Meet Georgina Santiago from Spain

Please introduce yourself: 
My name is Georgina Santiago, I am from Igualada, a town near Barcelona, Spain, and I graduated in June 2012 at ESDI, Barcelona. Nowadays, I create synergies between fashion and art with a constant obsession for color.

What inspires you in general?

Colors are my main inspiration. I found out that color can tell more than a word.

Where are you based?

I am based in my hometown, Igualada.

What is it like to be a young designer in your city/country?

I used to go to Barcelona several times a week, to look for materials and inspiration. My town is just too small, but being a designer near Barcelona is grateful. There is a good cultural scene, music, galleries, restaurants, bookshops...but there is also a lack of other things that cities like Berlin or Amsterdam have.

Uta Bekaia & Ideal Glass NY present a multimedia show 'The Purple Jester'

Please introduce yourself to our readers. (Who are you, where do you come from and what is your field of specialization?)

I’m Uta Bekaia, a designer and multimedia artist interested in exploring art wear, clothing as sculpture, performance and based in New York City. I’m going to be present at ‘FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2013’ with project ‘The Purple Jester’, a multimedia performance created by me and our creative group, Ideal Glass NY.

MCFOOL by Malou Fool

Please introduce yourself: 
I'm Malou Fool. I am 22 years old and I live in Voorburg. Two years ago I graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Currently I'm busy with setting up my own men’s label. Beside designing and making clothes I also make leather bags for men.

What inspires you in general? 
For my collections I get inspired by collected objects that give me a certain feeling. With that feeling I can make sketches for a new collection. Beside that, I can also get inspiration from people on the street. My interest goes out to people who combine clothes with each other.

Where are you based? 
My studio is based in The Hague next to the highway at the exit Voorburg.





What is it like to be a young designer in your city/country? 
As a young designer it is really hard to start your own label. There are chances but it is difficult.

Textile designer Jolijn Pasmans

Please introduce yourself to our readers. (Who are you, where do you come from and what is your field of specialization?)

Jolijn Pasmans: a materialist, texturist and inspirator.

Being a designer, I create materials and forms to inspire other designers and producers within the field of fashion and interior. Tactility, texture and atmosphere are very important in my designs.

During my study at the Design Academy in Eindhoven I fell in love with textile and textile techniques, which are now part of my main skills. Other materials like plastics and concrete are also within my expertise.

My way of working is very impulsive and experimental. I always have to create a mess in order to design, after this messy stage the analytical stage starts. I think this process comes from my youth, in which everything was allowed. In school I have always tried to stay true to this way of designing, and I still do.

Call for entries for Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2013

* DATES, CURATORS, JUDGES AND PARTNERS CONFIRMED

* SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED

Berlin, May 2013 ­
The outstanding judges, partners and curators of the 2013 edition of the Berlin fashion Film Festival have been confirmed and are now being announced.
The curating team is composed by the monthly cinematic experience Berlin Film Society, the events management company and showroom FIER management, the fashion film agency Furore Film, and the London College of Fashion.
Each curator will select a number of fashion films from their network and from the official Berlin fashion Film Festival open call, now extended until May 15, 2013, as the finalists to be screened and awarded at the Berlin fashion Film Festival Award Ceremony on July 4, 2013 during Berlin Fashion Week 2013.

BFFF Submission form: http://berlinfashionfilmfestival.net/open-call/

The finalists will be judged by an international jury according to different categories, formed by: filmmaking duo Alexandliane for Best Cinematography, makeup artist and beauty expert Boris Entrup for Best Makeup and Hair, international star DJ HELL for Best Music, Final Cut editor James Rose for Best Editing,creative director Michael Schachtner for Best Idea/Script, Vogue Italia’s senior editor Sara Maino for Best Fashion, and international Production Designer Steve Summersgill for Best Production Design.

About Berlin fashion Film Festival: Berlin fashion Film Festival takes place once a year during Berlin Fashion Week. It presents fashion in a innovative way, combining film with fashion presentations, whilst grouping together outstanding film directors, emerging fashion talent and influential characters of the international creative scene.

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Handmade Jewellery by Lucie Houdková from Prague

Please introduce yourself to our readers. (Who are you, where do you come from and what is your field of specialization?)

My name is Lucie Houdková. I was born in Brno, it´s the second largest city of the Czech Republic. I studied Academi of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and I graduated two years ago. I attended studio of Metal and Jewellery which was renamed K.O.V. (Concept, Object, Meaning). My specialization is jewellery and design.

Label2 by Alen Pinku and Andrea Popovic

Now living in Milan, Italy, the two designers of Label2 are Alen Pinku, originally from Serbia, and Andrea Popovic, from Bosnia. The two met during their studies and started working togther.  

You are from Serbia but you are living in Italy at the moment. How do you perceive those two environments in terms of fashion and style? 
That is quite interesting, and we are very proud about our rich history, which is always present as the idea. At the beginning, both of us had different views, but living and growing up here slowly changed our minds. 

What inspires you in general? 
Music, people, art, details… 

What is it like to be a young designer in your city/country?
It is quite difficult, but we are fighters. 

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.

Theatrical Encounters: '[un]folding space' by Juliette Bogers

Juliette Bogers, born in Roosendaal, a little town in the south of the Netherlands near the border of Belgium. Growing up close to a border made me become curious to know what´s behind. Different cultures, different perspectives and different point of views offer an inspirational knowledge of world we are living in. When exploring the boundaries of the field of fashion to search my place in it, I feel the same urge to know what´s behind and by what it’s inspired. By working with different disciplines within the same period of time, new perspectives broaden and inspire my view on the field. Photography and choreography are two disciplines that are close to me; the first one looks at the world from another perspective and the second one explores your place and space in it. I love to work and design with the moulage method; the fabric leads the design around the body until the most ultimate form is found.

D.an.D Infinite by Danielle Dentener

Danielle Dentener is the founder of bag brand D.an.D infinte. 
The unique designs of different bags combine the inspiration of life and nature according to Danielle. 
She likes to observe people and get what people want from the observation. Starting from helping her mom with the work in the fashion store when Danielle was young, her  story of fashion begins.