Goodiebag !? Jackie’s Best Dressed Award

Hey, we’re not finished yet. There are still a loooot of goodiebags to be rated, for us the season’s just started.  The Amsterdam Fashion Week was a good warming up, though. This time we examined the goodiebag we received at the Jackie Best Dressed Award 2010.

Does anyone knows a good recipe with hazelnut liqueur ?

Useful

3 pieces of candy in plastic seal – Papabubble

Magazine – Audi

Magazine – Jackie

Bottle of hazelnut liqueur – 35cl

Bottle of vitamin water – Sourcy – 50 cl

Shampoo – John Frieda

Heart bracelet + folder – I Love Fashion News

Parfum – Givenchy – 4 ml

Nail Polish – OPI

Spam

Free advice voucher – Ici Paris XL

Folder – Athena 7 minute lift

Card – Givenchy

Folder – Choices by DL

Card – Miljonair magazine

Estimated Value: €20,-

Rating: 7

Jackie’s Best Dressed Award

The sad news about Alexander McQueens death overshadowed the good news that Leontine Borsato won the Jackie Best Dressed Award 2010.

On the eve of 10 February many well-dressed women gathered at the Grand hotel in Amsterdam for this special event. As all magazines have their own award show nowadays, (fashion) magazine Jackie presented her Best Dressed Award.

Jackie formed a jury of four people, including stylist: Bastiaan van Schaik, stylist of the stars: Danie Bles, fashion director from Jackie: Renu Kashyap and the Best Dressed lady of last year: Sylvie van der Vaart.

This jury came up with a list of 25 well dressed Dutch ladies. Only the women in the top 5 of that list were in the running to become Jackie’s Best Dressed. Four of them attended the show, yet only one could win…

Leontine Borsato was chosen as the number one on Jackie’s Best Dressed List. She described her style as diverse and told us she likes to mix and match.

The comments of the jury were: ‘Whether Leontine is dropping of her kids at school or is attending a big premiere, she always looks stunning. She can work many different looks and styles’.

Of course some credits had to go to Leontine’s stylist Danie Bles wo dresses her for every big event.

Ready to fish fashion show fw2010

On the afternoon of 9 February designer Ilja Visser presented her Ready to fish fall/winter collection for 2010/2011. For the fashion show a small fashion audience gathered at a location in the center of Amsterdam. The great building has since a few months become Ilja Visser’s office and within a month a Ilja Visser shop will be opened there too.

At the fashion show we met with Mrs. Forester, a nice well-dressed lady, who protects the forest. Mrs. Forester wears the prettiest clothes, takes care of the trees and the flowers and is always happy. For her the presentation of new collection, which was inspired by this lady, Ilja took us deep into the woods.

While a forest-inspired video was played at the back of the room Mrs. Forester was represented in many woolen outfits like a catsuit and a long buttoned cardigan. Heavy and light fabrics combined together in several outfits formed a great aspect of the collection.

Pants were pleated and draped. A few jackets had the shiny print of hanging leaves all over them. Other pants and tops had moss prints in different natural colors. The models carried clutches with them and wore large hats, which looked splendid.

Ilja held a great show. The materials looked amazing and the location made the show feel extra special. And we…we just got carried away by the whole forest-story.

Milou van Rossum over kleuren en karaoke

Milou van Rossum, moderedactrice van de Volkskrant, vertelt over kleuren en karaoke tijdens de Amsterdam Fashion Week, AIFW.

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Carlo Wijnands (and Ruud vd Peijl) over slechte ontwerpers en oordoppen

Carlo Wijnands tells us about bad designers and earplugs at Amsterdam Fashion Week, AIFW, fall winter 2010. Meanwhile, Ruud van der Peijl does a fashiondance in the background…

http://www.vimeo.com/9116227

Fashion director Destiny on acid

Fashion director Destiny on acid backstage at the shows of Elsien Gringhuis and Non by Kim.

http://www.vimeo.com/9054646

Bibi wins our goodiebag contest!

With a fashionable key ring, a book about modeling by Yfke Sturm, a scarf from the Percy Irausquin collection and a Redken tube, we chose Bibi van der Velden’s goodiebag as the best of the Amsterdam Fashion Week.

Just as much as we loved Bibi’s show, we loved her goodiebag. We estimated its value at € 25 and gave the goodiebag an excellent 7,5.

Though the Bibi van der Velden key ring will be a little bit too big for our pockets, we thought it looked pretty cool. And as our whole team dreams of becoming a top model we also liked getting Yfke Sturm’s book about how to look like a top model. Besides, the scarf from the Collection PRC (Percy Irausquin) will surely match one of our outfits. And the Redken tube will be added to the rest of our Redken collection, which we gathered during this Amsterdam Fashion Week.

We want to congratulate Bibi van der Velden on winning our goodiebag contest.

Yet we have two remarks to make:

1.      After comparing all goodiebags from this Amsterdam Fashion Week, it was obvious the Supertrash goodiebag had the best content of all bags.
It came close to winning our contest. However, as none of these bags ended up in our hands, it didn’t.
We think it’s only fair to give all first two rows at a fashion show a goodiebag and not make a distinction between the sections. Moreover, since we have officially started a goodiebag contest, we think we should always get one, no matter what section or row we sit. (We also don’t want to have to goodie-beg for it).

2.      We accidently discussed one of the goodies in the Non by Kim goodiebag wrong. We described one of the items as a folder, but it actually was a handmade screen print, worth about 50 euros.
We want to apologize for this mistake. Yet we think its value wasn’t clear to a lot of people, especially since it was printed on the back of the press review, which most people throw away shortly after the show.
Maybe it should have been handed out in a different way or maybe it was just bit of a baddie to give away at a fashion show. Anyway, we are sorry for our misinterpretation.

Looking back on all the goodiebags we received last week, we think there is some pimping to be done. Some of the bags seemed worth more than their contents and after a few shows we were almost buried in Redken products. There was also a huge gap between the Supertrash goodiebag and all the other bags. So there’s a job for the other brands if they want to equalize.

We will continue on rating the goodiebags we receive at different fashion events, so we hope all brands will take the challenge and put some extra effort in arranging some new goodies for next fashion season.

Wanna take a hint?
Scarfs, books, accessories, make-up or food and drinks will do just fine!

Ruud van der Peijl: winner Streetheart Awards Team Peter Stigter

Stylist, photographer and fashion-icon Ruud van der Peijl won the first Streetheart-award of Team Peter Stigter. Daryl van Wouw had the honor to hand over the award.

Ruud van der Peijl got the most streethearts for the outfit he wore at the first day of the Amsterdam Fashion Week. All visitors at the  Fashion Week were invited to stick their vote/hart at their favorite outfits, which were nailed at a large wall in the fashion-lounge.

With the Streetheart-award Team Peter Stigter and the Amsterdam Fashion Week want to stimulate all visitors to dress themselves at their best:  fashionable, creative, stylish.

team peter stigter

The 12th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week is over, it just went too fast this time. We want to thank everybody for their support, their cooperation and wonderful fashion. See you next time or in New York !

Frontrow Day five – Amsterdam Fashion Week

At the last day of the Amsterdam Fashion Week the frontrows were filled with a mix of designers, celebs, editors and society-people. We spotted a.o. designers Monique van Heist, Jan Taminiau and Mart Visser,  writer/artist Jan Cremer and former Olympic swimmer Inge de Bruin. Fashion seems more and more alive and kicking!

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