Fashionclash Festival 2021 Goes Virtual—Allowing Designers From All Over The World A Chance To Show Their Work
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THIS YEARS’ DIGITAL EDITION
Welcome to the 12th edition FASHIONCLASH Festival! During this three-day online festival, a new generation of designers and performing artists from all over the world get the opportunity to show their work.
The program for this digital edition contains exhibitions tours, interviews, fashion performances and cross-overs with theatre and dance but will also stage three live program components: the Fashion Makes Sense Award Show, The Locals and The Clash House.
NEW FASHION NARRATIVES
The fashion designers at the heart of the New Fashion Narratives exhibition take fashion as a mission. They belong to a generation of designers who are exploring the boundaries of their discipline and questioning the system and the fashion industry. The works move between the trans-disciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual art and always work with the ultimate user or consumer. Introducing contemporary themes such as inclusivity, gender, consumption they create new narratives for fashion. You will get to know the participants and their work, guided through the exhibition by fashion journalist & writer Philippe Pourhashemi.
Friday 26 February
FASHION MAKES SENSE AWARD
The Fashion Makes Sense Award is a motivation prize for young sustainable fashion designers. The aim of the project is to contribute to talent development and to raise awareness on issues related to sustainability in fashion with a larger audience.
Saturday 27 February
LIVING EXHIBITION
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture will be transformed into a digital house for crossovers between fashion, performance, visual art and film.
The participants of the Living Exhibition have been invited by FASHIONCLASH to develop and present their work in an interdisciplinary way.
Friday 26 February
CLASS OF 2020
Class of 2020 presents a selection of graduation projects of several Dutch fashion & design academies.
The selected projects are not a "best of", but a translation of the zeitgeist of this generation.
During the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival you will be guided through the Class of 2020 exhibition and during a Talk, moderated by Rolien Zonneveld, the graduates will be invited into a dialogue about graduating in times of a pandemic, their future plans and vision on fashion.
Saturday 27 February
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
The activities as part of Individual Events are initiated by (local) designers and artists and co-created in collaboration between FASHIONCLASH and partners as Toneelacademie Maastricht, Via Zuid and Toneelgroep Maastricht.
You will get to know the participants and their work through various video portraits and reports that have been created leading up to the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festiva
Friday 26 February
THE LOCALS
A group of designers who each have a connection to the city of Maastricht and the province of Limburg, each on their own way.
They will present their new collections individually, yet in a collective form.
During the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival you will get the opportunity to get to know the participants and their work, up close and personal.
The Locals is initiated within the framework of the Fashion House project, supported by Gemeente Maastricht and Provincie Limburg.
Saturday 27 February
THE CLASH HOUSE
Focusing on performative experiences, the participating designers of The Clash House are challenged to actively experiment with forms of presentation and inclusive audience participation.
Designers participating in The Clash House entered into a dialogue with performing artists Mami Izumi and Giovanni Brand, with additional support of our long-term partner SESSIBON, to create a unique presentation form for their new collections.
During the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival you will be guided through the process of creating the collections and the presentations and see its final result.
Saturday 27 February
