For local patrons, the much-awaited assistance to attend fashion week is in itself too far-fetched. However, this year's fashion ecosystem found itself void of any sort of fair, trade shows, federates, or institutional support.
This is much of an event opening for the local people and walks of fame. Obviously, this makes things extremely hard for foreign exhibition interests, especially within the Baltic states. Latvia is essentially below two million, whereas Estonia is less than one and a half million. If you take these two places into consideration, in contrast, Lithuania gets way better figures at almost three million people.
In these strictures, it could hardly be said that fashion was seasonal; it rather refers to collections meant for the divinely rich and adorned wardrobes. Those collections designed within the region will henceforth be earmarked for premium/high-end markets. Thus, in support of this foundation of commerce, two bridal collections were shown on the first day.
Living craft—that talks about identity; identity that goes beyond just crochet works of the different collections with regard to craftsmanship. The parade also acknowledges Mother Nature, to whom everyone knows it is tradition to take flowers to the designers of the collections presented.
It is another collaboration that is occurring with young artists and artisans, primarily potters: "would give visibility to them in spaces otherwise inaccessible—for example, those pop-up showrooms I've done in Azerbaijan or Dubai."
It is this case that somewhat embodies the manifesto tied to the ideological positioning of the exhibition-event: "Algorithms dictate what you do, like, or think. You are data. But what if you voluntarily remove yourselves from the matrix? What if you turn a blind eye to it? NOME is dedicated to changing the rule of the consumerist game. Your choice is a revolution; the algorithm goes bust. It will be noticed everywhere, not as a trend but as an error in the system, an error that creates a new reality. We are not a product."
Thus raises the bigger question: Do you have a personal statement that could buttress the message sent more about the collection? No positions to defend? New grounds for expression in fashion are searched for under this renewal of desire.