The Paris fashion museum Palais Galliera organized the Festival Fashion-Z on April 25th and 26th in cooperation with the Métiers d’Art & Design (Momade). The event, which was first organized by the institution, highlighted tomorrow by bringing discourses and work from researchers: interior, experts, influencers: inside and young students.
The festival began on Friday, April 25, with one -hour discussion rounds on current topics and challenges: sustainability, decolonialism, transgression and experiments in the extensive fashion sector. An exhibition with installations and photographs as well as silhouettes designed by students of the partner network invited the participants: inside, deepening the reflections in contemplative and sensual way.
The next day, the Palais Galliera turned into a temple of creativity with freely accessible workshops. The visitors: Inside, sewing tower bags and T-shirts, which led to common works of art, which were unveiled in the inner courtyard of the museum. Interested parties were seduced to the card game “Les Petits Héros Durables” (preliminary name), which aimed to “sensitize the various materials of fashion and their environmental effects in an entertaining way”. Detailed visitors: Inside, the transformation of household washing through colorful and filigree embroidery devoted themselves. The most popular workshop, however, was undoubtedly that of Maroussia Rebecq, in which participants: re -styled and invited inside, was theatrically pose alongside an actress. The event ended with a closing ceremony, in which Rick Owens and his partner Michèle Lamy were spotted very discreetly.
In the following, Fashionunited takes up the most important food for thought of the Fashion-Z Festival.
Make sustainable fashion accessible
The topic of sustainability in fashion is not new. In recent years, numerous initiatives and projects have emerged and become popular to make the fashion industry more responsibly: the rise of second-hand apps, the introduction of a repair bonus, the increase in second-hand shops and pop-up stores for vintage mode, to name just the best known examples.
At the same time, fast-fashion and ultra-fast fashion brands continue to make a significant share of the clothing market, which reminds us that sustainability in fashion is never a matter of course and must be constantly being rejected.
In cooperation with the Momade Campus, the Palais Galliera organized one of Andrée-Anne Lemieux, director of sustainable development at the IFM, moderated round of talks with Zoé Hotuqi, vintage-fashion influencer and author of “Vintage and Second-Hand”, Sakina M’SA, founder of the brand of the same name, and others. The participants explained how they started to be interested in these topics and how to continue to deal and get involved with these topics.
A large part of the workshops was also dedicated to upcycling and reuse by simple steps and invited participants: inside for sewing, embroidery, drawing or cutting fabrics. The goal? To show that these activities can be integrated into daily practice.
Understand clothing as a social act
The second and third rounds tried to go beyond the purely aesthetic dimension of clothing and to question their social and political role in our society.
“The wearing of a piece of clothing is never a purely individual practice. The body fits into the collective through the clothing,” according to the introduction of the second round of talks, in which participants participated with different profiles: Marine Kisiel, doctor of art history and collection manager in the Palais Galliera; Marine Chaleroux, doctoral student in contemporary history; Gael Calderón, design student at IFM; and Etna Malone, dancer. Their different perspectives reminded that clothing is more than just a means of expressing an individual style, but is associated with a number of symbols and connotations. Above all, however, it is inseparable from the body and intimacy: depending on the social, cultural or political environment, it is used to reveal, hide or indicate.
The third round of talks, moderated by five students of the Arts Décoratifs – PSL and Annabela Tournon Zubieta, lecturer for colonial studies, welcomed the fashion historian Khémaïs Ben Lakhdar and the lawyer Glynnis Makoundou specializing in copyright and intellectual property. With their respective expertise, they based on examples questioned the effects of colonialism on fashion design, redefined the terms of cultural appropriation and appreciation and threw forms of re -appropriation of their own inheritance by minority cultures.
The Palais Galliera and the Momade campus offered a stage to explore these essential questions in order to understand yesterday’s fashion and present that of tomorrow, and did so for an audience of amateur: inside, experts and curious.
Focus on student creativity
While the last round of talks offered some students of the École Duperré the opportunity to present the ideas and stories behind their projects, the entire festival was committed to promoting multidisciplinary student creativity and offering their space. During the workshops, the exhibiting students exchanged their look with the audience in an encounter enriching for all enriching.
The Fashion-Z Festival was a complete success with a sold-out discussion round and almost 800 visitors: inside of all ages in the workshops. This is proof of the great interest in this type of events, as a participant confirmed: “We really expected this kind of events in the Palais Galliera.”
As a partner of the museum, the Momade campus offers a network of training institutions and institutional partners: inside fashion and design, including École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, École Duperré and the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM). His mission: the promotion of all types of training, from vocational training to research.
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