Second Skin Tilburg & Taskforce Fashion - Social Fashion Thinking #1

With Social Fashion Thinking we introduce you to a number of inspiring projects and initiatives that use fashion and/or culture as a means to put social issues on the agenda or to contribute to positive change. In episode #1 we introduce you to Second Skin Tilburg and Taskforce Fashion. Second Skin Tilburg is a multidisciplinary participation project of FASHIONCLASH around fashion in which the design and expression of identity and personal stories of young people from Tilburg North is central. Second Skin Tilburg is part of the larger ForwArt project, which is being realized with the help of, among other things, a European UIA subsidy and the efforts of many stakeholders in Tilburg North. The aim of ForwArt is to use art and culture to prevent young people in Tilburg Noord from ending up in crime. In the context of the Second Skin Tilburg/ForwArt, five designers from Taskforce Fashion Team Tilburg are examining the question of how fashion can play a role in this context. They investigate how young people in Tilburg North express themselves and explore inclusive ways of using fashion as a means to facilitate encounters and dialogues. Collaboration with Taskforce Fashion is one of the first activities that FASHIONCLASH organizes in the context of Second Skin Tilburg. Taskforce Fashion is a collaboration between 3 Dutch fashion platforms: FASHIONCLASH, M-ODE and State of Fashion. In co-creation with Dutch design talent and in dialogue with the (inter)national fashion field a