In addition to clothing and accessories, the exhibition features videos and installations, including the Zen garden setting for Viktor & Rolf’s A/W 2013 collection: a plea for a slower pace and more spirituality in the fashion world. Wang Lei (China) makes traditional Chinese costumes from woven toilet paper.

Carole Collet (UK) explores sustainable materials in her experiments with lace grown from the roots of strawberry plants. The hand-knitted creations of Pyuupiru (Japan) give the wearer a new identity, freed from the limiting factors of the human body. Technological innovations also offer new possibilities: the jacket from the Wearable Solar Project by Pauline van Dongen (The Netherlands) can recharge a mobile phone.

Over the past few years an international team of fashion experts has been scouting for new talent for the exhibition. A jury that includes fashion duo Viktor&Rolf; editor-in-chief of Dutch Vogue, Karin Swerink; and curator and fashion expert José Teunissen, have awarded the Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge Award to six young designers.

Iris van Herpen (The Netherlands), Craig Green (UK), D&K (Ricarda Bigolin & Nella Themelios, Australia), Olek (Poland), Digest Design (China) and Lucia Cuba (Peru) will develop new works that will be shown for the first time in the exhibition.