Hools of Fashion

The Alliance of International Production Houses has not only been specialising on the international performing arts for the last ten years but also on local artistic strategy. In urban neighbourhoods, on-site networks and in collaboration with self-empowering communities, a diverse and viral communal art emerges. At The “Claiming Common Spaces” festival in Düsseldorf, the Alliance members and their partners invite the audience to an encounter.

“Hools of Fashion” is a fashion collective that emerged from the Migrantpolitan community at Kampnagel in Hamburg. The underground label operates at the intersection of street couture, community activism, and “glampowerment”. In the Secret Shop, you can shop for the Hools’ statement pieces or have your own items customised. Are you DIY fashionistas yourselves? Then bring your work along and be inspired!

Migrantpolitan on the Kampnagel building in Hamburg is an action space wherein diasporic and local artists enter an exchange process, develop transcultural strategies together and try out new aesthetic practices. This microcosm is a laboratory for solidary collaboration in which new ideas emerge, cultural self-determination has its firm place, and wherein a whiff of anarchy is part of the inventory.

Total duration of the the Art of Community event: 5 hours.