IN is a project by fashion designer Antoine Peters and theater maker Lieke Benders, initiated in the context of the FASHIONCLASH participation trajectory Fashion Makes Sense. For STAND-IN, FASHIONCLASH works together with The Masters.