Within the context of the 4th edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award, FASHIONCLASH teamed up with Chanel Trapman of MUMSTER and will host an online live conversation, centered around the topic of sustainability in fashion; not just focusing on environmental aspects but also including wellbeing, emotions, inclusion and identity.
Date: Wednesday 27th of January 2021
Time: 17.00 – 18.00 (GMT +1)
Where: FASHIONCLASH YouTube Channel
The registration of this conversation will also be broadcasted during the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival on the Friday 26th of February , 21.00 (+1 GMT)
Conversation members: Chanel Trapman (MUMSTER), Branko Popovic (FASHIONCLASH), Daniëlle Bruggeman (Professor of Fashion, ArtEZ University of the Arts), Marian Duff (OSCAM), Roosmarie Ruigrok (Clean&Unique, Reflow Project, Green Deal Circulaire Denim) and award-winning designer Tom van der Borght.
The conversation is due to COVID-19 restrictions not physically accessible but can be watched directly via the YouTube channel of FASHIONCLASH. The registration of this conversation will also be broadcasted during the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival on the Friday 26th of February , 21.00 (+1 GMT)
About the conversation members
Chanel Trapman
Founder of MUMSTER – the conscious fashion movement, a conscious campaign agency and platform, founded in 2016 as a reaction to the failing system of the fashion industry. As a young 22 years-old mother of her then 3-years-old son Mick, she was determined to set the right example for the next generation. MUMSTER is always on the move to find fair and sustainable fashion initiatives to collaborate and raise awareness about the fact we need to change the current fashion system together, and to inspire everyone to take action and make a positive impact in the fashion industry in their own way. MUMSTER connects people, from consumers to government, through their creative conscious campaigns. MUMSTER believes it is important to not only empower the like-minded initiatives that are working toward the fair and sustainable fashion system; for MUMSTER, it is even more essential that their conscious campaigns contribute to the fashion industry as a whole.
Photo: Laura van der Spek
Branko Popovic
One of the co-founders/directors of FASHIONCLASH Foundation. He was born in former Yugoslavia (Croatia) but due to war he and his family immigrated to The Netherlands. Eventually, Branko settled in Maastricht, where he also completed the Fashion Design course at Maastricht Academy of Arts. On behalf of FASHIONCLASH, he is one of the referents of the open value driven network Culture.Fashion and he is often invited as a speaker, jury member (e.g. Dutch Design Awards) and guest lecturer in various contexts.
Next to his work for FASHIONCLASH, Branko has his own multidisciplinary studio for a period of ten years with focus on fashion & costume design and has he been involved in various performing arts projects. He reports about art and culture for his personal blog and occasionally for other online magazines. Between 2017 and 2020 he was a member of the advisory committee at Creative Industries Fund NL.
Photo: Sem Shayne
Daniëlle Bruggeman
A cultural theorist, specialized in fashion and identity. In January 2017, she was appointed as Professor of Fashion at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She teaches at both the MA Fashion Strategy and the MA Fashion Design at ArtEZ, and leads the Centre of Expertise Future Makers in collaboration with dr. Jeroen van den Eijnde. Daniëlle Bruggeman holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, which was part of the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project on fashion in the Netherlands, ‘Dutch Fashion Identity in a Globalised World’ (2010-2014) at Radboud University in Nijmegen, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. She has been a visiting scholar at Parsons, the New School for Design (NYC), and at London College of Fashion. She has published on topics like the fluid, performative and embodied dimensions of identity, (Dutch) fashion photography, and fashion as a new materialist aesthetics. Her current research interests include exploring more engaged approaches, vocabularies and strategies, using fashion as a tool for systemic change and societal transformation. On April 25, 2018, Daniëlle Bruggeman gave her inaugural lecture and presented the accompanying publication Dissolving the Ego of Fashion: Engaging with Human Matters.
Photo: Bert Beelen
Marian Duff
Founder and director of OSCAM and MAFB. OSCAM is the museological platform for art, fashion, design, craftsmanship and development in Amsterdam and aims to stimulate and increase the interest in the arts, particularly for the residents of Amsterdam and especially the Bijlmer area. They show high-quality presentations of art, fashion, design, craftsmanship and development, through educational and participatory programs. By involving known and unknown creative talents in their exhibitions and programs, OSCAM inspires the youth and fulfils the need of a connection platform with other social art institutes in Amsterdam.
Roosmarie Ruigrok
While working as a buyer, Roosmarie Ruigrok discovered her passion in fair supply chains. After she sold her company Promax Corporate Fashion, Roosmarie worked as CSR consultant at Amnesty International, Elsewear Foundation, known by “Green is the new Black” and Fair Wear Foundation. In 2007, she founded the ethical fashion platform Clean & Unique. Roosmarie also worked for Fairtrade as Cotton Manager and introduced Fashion Revolution in the Netherlands. Currently she works for the municipality of Amsterdam on the Reflowproject and the Green Deal Circulaire Denim.
Photo: Ayaan Hanewald
Tom van der Borght
A multidisciplinary artist with a focus on both fashion, artistic research and performance. Tom van der Borght studied at the Toneelacademie Maastricht after he first graduated from Stedelijke Academie Voor Schone Kunsten Sint Niklaas (SASK) in 2012 and describes himself as a ‘d.i.y. person’ -the current situation mainly triggers him to learn new things in order to become ultra-self-sufficient as a designer and an artist. He is not in search of traditional beauty or honey-sweet cutesiness. Tom creates bold combinations of bright colors, psychedelic graphics and textures made for a true bombardment of the senses, while always on the look-out for the unconventional and questioning mainstream social structures. What does society consider normal and why?
Tom participated in FASHIONCLASH Festival in 2013,2014 and 2019 and in 2019 he was the winner of the FASHIONCLASH Festival Award. In 2020, he won the Grand Prix & Public Prize during the 35th edition of the prestigious Festival de Mode de Hyères.
The 4th edition of the Fashion Makes Sense Award is supported by the Provence of Limburg, Municipality of Maastricht, Meester Koetsier Foundation and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.