Emilie Tirion presents Under Depression

Photography: Soe Aitarg

Meet Emilie Thirion, a Belgian Menswear designer. She says she never chose to do fashion design, but instead discovered that this was what she needed, discovering that this was the way she could truly express herself. Therefore, it is not surprising that the concept behind her collection is truly personal. In her new collection, 'Under Depression' she explores an illness that she herself has dealt with on a daily basis. Using it as an inspiration, she went even further. By using her own distorted face in the designs, she wanted to become the face of the illness herself. In an exaggerated version of the garments she personally uses, she wants to emphasises how people with depression feel as they are suffocating, while finding it necessary to partake in the 'play' of life.

Emilie Thirion's collection will be presented at the Show Programme on Saturday the 16th of June. You can get your tickets here.





What made you realize that you wanted to work in (fashion) design?

Nothing at all. Actually, I’ve never wanted to work in Fashion. Before I started to study fashion, I entered an architecture and engineering school which I had prepared and dreamt of since I was 6 years old, and finally I found out it wasn’t my life at all, I was looking for something more human, more creative, more authentic. I remember saying to myself “You have always wanted to be an architect-engineer and it’s a real disaster, why not trying something completely different and very surprising? Maybe this is the key of happiness: a spontaneous and adventurous life.” Two days after, I started fashion courses, and it was the perfect match! Now it’s been 6 years since I’ve decided to choose fashion for no reason, and it couldn’t be more perfect!

Pu Tianqu presents Office Boy

photo Fang Bohung

Pu Tianqu is a Chinese fashion designer, graduated from the Insituto Marangoni, specializing in patternmaking, print and graphic design. His menswear collection, 'Office Boy', explores the balance between 'following the rules' and freedom. Our individual desires inevitably, to different extents, go against societal rules. Pu Tianqu explores whether there is a balance to be found. What would we wear to work if we could wear whatever? Can we combine that with what we should wear?

Pu Tianqu's collection will be presented at the Show Programme on Saturday the 16th of June at the SAM-Decorfabriek. Get your tickets here.

What made you realize that you wanted to work in (fashion) design?
Fashion has always been a part of my family. My mum is a very elegant lady. She has a super big wardrobe full of dresses. And I love to realize my creation since I was really young. I don’t see any reason why not to become a designer.


Why did you choose fashion?
 Ohh, that's a funny story:). I always like to wear something unique and interesting. And I always like to realize my ideas of design as I said. So when I was thinking about my future career at the first time. FASHION just appeared in front of my eyes. I still haven't had a bad feeling about it. So I will probably keep going:)

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FASHIONCLASH is honoured to team up for the 8th time with PL-Line, Maastricht based fashion icon that supports FASHIONCLASH since the very beginning.

LAU by Laura Verdonk | FASHIONCLASH Festival 2017

Photo by Kimberley Zondag

Meet Laura Verdonk.
She is a Dutch designer, based in Houten, The Netherlands. She obtained her first diploma in graphic design in Eindhoven, and then moved to Utrecht to study fashion design in 2011. Four years later (in 2015), she graduated as a menswear designer from the Utrecht School of the Arts. She realized she wanted to work in fashion at the age of 10. She owns a cat named August and she loves him dearly. One of her many guilty pleasures is Christmas music.
Currently she is working on her newest collection named Alexander, which will be presented during the FASHIONCLASH Festival on 1st of July.

"The 'Alexander' collection is inspired by romance and shows an elegant young man with a romantic feel throughout the entire collection using soft colors and fabrics and looking for the boundaries of feminine silhouettes and details."

Find out more about the festival's program and tickets: here.


Q&A with Laura Verdonk

What fascinates/inspires you and why? 
I love to get inspired by striking man types.

What do you want to communicate with your work in general?
With my work I always present an elegant and nonchalant man. I also always push the boundaries between the masculine and feminine.

LAU - by Laura Verdonk at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Meet Laura Verdonk, based in Houten (Netherlands). Graduated from HKU in 2015, Laura presented her new collection 'Benjamin' under her brand LAU - by Laura Verdonk during FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht.

Describe yourself in three words:
Driven, secure and devoted

When did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer? Since I was 10 years old

What are your main achievements in your career at this moment? I just graduated, during my studies my collection received media attention

In what projects are you involved at this moment?
Mijn eerste collectie als LAU – by Laura Verdonk.

Who are your artistic influences or inspirations and why?
I get inspired by striking men types

Can you tell us something about the collection you presented at the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016?
I presented 'Benjamin' collection, dedicated to nonchalant and elegant man by combining decorative and sportive elements. the collection contains many subtle details.

Why have you decided to participate at FASHIONCLASH Festival?
FCF is a nice stage to show my first LAU collection.

What’s a standard day for you?
Ik heb een drukke baan als Visual Merchandiser en mijn vrije tijd besteed ik aan mijn label.

What’s your favourite song, food and movie/TV-show at the moment?
I love R&B but I also have many guilty pleasures.

What is your bad habit? Impatience

Are you a people's person or a loner? A real people's person

Do you have a pet? Yes, a very sweet cat named August that I took from the ayslum

What’s your favourite city? Londen, without a doubt

Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where are you going?
I hope to go to Edinburgh Schotland with my boyfriend

What/Who do you miss the most when you are not at home? my cat August

More information: http://www.laubylauraverdonk.com

JIVIKA BIERVLiET at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

design by Jivika Biervliet | eyewear by Peter Hsieh | photo by Kevin Daniel Croes

Jivika Biervliet is a menswear designer based in Arnhem. In 2010 she graduated from the HKU in Utrecht. In 2012 she started as an independent designer her self titled brand JIVIKA BIERVLiET.
Besides designing menswear she also started with designing kidswear and collaborating with dancers. Her strong preference for menswear arose from the feeling that menswear have more rules. Jivika Biervliet searches for existing borders in order to exceed them. Characteristic for her designs are the materials, the clean lines and also the playfulness within the collections. The pieces are conceptual, experimental and wearable at the same time.

Jivika will collaborate with jewelry designer Peter Hsieh for her new collection, shown on Friday July 1 during Show 2 21:00, get your tickets here. You can also see Jivika Biervliet's work during FASHIONCLASH Festival at the Heritage Exhibition (July 1 + 2 at SAMdecorfabriek)



When did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer? How long have you been designing clothing? 
It actually happened very accidentally. When I was 18 I subscribed for an art contest and chose to design a fashion collection while I had never designed anything. So I just did it and teached myself really quickly how to sew, and then I won (it was a really bad collection). After that I did and entrance exam at the HKU and in 2010 I graduated in the course Fashion Communication. Right after that I started to focus on menswear.

8CUFF at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Seoul born, and Hong Kong based designer Sue Suh is combining all of it in her menswear brand 8CUFF. She graduated from Raffles Hong Kong in 2014. She designs sport-lux streetwear, and her collections are inspired by social issues. Sue Suh is described as a true entrepreneur and design innovator in the fashion industry

8CUFF will present her new collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival on Saturday July 2 Show 3 19:00. You can get your tickets here.

When did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer?  
Two years ago, when I realised that I can communicate through the collection.

What are your main achievements in your career at this moment? 
I used to run a bar and a cafe before studying fashion.

How would you define fashion? 
Communication.

Who are your artistic influences or inspirations and why? 
Everyone around me or I encounter, the fact that individual have different idea and perspective inspires me in all kinds of way.

Finding your own voice is difficult, where and how do you find your personal creativity (before you start designing; during the design process)? 
I think I am still learning that, I try to think of an object from what I have seen (movie, book, news anything!! ) and reflect myself as well as the world that I'm living in and infuse and justify my opinion on it.

What challenges did you face during the design process? 
Literally having no idea when you really need to activate your brain.

Can you tell us something about the project you will present at the FASHIONCLASH Festival? 
The collection's title is Surreal Obsession, which is visioning about uncertainty, anxiety, false desire and obsession.

What does your collection try to communicate (what is it about)? 
Our loop of being anxious about something we desire and we follow the path with shit loads of questions which is normal to be, its the human nature because the world we live in is fucked up, and it will never change.

Describe yourself in three words. 
WOFF ROAR GRRRRR.

Vegan, vegetarian, healthy diet or any food will do? 
‘Food’ will do.

What is your bad habit? 
Recently Im playing my childhood games, cs…

Are you a people's person or a loner? 
Loner.

Do you have a pet? 
YESSS DOGGGGGG.

What’s your favourite city? 
Barcelona, Berlin, Hong Kong.

What/Who do you miss the most when you are not at home? 
iMac and my husband

SANCHEZ-KANE at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

photo by Lance Skundrich

Meet Barbara Sanchez Kane, a Mexican born fashion designer, who is specifically focused on menswear inspired by her mexican heritage. In 2010 she completed her first degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Anahuac. Five years later she graduated from her next degree in fashion design from Polimoda, Florence, after she finished her intership at German designer Bernhard Willhelm in Los Angeles. In the month June of the same year she decided to launch her brand SANCHEZ-KANE.

She will present her new collection 'Courage of the Brave' on Saturday July 2 in Show 3 during FASHIONCLASH Festival. You can buy tickets here.

When did you realize you wanted to be a fashion designer?  
I loved to style myself even in my small town… got a couple of stares from time to time. I ended up studying engineering as it was expected form me, but it never felt quite real. Somewhere in the middle of my BA I had some health problems that just made me change 360 my standing point. Talked to my family about wanting to study fashion and they supported me only if I finished engineering, so I did! Graduated from fashion design from Polimoda in and have been designing ever since.

Bluedenîmes & Minou Lejeune at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

photo by Tyson Ernste

Denimhead Dusty Thomas is a 23-year-old Maastricht-based menswear designer who originally comes from Landgraaf. Her MAFAD graduation collection 'Bluedenîmes' served as a therapy for her, it took away all her insecurities. She loves to create signatures pockets for all her designs.

For FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016, Dusty teams up again with props/accessories designer Minou Lejeune.
You can see their new collection Friday night, Show 1 at 19:30. You can get your tickets here.


Q&A with Dusty Thomas

When did you realise you wanted to be a fashion designer? 
I realized it as a child; I was always drawing clothes. I have been designing clothing since the second year of my study at the MAFAD, Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design. So that’s 5 years in total now.

What are your main achievements in your career at this moment? 
My main achievement is to gain more experience and expand my portfolio. Also I want to make my menswear label Bluedenîmes more well-known. I hope one day I could make a living out of my label and/or I hope to have a nice job as a designer at a denim label in Amsterdam.

Emilie Thirion at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Belgian menswear designer Emilie 
Thirion graduated with
honours in Fashion
Design from HELMo in Liège. She gained experiences during her internship at PANTHEONE in Paris. Her designs are handmade by herself, from the sketch until the the final product.

She will present her new collection 'Big Boy Lost in the big City Life' on Friday July 1 during FASHIONCLASH Festival. You can buy tickets here.

When did you realize you wanted to be a fashion designer? How long have you been designing clothing? 
Very late actually, only a few days before I entered my fashion school. Before that, I enter an architecture and engineering school which I had prepared for and dreamt of since I was 6 years old. Finally I found out this wasn’t my life at all. I was looking for something more human, more creative, more authentic. I remember saying to myself “You have always wanted to be an architect-engineer and it’s a real disaster, why not trying something completely different and very surprising? Maybe that is the key to happiness : a spontaneous and adventurous life.” Two days after, I started my fashion courses, and it was the perfect match! Now it’s been 4 years since I started making fashion design, and it’s my life.

Catarina Oliveira at ModaLisboa - Curiouser

"Balance" FW 2016 by Catarina Oliveira at ModaLisboa  - Lisboa
Fashion Week

 http://www.catarinaoliveira.net/

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

"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.

Jonathan Christopher Homme at MBFWA

Jandino Asporaat and Tygo Gernandt at the show of Jonathan Christopher Homme at Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek Amsterdam

Jonathan Christopher participated at FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2011.

pictures by Team Peter Stigter

http://www.jonathanchristopher.nl

Menswear collections at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012 - Part 1

Barbara Langendijk

Diversity was a key component of FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012! Our spectacular show featured everything from womenswear to menswear and mixed collection.

Get a sneak peek of the 8 amazing menswear collections from some of our most talented designer!

Jivika Biervliet showing at AFW

We met Jivika last year as she was taking part at FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2011 with a very nice menswear collection. few pieces of this collection are sold in FASHIONCLASH STORE. She is showing at the coming Amsterdam Fashion Week, on Thursday 26th of January.
We are looking forward to her show! http://jivikabiervliet.blogspot.com/

* pictures by Peter Stigter.

Marius Op 't Eynde

FASHIONCLASH and SO Management teamed up and created this shoot with photographer Kris Micallef.
The shoot took place in SAMdecorfabriek, amazing location where the 4th edition of 'FASHIONCLASH Maastricht' event will take place 8 - 10 June 2012.

Marius Op 't Eynde graduated from ArtEZ last summer with this SS2012 menswear collection "9'572".
http://www.mariusopteynde.com/


PRODUCTION/STYLING: FASHIONCLASH 
MODELS: Leslie @ SO Management and Kursad 
PHOTOGRAPHY: KRIS MICALLEF 

Branko Popovic and Nawie Kuiper at Runway Malta

Branko Popovic


Nawie Kuiper


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