Milica Vukadinović at Belgrade Fashion Week

FASHIONCLASH Festival designer Milica Vukadinović presented a great new collection at 36th edition Belgrade Fashion Week.
https://www.notjustalabel.com/designer/milica-vukadinovic

KRJST winner Eastpak ArtsThread Competition

A joint initiative between Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx, KRJST is the winner of the EASTPAK x ArtsThread Wildcard Competition.

Inspiration “Montana” is a trip in time and space that reminds us of festive and spiritual traditions. A record of complex memories, emotions and beliefs.

Quote "We only hear about HIV through the past. Our generation needs to understand that it is something real and bring it back to the reality of today."

more: http://artiststudio.eastpak.com/krjst

11th edition of FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland

This autumn 11th edition of Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland Łódź took place on 22-26 of October. FASHIONCLASH Team had a great pleasure to attend for the fifth time and enjoy the biggest fashion party in Poland, to see the collections of Polish designers. We are pleased to see, how designers and the event are developing with every next edition. FASHIONCLASH has also experience with Polish designers - each year FASHIONCLASH Festival receives strong applications from Polish designers as well as choses the best ones to participate in next FASHIONCLASH edition.

We were pleased to see three of FASHIONCLASH designers at Fashion Week Poland: ODIO & Jakub Pieczarkowski, ZWYRD and Baiba Ladiga (for whom, we will present a separate posts on our blog).

Sit-in with Branko Popovic at Centraal Museum Utrecht

No plans for Sunday, October 26?
FASHIONCLASH team member, Branko Popovic, is invited for an afternoon talk with museum's director Edwin Jacobs. Every last Sunday of the month director Edwin Jacobs interviews an artists or person he follows. In this case he invite Branko on behalf of his blog 'BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG'.

The audience has the opportunity to ask questions and thus actively participate in the conversation.

October 26 3 pm - 4 pm
Tuinzaal, Centraal Museum Utrecht
Entrance free, reservations possible by mail: infocentrum@centraalmuseum.nl or phone +31 (0)30-2362353

More information: here http://centraalmuseum.nl

ModaLisboa Legacy

FASHIONCLASH at ModaLisboa - Lisboa Fashion Week

ModaLisboa created its 43rd edition around the theme of 'legacy' during an intense three days programme. From October 10 to 12 both established and emerging designers from Portugal where staged in Pátio da Galé to present their collection for summer 2015.

On Friday evening ModaLisboa opened with of the weekend, Sangue Novo (new blood), a collective show with ten new designers. FASHIONCLASH had the honor to award Inês Duvale with FASHIONCLASH/ModaLisboa award.
In the same Sangue Novo show FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 participants ANDREA LAZZARI Plùs Que Ma Viè and Catarina Oliveira showed their collections.

Thank you ModaLisboa team and people for a great weekend! Looking forward to see you again in March!
http://www.modalisboa.pt 

FASHIONCLASH at Serbia Fashion Week

ANDREA LAZZARI Plùs Que Ma Viè

FASHIONCLASH designers ANDREA LAZZARI Plùs Que Ma Viè and Marko Marosiuk where invited to show their collection at Serbia Fashion Week, an international event that took place from 14 - 19 October in Novi Sad in Serbia.
FASHIONCLASH was also there to officially sign a cooperation agreement with Serbia Fashion Week, which will include exchange of one designer each year. On that occasion FASHIONCLASH awarded on of the finalists of FTDC Finals during Serbia Fashion Week. Winning designers Zorica Jaranski will show her collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015.

http://www.serbiafashionweek.com

'In Performance - Building a Theatre' at Cape Town Fringe

'In Performance - Building a Theatre' project on display during Cape Town Fringe Festival.In the meantime the new children's theatre next to Guga S'Thebe is getting its shape.

'In Performance - Building a Theatre'

Architecture students from Germany, South Africa, and the United States join forces with the local community to build a new venue for performing arts in Langa. The new building provides a place for the community to share their vibrant culture and to celebrate the arts. The young dancers of the Happy Feet Youth Project introduce the Guga S’Thebe Theatre to spectators by exploring dimensionality, sound, and atmospheric presence through the art of dancing in the newly built space for the first time.
In Performance – Building Theatre investigates two methods of building space: one through making with physical materials; and the other through movement and rhythm. Performed by Happy Feet Youth Project (Langa)

Costumes: FASHIONCLASH (Maastricht)
Textile Scenery: IXX creates (Amsterdam)
Choreography: Nathi Gigaba (Langa), Siviwe Mbinda (Langa), Saskia Oidtmann (Berlin)
Initiative: Nora Elisabeth Müller (Berlin) Building Design: RWTH Aachen University/ Peter Behrens School of Architecture, University of Applied Sciences/ Georgia Institute Of Technology/ CS Studio, Carin Smuts (Cape Town)
Project supported by: Creative Industries Fund NL, Showtex (Cape Town), Capetown Sewing

http://www.inperformance.net

(OLD)Fashion(ed) Exhibition Opening & Stroop premiere

(OLD)Fashion(ed) exhibition at Museum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht opened this evening. The opening featured premiere of  the performance 'Stroop', created by Project Sally and designer Sabine Staartjes. For this project they where connected to the craft of syrup, and in particular collaborated with Canisius company.

(OLD)Fashion(ed) is a collaboration with FASHIONCLASH, Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) and Museum aan het Vrijthof.

Four choreographers, four fashion designers were inspired by crafts like metal shaping, papermaking, wheat weaving and syrup making. They created four danced fashion shows or four fashionable dance works, with untrained dancers between the ages of 63 and 80. The project started of with its first presentations during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014.

At Museum aan het Vrijthof you can also visit the exhibition (OLD)Fashion(ed), which will have its festive opening on 21 September and run until 16 November.
More informatiomn about the exhibition: http://www.museumaanhetvrijthof.nl/page_nieuws.aspx?id=598

During the Dutch Dance Festival in Maastricht all four performances of (OLD)Fashion(ed) will be performed. Two of the performances will be shown in the Toneelacademie, and the other two in the monumental Museum aan het Vrijthof during the Dutch Dance Festival (October 3 -5). You can buy a combination ticket that allows you to see all the performances, on the time of your choice -> here

(OLD)Fashion(ed) Participants 
- Dunja Jocic (choreographer), Romy van Eijk (designer) & Ben van Berlo (crafts man)
- Dario Tortorelli (choreographer), Anke Huyben (designer) & Leo Hoegen (crafts man)
- Andrea Leine(choreographer), Linda Friesen (designer) & Ingrid Reinhoud (crafts woman)
- Ronald Wintjes (Project Sally), Sabine Staartjes (designer) & syrup makers craftsmen

More information about the project: http://fashionclash.nl/oldfashioned/

Images of the performance Stroop and exhibtion.
All images in courtesy of FASHIONCLASH.

FASHIONCLASH model at Saint Laurent runway

Kiki Willems from Maastricht that made her debut at FASHIONCLASH Festival had the honor to open Saint Laurent spring summer 2015 runway show.