Issue 21 – In Conversation with .. 10!

Festival is now a means to present the results
of various projects and processes. For
example, we have residency programs.
At the New Fashion Narratives residency
we invite designers to curate the exhibition
program for the festival with us.
In 2024 we have a new residency program
around Decoloniality and fashion. Creating
space for thinking about decoloniality,
unlearning, revaluing, restoring, etc. is
more important than putting even more new
products into the world.
The Clash House program, with its aim of
developing performances and crossover
between fashion and other art forms, remains
an important focus to contribute to innovation.
With your considerable influence on the
modern fashion scene, how do you perceive its
current trends and future trajectories?
As far as we are concerned, there are
mainly inspiring initiatives among the new
generation of makers. The big brands and the
powerful industry are too slow to bring about
the change needed to save the world from
destruction.
It is important that there are independent
platforms and that value-driven initiatives
receive more attention.
At the end, we are just a small player in
a big world where a lot of power and money
is converted. But we believe that impact
on a small scale is just as valuable. That is
what FASHIONCLASH will try to continue
providing.
What are some aspirations for FASHIONCLASH
in the next edition that you haven’t fulfilled
in previous years?
The program design for this year will not be
very different from last year, we have had
many new activities since last year that we are
very excited about. And we see that there is
a lot of interest in this among the community,
so we are going to further develop a number
of formats.
Attention to decoloniality is a new program
that we will give a real platform to for the
first time this year with the residency and
participation in the Global Fashion Assembly.
We are working on a possible cool new
location. And we are entering into several
new partnerships that will connect fashion
with other art forms. In particular, we want
to investigate collaboration with music, sound
and language disciplines, for example.
Festival edition in November will be
a beautiful and full program.
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