MLY by Emily Hermans
MLY – Fingerprints
You can see Emily Hermans is growing as a designer. Her collection was well balanced and she’s finding her own signature. Hermans focused on casual daywear with a classic, elegant touch: jersey or knitted skirts, sweaters, pullovers and cardigans with a bodyhugging fit. We particularly loved the graphic design like fingerprints, handwriting and henna-tattoo inspired flowers.
Ilja Visser: new feminity
Ilja Visser designs modern feminine clothes with a witty edge. Her wintercollection was all black with a little bit of white and Madonna-blue. The silhouette was sharp, with fitted jackets and pencilskirts but also soft with short dresses, wide trousers and long eveningdresses.
Jessica Joyce Catwalk Show
Jessica Joyce focused mainly at dresses and showed us a variety of simple silhouettes and forms with beautiful details at the waist, arm or neckline. The colors were fresh an not winterlike at all, like orange, white and red. They’ll add a little sunshine to those grey days in november.
Fashion Institute Arnhem
The famous Fashion Institute Arnhem introduced four new talents at the Amsterdam Fashion Week. First was Lifu Hsiao with a collection inspired by the Art Nouveau. Second was Sanne Schrijver, who went for big, round and voluminous shapes. Then there was Julia Eichler with an upbeat collection inspired by African Art. Claes Iversen closed the show with great dresses but all with a little (or huge) mis-shape or mis-form. The result was stunning: how beautiful ugly can be!
Lifu Hsiao
Sanne Schrijver
Julia Eichler
Claes Iversen
Dutch Fashion Foundation: Prelude AW09
The fourth edition of Prelude was actually the unofficial kick start of Amsterdam International Fashion Week. This fashion-salon – initiated by the Dutch Fashion Foundation and Mercedes Benz – presents fresh, new Dutch fashiontalents. And we really experienced some fresh fashion! Like the debut of Sebastic, with his sensitive menswearcollection focused on shirts and pullovers in powdery colours. Sjaak Hullekes is also a promising mensweardesigner, with his tough collection were casual meets formal. Other contributors were Mada van Gaans (great dresses with beautiful ornaments), Conny Groenwegen (satin dresses & subtile knitwear) and Corné Gabriels. Now that’s a guy to watch! His weather-inspired menswearcollection was witty and stylish, especially those beautiful pullovers with digital prints of clouds, thunder and rain. He made us very happy!
Hullekes
Conny Groenewegen
Corne Gabriels
Sebastic
Collectie Arnhem Catwalk Show
It’s not easy for a fashionstudent to do a collection from a to z, from scratch to shop. But every year Collection Arnhem manages to put down a complete collection. This time the theme was Sustainability. Out came a collection with oversized pants and shirts, white folded fabrics, bulky knitwear, layered dresses and outfits like liquid gold.
Round and about Wednesday
Team Peter Stigter reporter Sophie van Veen snaps everyone during and in between the fashion shows. An update on last Wednesday, between the shows of Blue Blood and Marlies Dekkers:
White horses from Marlies Dekkers
Marlies Dekkers – She really knows how to throw a show & party. The white horses and glitzy confetti-finale were the topping of a daring and colourful show full of mouthwatering bodyfashion. We especially liked the prints and little red stars on a black backround.
C-Mon and Kypski kick off with Blue Blood FW08 catwalk show
Denim-label Blue Blood kicked off the 8th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week with a stunning performance of the Dutch formation C-Mon and Kypski at their fashion show. A cool, streetwise mix of dark denim, marine & army inspired colours, knitwear and jackets. And those shiny, coloured Doc Martin’s really did it. No need to say we loved the T-shirts with printed medals. Watch the copycats!
Amsterdam International Fashion Week Schedule online
Check out where to go and where to stay this week in Amsterdam at the official AIFW schedules:
AIFW Official Show Schedule AW 2008
