Opening: New Fashion Narratives

Exhibition

Friday 17 November | 17:00 - 22:00
INVITE ONLY

New Fashion Narratives represents the current generation of designers who see fashion as a mission. They explore the boundaries of their discipline, question social systems and specifically the fashion industry. With their works, they move between the interdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, visual arts and investigate the relationship with the user/consumer.

FASHIONCLASH invited five fashion practitioners (Enzo Aitkaci, Chinouk Filique, Jonathan Ho, Lotte de Jager and Boris Kollar) to co-develop a multimedia presentation concept for the exhibition program component of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2023. Starting the curatorial process with a Residency Week in Maastricht in April 2023, they developed a concept: instead of focusing all attention on the final product, they prefer to highlight the diversity of creative approaches that are often hidden away as ‘process’. “We are interested in what is rarely made known to the public.”

How would (re)sources from the past, act in the present and create context for the future?
“What happens during the creation process? What types of creative references get used and lost? What are the different collaborations required in order to make one’s final vision come to life? We would like to explore how multi-authorship is represented in fashion and how to unlock new perspectives by zooming in on the creative processes.”

Bureau Europa
Boschstraat 9, Maastricht