FASHIONCLASH Festival 2024
The 16th edition of the international and multimedial FASHIONCLASH Festival will take place from 15 - 17 November 2024 in Maastricht (The Netherlands).
During this three-day festival, a new generation of designers and performing artists from all over the world are given the opportunity to show their work to a broad (inter)national audience. The program with an exhibition, performances, talks, workshops and fashion film screenings, showcases projects that explore, contextualize and celebrate contemporary fashion culture.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is accessible to everyone through ticket sales and/or free. The program is currently being developed. The full program will be announced on Thursday 17 October.
The program includes, amongst other things: The CLASH House with fashion performances, New Fashion Narratives exhibition at Bureau Europa, Fashion Film Program & Awards at Lumière Cinema, Fashion Makes Sense participation program at Centre Céramique, Pop-Up Sales event at SNS Expertisecentrum and various other locations and events throughout the town, such as Marres, Dans- en Partycentrum Bernaards , LBG Hotels (The Green Elephant) and Limestone Books.
Campaign image for 16th edition
The campaign, consisting of a series of photos and a short fashion film, is developed in collaboration with Maastricht-based art director Ruben Hilkens, including local performers and students of Institute of Performative Arts, wearing designs by Dirk Vaessen, Peter Wertmann and Batuhan Demir, amongst others.
“The multimedia campaign symbolizes CLASH, the multidisciplinary artistic method of FASHIONCLASH, which stands for the unexpected connections between people, fashion, different art forms and industries. By making surprising connections, FASHIONCLASH explores the role of fashion, the multimedia (fashion) language and new visions and practices. The platform aims to make critical reflection on social issues, visual arts and design visible in an increasingly innovative and practical (hands-on) way. In addition, for each festival edition the campaign project serves as a platform through which we invite designers and artists to express their perspective on FASHIONCLASH and/or fashion (world) in general.”
FASHIONCLASH 2024 campaign by Ruben Hilkens
Team
Camera Operator: Tim Guiking
Assistent: Bart van der Peijl
Styling: Team FASHIONCLASH, with Dirk Vaessen, Peter Wertmann, Batuhan Demir
Hair & Make-up: Perrone Villanueva
Models Keba Fye (The CCC Agency), Mira Verhoeve, Dorothé Hofstede, Hedzer Seffinga
Rental Movie Factory, Studio Fotostudio G2
PROGAM PREVIEW
The CLASH House & Opening at Sint-Annakerk
The festival opens on Friday evening 15 November with the performance program The CLASH House at a special location, namely the Sint-Annakerk (church) in Maastricht. The CLASH House is a showcase and development program for designers who focus on crossovers between fashion and other art disciplines – especially performing arts. These designers explore alternative ways to make and present fashion. Participants are Megan van Engelen, Julia Burak, SHIFT Studio, bzrkna and Paula Dischinger, receive a coaching program in which they are supported by theater maker Nadîja Roza Broekhart and dancer and choreographer Laisvie Andrea Ochoa.
New Fashion Narratives at Bureau Europa
For this year's exhibition program, five fashion practitioners were invited by FASHIONCLASH to form a curatorial team and collaborate on the concept for the New Fashion Narratives exhibition that will be presented at Bureau Europa during the festival. This year's curatorial team includes Chaewon Kong, Karime Salame, Katharina Spitz, Simon Marsiglia and Teresa Carvalheira – a group of fashion makers with diverse backgrounds and practices within and beyond the fashion landscape. They first met during a physical Residency Week (22-26 April 2024) in Maastricht, where they got to know each other and worked on developing the concept.
The exhibition is built around the idea of the game ‘Exquisite Corps’ that serves as a metaphor for the framework for presenting works that are the result of collaborative and/or transdisciplinary practices. A selection has been made of artists, researchers and designers from various disciplines.
Fashion Film Program at Lumière Cinema
The film program at Lumière Cinema offers a platform to designers and filmmakers who experiment with the fashion film genre (short fashion film). The program consists of a selection of 31 films from different countries in the world, thus showing a very diverse range of perspectives, disciplines, cultures and stories. On Saturday evening 16 November, the five finalists will be presented and the FASHIONCLASH Festival Fashion Film Award 2024 and the KALTBLUT. Magazine Award will be presented by the jury consisting of Esther Muñoz Grootveld, Sam Bassett, Pedro Oberto, Donald Gjoka and Marcel Schlutt.
During the festival, three fashion films will also premiere that were produced by FASHIONCLASH and resulted from the Fashion Film development process that was made possible by the Meester Koetsier Foundation.
Fashion Makes Sense, participation program at Centre Cèramique
Fashion Makes Sense is the ongoing participation program of FASHIONCLASH from which projects are developed focused on social design, inclusion, education and collaboration between professionals and semi-professionals/amateurs, especially involving teenagers and young adults. During the festival, the results of a number of projects will be presented such as FASHION x Crafts and TexTiles. In addition, there will be workshops, a presentation of the Kunstbende Fashion winner and the exhibition Handmade of Schone Kleren Campagne (Clean Clothes Campaign).
On Sunday afternoon, 17 November, the Fashion Makes Sense Talk will take place with several designers and artists involved in the participation projects. Followed by a fashion show and performance by Dictator of Art (D.O.A).
But there is much more!
There are exhibitions and performances spread across various locations at Marres, Mariastraat 13 and De Meldkamer. At SNS Expertise Centrum, you can attend the Pop-Up Sales, a showcase where you can discover and buy work by emerging designers and brands.
The full program and the online ticket sale will be announced on Thursday 17 October.
About FASHIONCLASH Festival
FASHIONCLASH Festival is all about discovering and supporting talent, encouraging and helping to shape current developments in the fashion (world), making these developments accessible to a wide audience and initiating active public participation. Participants of the festival belong to a generation of designers and artists who explore and question the boundaries of their discipline. With their works, they move between the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, performing arts and visual arts.
The multi-voiced and multimedia program is a composite selection from various open calls and from projects initiated by FASHIONCLASH itself and developed in co-production with various organizations and makers. For FASHIONCLASH, the annual festival is a vehicle for disclosing the results of all projects and talent development trajectories that happen throughout the year as part of their ongoing annual program.
About FASHIONCLASH
FASHIONCLASH is a development and presentation platform for fashion (culture) that, through crossovers, contributes to, on the one hand, the individual talent development of the new generation of fashion makers and, on the other hand, to general awareness of the role of fashion in the world. FASHIONCLASH believes in the positive contribution that the art of fashion can make to people, culture, planet, environment and economy. With its own (multimedia) language, fashion can help people to establish relationships with themselves, each other, the environment, a world view, and the future.
