EXPO
The fashion designers that shape this exhibition see fashion as a mission. They belong to a generation of designers who explore the boundaries of their discipline and question the system and the fashion industry. With their works, they operate in the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual arts and they always work with the final user/consumer. This way, they introduce contemporary themes such as inclusiveness, gender, consumption and thus new narratives for fashion.
Participating designers
As of Nū (Karmen Samson) | Das Leben am Haverkamp (Gino Anthonisse, Dewi Bekker, Christa van der Meer & Anouk van Klaveren) | Obroni Wa Wu - Dead White Man's Clothing (Linda Valkeman & Carmen Hogg) | NOIJ (Dafne en Nikki Noij) | Gabriel Fontana | Esra Coppur | JANNA WIERINGA | Lisa Konno | The Fabricant
Curator: FASHIONCLASH
Opening hours: Wednesday till Sunday - 12.00 - 17.00
Entrance: € 5,00 (students € 3,00), free admission with the Dutch National Museum card.
Free entrance during FASHIONCLASH Festival (1 - 3 November) and during the opening (Thursday October 17)
TALK
On Thursday October 17, the exhibition New Fashion Narratives was officially opened with the Fashion Talk: New Business Models. The speakers were fashion designers who know how to combine their artistic skills with entrepreneurship and thus introduce new sustainable business models for fashion.
Speakers
Amber Jae Slooten (The Fabricant)
The Fabricant is a digital fashion house operating at the intersection of fashion and technology. The digital-only fashion arena is a place of freedom, fantasy and self-expression. Everyone should have the opportunity to realize their digital identity, or identities, in a way that they choose, expressing who they are, wish to be perceived, or want to become.
Cédric Vanhoeck (Resortecs)
Cédric Vanhoeck is the founder of Resortecs, a company that helps fashion and textile companies with implementing circular economy.
Lidewij Vera Arí van Twillert
Lidewij has developed algorithms to go from 3D scan to custom fit garment. Her lingerie is made by hand in her atelier in Rotterdam. Arí van Twillert also offers 3D printed jewelry that matches the lingerie and still show something of what you wear underneath your clothes.
Flora Miranda
Flora Miranda’s mission is to challenge the obsolete notions of haute couture, and is exploring physical boundary experiences that take place in real and virtual spaces.
Moderator
Saskia van Stein
Saskia van Stein an independent curator, moderator and is headmaster of the MA department entitled The Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
She has been artistic and managing Director at Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, in Maastricht (NL, 2013-2019). Van Stein’s profound interest in the discourse of exhibition making and the ‘politics of curating’ explores different formats and methods of knowledge production and performative display. With broad cultural perspective, van Stein examines issues related to contemporary urgencies and how they manifest on different scales. How these are analysed, addressed, visualised or expressed in the designed environment.
