Matteo Carlomusto presents MURCIELAGO

Photography: Enrico Berni

Matteo Carlomusto is an Italian menswear designer. In his first  capsule-collection, exhibited in a show and in a presentation during Pitti Uomo, he experimented a mix between sportswear and traditional female costume of the Islamic culture, the burqa. Further in his work he has brought together the conservative world of Islam and the sexual practice of Bondage. The aesthetics of his new collection, MURCIELAGO SS19, builds upon this concept, however merging it with a fresh and rude taste. The collection is a claim and exaltation of erotic charge, arrogantly riding the road like a green Lamborghini Murcielago.

MURCIELAGO SS19 will be presented at the Show Program on Saturday the 16th of June at the SAM-Decorfabriek. Get your tickets here.

What are your sources of inspiration?
 My work is constantly evolving. At this moment of my creative process I can say that my greatest source of inspiration is photography, I’m in love with Joel Peter Witkin, Antoine D’Agata and Nan Goldin’s tales . Through their images I can my mind travels. I am very attracted to bodies: from the animal world to the human figure in all its forms, I love to see them together as a single body that gives life to something new. For this reason I love the raw part of every simple thing, but at the same time I’m fascinated by the human mind, which is able to give life to something unique that is not found in nature. I hate the social impositions ... and it is precisely for this reason the reading of my projects is interpreted in the best way by subcultures and denigrated communities, like the young queer who made a new image, that nature has not given them and the society tries to hide , but actually exists. And it has always existed. I find my inspiration in the submerged world that I love to shape with my personal taste.

Alessandro Trincone - FASHIONCLASH Festival 2018

photo Ilaria D'Atri

Alessandro Trincone is an Italian fashion designer and owner of the brand that bears his name. Winning the FASHIONCLASH Festival talent award 2016, he is now presenting at the FASHIONCLASH Festival for the third time.
In his collections, Alessandro has been researching the topic of gender, focusing on genderless clothing and pushing the barriers of what is traditionally considered 'feminine' or alternatively 'masculine' clothing. This continues to be reflected in his newest collection 'Aroundmi'. The collection takes a stance against the 'massification' and globalisation of style. By breaking down the standard parameters, the collection aims to differ from the masses while still keeping an haute-couture taste.

Alessandro Trincone's collection will be show-cased at the Show Programme on Saturday the 16th of June at the SAM-Decorfabriek. You can get your tickets here.

What made you realize that you wanted to work in (fashion) design?
 Curiosity was what made me realize that I wanted to enter the fashion world. I was curious to experiment my fantasies on the garments and see what will happen.

Why did you choose fashion? 
Actually I didn't choose fashion. It just happened right after high school. I didn't know what I wanted to, do so I just tried. But I'm very happy, because, trying in fashion I realized that was just exactly my world, exactly my position.

Would you say are your main achievements in your career?
The main achievements of my career is for sure the collaboration with Young Thug for his album cover in 2016, the NYFW with Vfiles and the win of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016  Among the contests won, Fashionhall 2017 in Berlin and Charity Fashion show 2017 in Cambridge stand out.

What are your sources of inspiration?
My source of inspiration is myself. Maybe it sounds selfish as an inspiration, but it's a process that I'm doing with myself to pass over my bad experiences.

Why did you decide to participate in FASHIONCLASH 2018? What are your expectations?
I decided to participate at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2018 because it's my favorite show. People there are friendly, kind, nice and well organized. Seriously, the best show that I ever done.

SCIUMÉ at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

Today we are introducing Valentina Sciumé: an Italian designer, now based in Milan. She has been a designer for more than ten years. Her overwhelming passion for fashion, combined with her multiple job experiences, leaded her to launch her own brand of accessories, SCIUMÉ, two years ago. This year she will participate at designer market at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015. Get ready to meet her and her collections by then!

http://www.sciumeaccessori.com/it/

Q&A with designer Valentina Sciumé:

How would you describe your work? 
I think it's one of the most creative and dynamic jobs. It involves both precision and techniques, not only creativity. Before starting every new collection, I always do lots of research about the theme, new materials, and colors that I might use. When my ideas are clear enough, I start designing the technical part. And then after a meeting with suppliers, I make the first prototypes. Finding your own voice is difficult, where and how do you find your personal creativity? I look for creativity through my travels and landscapes. But creativity always occurs to me suddenly at an unknown moment. I need to see new things, walk and be aware of the details of the cities where I stay. Sometimes, even a building can trigger my new ideas. That’s what stimulates my creativity from time to time.

YOJIRO KAKE at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

Today we introduce you to our next FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 participant - YOJIRO KAKE. The brand consists of  Yojiro Kake from Osaka Japan and the partner Oka HuiYun Lin from Formosa in Taiwan, but currently they are based in Florence, Italy. YOJIRO KAKE has participated already last year the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 and they describe their work as an endless dream of kid. They seek to explore the playful methods based on menswear tailoring and the most pleasant thing is the customer understanding and enjoying the mood of their designs.

Find out more about our fashion show case, market and Side Program (SHOWPIECES, exhibition at De Bijenkorf Maastricht) participant below!


Who are your artistic influences or inspirations and why? 
The life around us, may be a story happened to some neighbor or dying plant we pass by.

Finding your own voice is difficult, where and how do you find your personal creativity (before you start designing; during the design process)?
About design, we may say itself is quite personal, and we just do and design generated from the bottom of heart, stick to it and that’s it. 

What was the most important thing your parents taught you, that you now bring into your work? 
The childhood memory of Yojiro’s father and father’s friends wearing suits.

Which item in your wardrobe really typifies you and why? 
One pair of stylish black leather boots which is broken like something else from Yojiro’s studio.

What is your most favorite accessory and why? 
A simple necklace Yojiro made with a small scissors. The most practical item he has made ever.

How would you define fashion? 
Some kind of illusion? 

Are you a people's person or a loner?
We are two loners. 

What do you strive for in your work? 
To realize our imaginations. 

What are the key factors in your design?  
The appliance of menswear patterns. 

What makes your items different from others (What is your designing philosophy)?
Inspiring errors. 

"Fashion needs to progress year in year out, how do you keep innovating? 

Keep dreaming nightmares. "

YOJIRO KAKE at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

What is the contemporary condition of fashion in your place of residence? 
Florence is a famous tourism spot, stylish people from all around the world. The great thing is PITTI UOMO, the most interesting menswear party only happens here in Florence which is an inspiring street show for us. 

What is your ultimate goal? What do you want to achieve with your projects? 
We have no idea about any ultimate goal except to keep realizing our thoughts gradually. 

What are your views on gender categorization in fashion ? (as in differentiating between male/female collections, is this necessary ?) 
Is not necessary only into two genders, may have unisex or others. However female/male category might be always there, like the two ends with mixtures in between. 

Pattern-making 

Do you believe the western binary gender system (male/female) will eventually disappear? 
No. 

What are your thoughts on the idea that unisex is the new androgynous in fashion ? 
Shall be interesting and practical for the market.


What has changed/happened since your last attendance at FASHIONCLASH?
We may say that we started to develop collaborations with some boutiques located in Florence Italy, it’s an inspiring progress for us. 

Why have you decided to participate at FASHIONCLASH Festival once again? 
FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 is a great experience along with economic fee for us, the team is professional, punctual and well-­‐organized. Therefore, this time we would like to participate again also the design market, as FASHIONCLASH Festival is getting more and more ambitious and popular, we believe there we will find out more about the target and ourselves.

YORJIO KAKE Backstage at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014

"Plùs que ma vìe" by Andrea Lazzari, menswear from Italy

Preview of the Labyrinth collection

Meet Andrea Lazzari! He is 22 years old and comes from Venice, Italy. He specializes in menswear and his brand, Plùs que ma vìe, is based in Mestre, next to Venice. Andrea Lazzari will be presenting his collections during the fashion show and the designer market.

What inspires you in general? 
My inspiration starts within myself. All the things that come through my mind are then assimilated with art and the world that surrounds me.

What place or city do you find inspiring? 
If I were to say a European city, I’d say Copenhagen. On another continent, it would have to be New York. If I were to say a particular place, I would say my room and its silence.

What is it like to be a young designer in your city/country? 
People that surround me are very curious and interested in what I do. My work and the choices I make are often regarded as a reference point.

Meet fashion designer Maddalena Mangialavori

Please introduce yourself: My name is Maddalena Mangialavori and I'm a young Italian fashion designer. I've always had an inexplicable but visceral passion for fashion, and after my BA in fashion design in Florence I decided it was time for me to do a more "international" experience. So I came to London. I just graduated at a Master Level, after 17 months of hard work, in Fashion Design Technology at London College of Fashion.

What inspires you in general? I'm a traveller. I've always been since I was a kid, and I'm used to absorb as much as I can from the places I visit, from different cultures, different traditions. I would say inspiration comes from opening yourself to a certain reality and let some of that reality touch your chords. But inspiration is just the beginning of a journey, it just points me a direction and once I find it I usually spend a loooot of time researching and digging on a certain topic, and THAT really feeds my creativity.

Where are you based? I now divide myself between London and Italy.