ATELIER AÏCHA ABBADI
info [at] aichaabbadi.com
critique, discuss, suggest, act | form collectives and cooperations | teach your skills locally | focus on the periphery | swap, repair, remake, support
Fashion:
a. a system of social relations
b. a device for poetic expression
c. an existential smokescreen →
writing + research
[UPCOMING] WAREHOUSE NOBODY'S (*Everybody's!) FASHION WEEK STREETWARE SAVED ITEM DESIGN AS COMMON GOOD WAREHOUSE
ADDRESS JOURNAL
→ Performative Processes
→ New Mentorship
→ Archivist-Creators
→ Alternative Fashion Media
→ Future Fashion Education
→ Mended Scars
→ Second Life
→ Fast Fashion Disruption
BLOOMSBURY FASHION CENTRAL
STATE OF FASHION
THE END OF FASHION
MONUMENT Issue III, 2021 →
Warehouse Review 002 | 'A Review of Reviews', 2021
Out of the Shadows: Are we there yet?, 2021 →
Embedded Research, in progress, 2021 →
Speculative Citizen Design, 2020/21
A Magazine Reader and the rise of the Unglossies, 2020
Fashion from the Shadows Series, 2017-2019
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 13.01.2019
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 14.08.2018
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 25.02.2018
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 14.11.2017
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 12.09.2017
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 20.07.2017
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 26.06.2017
ADDRESS Journal for Fashion Criticism, 24.05.2017
Designer Biographies, 2018
Searching for the New Luxury: Authentic Fashion Products!, 2018
The Rag Trade, 2016
practice
about
Aïcha Abbadi
*1993, G.D. Luxembourg
lives and works in Berlin (DE)
Through theory and practice, Aïcha Abbadi explores fashion's boundaries and reflects on the discipline itself: its narrative potential and poetry, the industry's complex social relations, its ethical and environmental shortcomings as well as its optimism, dedication and potential solutions. Interested in niche fashion practices and alternative ways of making and being in fashion, she considers these contributions to be essential for a shift in perspective that interrupts fashion's main narratives.
She is also invested in neighborhood initiatives in Berlin that create shared community spaces and foster active participation, for creative, culturally and socially diverse environments.
Current works in progress include an upcoming fashion publication and embedded research at Berlin-based project Streetware Saved Item. Alongside these, she is currently assisting with research for a contemporary art editions project initiated by Schellmann Art, Munich – New York.
PRESENTATIONS
2021 – Problematising Fashion: Culture, Society & Meritocracy, Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design (UK) Online Session
2021 – This is an Intervention, State of Fashion (NL) Online Exhibition
2021 – Panel Talk – Future Scenarios for Crisis and Resilience, Design as Common Good – Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values, Swiss Design Network, Online (CH) Conference
2021 – Panel Talk – Whataboutery 03: 'fashion against capitalism', State of Fashion, Online (NL)
2019 – Deep Fashion State of Mind book release, The Publisher, Berlin (DE)
2018 –
Where are we now? Authorship in Design #2, Designtransfer, Berlin (DE)
MA Graduate Exhibition
2018 –
Searching for the New Luxury, Musis, Arnhem (NL)
Conference & Exhibition
2013-2018 –Rundgang, University of the Arts Berlin (DE)
Annual Open House
2017 –
At the limits of perception and cognition, Schillerpalais, Berlin (DE)
Group Exhibition
2013-2017 –
Annual fashion show of the University of the Arts Berlin, various locations
2016 –
The End of Fashion, Massey University, Wellington (Aotearoa NZ)
Conference & Exhibition
2015 —
KANAAN Food x Fashion x Music Fusion, Willner Brauerei, Berlin (DE)
Intercultural/Interdisciplinary Event
EDUCATION
2018 – MA Design (Interdisciplinary), University of the Arts Berlin
2016 – BA Design (Fashion), University of the Arts Berlin