The Open Call For Submissions For The 15th Edition Of FASHIONCLASH Festival In Maastricht Has Been Released
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FASHIONCLASH presents the 15th edition of the international & interdisciplinary fashion festival: FASHIONCLASH Festival, from 17-19 November 2023 in Maastricht.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is about discovering, stimulating, co-creating and co-shaping the current developments in fashion – and sharing these developments with a wide audience.
It functions as a platform for designers and artists, as well as a cultural manifestation, where the role of fashion in the context of society is questioned and used to contribute to a positive change.
Using the art of fashion design, we dissect the changing awareness around our relationship with our environment and urgent issues to create a space where new narratives and approaches around the subject of fashion can emerge.
The program reflects the spirit of the world through the art of fashion; an eclectic clash of visions, stories and styles from an outspoken and value driven new generation of designers.
The aim of FASHIONCLASH is to provide a platform where a new generation of designers and artists from various disciplines get the opportunity to present their work to a broad audience, (inter)national press and industry leaders.
Performance Program
The CLASH House
The CLASH House, as part of the Performance Program of FASHIONCLASH Festival, is a showcase for a game-changing new generation of designers, who focus on crossovers with fashion and other art disciplines, in particular with performing arts.
Participants are challenged to experiment with presentation forms in which storytelling, immersive experiences and inclusivity are central.
With The CLASH House, FASHIONCLASH gives each selected participant a coaching trajectory provided by artists from the field of performing arts.
The aim is to develop performances that can contribute to the innovation of the discipline, stimulate artistic development of the designers and facilitate the dialogue on what fashion is and can be.
Fashion Film Program
The fashion film (short fashion film) has become an established format in which designers and brands are presenting their ethics and aesthetics. In this digital era, it is one of the more effective and sustainable ways to capture a fashion narrative and to reach a wide audience via online platforms and media.
Challenging the norms of traditional presentations, advertising techniques, and moving fashion shoots, both independent designers and large fashion houses have embraced film as an art form.
Besides the fashion film genre, there has been a rise of digital fashion in recent years. Designers have been digitally presenting their work in the form of a video or film, out of necessity or because they choose audiovisual tools to present their work.
