writing + research
VISCOSE JOURNAL ZLB VALIZ MONUMENT RESPONSIBLE FASHION SERIES WAREHOUSE NOBODY'S (*Everybody's!) FASHION WEEK STREETWARE SAVED ITEM DESIGN AS COMMON GOOD WAREHOUSE
ADDRESS JOURNAL
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BLOOMSBURY FASHION CENTRAL
STATE OF FASHION
THE END OF FASHION
Contribution – 'Viscose 06 - Text', Fashion Text Collaborative Glossary, June 2024 →
Curation – ZLB: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin [Berlin Central and Regional Library] | 'Themenraum Mode' [Fashion Theme Room], 31.10.2023 - 04.02.2024
Contribution – 'Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes and Methods', July 2023 →
Monument Magazine No 3 – Oscar Suleyman, Fantasy Worlds: The Allure of a Permanent Elsewhere, 2021 →
Online Panel Talk – 'Training for co-creation: Alternative narratives for a post-crisis world', Can Fashion Save the World?, 2021 →
Warehouse Review 002 | 'A Review of Reviews', 2021 →
Out of the Shadows: Are we there yet?, 2021 →
Embedded Research, April to October, 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 (she/her)
*1993, G.D. Luxembourg
lives and works in Berlin (DE)
Fashion | a. a system of social relations | b. a device for poetic expression | c. an existential smokescreen
critique, discuss, suggest, act | form collectives and cooperations | teach your skills locally | focus on the periphery | swap, repair, remake, support
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.
Alongside these, from 2020-2024, she has assisted with research for contemporary art editions project ARS PUBLICATA, initiated by Schellmann Art, Munich. She also enjoys gardening with others in the local community garden at ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics.
PRESENTATIONS
2024 – Talk – 'Going to the City – Critical fashion practices in the centre', 08.05.2024, CIMO, Zagreb (HR)
2023 – Teacher Training – 'Field Walk – Konsumorte als künstlerische Ressource' [Field Walk – Consumption spaces as artistic resource]', Fachtag zu Strategien in der Kulturellen Bildung 'Wie umgehen mit dem Klimawandel?' [Conference for strategies in cultural education 'How to deal with climate change?'], 19.09.2023, MiK Jugendkunstschule + Schönhauser Allee Arcaden, Berlin (DE)
2022 – Panel Talk – 'Zero Waste – Kunst und Wissen; Future Fashion - fair und nachhaltig? [Zero Waste – Art and Knowledge; Future Fashion – fair and sustainable?]', 19.10.2022, URANIA, Berlin (DE)
2021 – Panel Talk – 'Training for co-creation: Alternative narratives for a post-crisis world', Responsible Fashion Series: Can Fashion Save the World?, Online (BE)
2021 – Elevated Politics – boxed editions in collaboration with Julia Bajanova, Fashion Positions, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin (DE)
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
ongoing – why, what for and how, the world and its inhabitants
2018 – MA Design (Interdisciplinary), University of the Arts Berlin
2016 – BA Design (Fashion), University of the Arts Berlin