Mevan Kaluarachchi SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week
Willem de Kooning Academy graduate (in 2005) Mevan Kaluarachchi presented himself for the first time today during Amsterdam fashion week. The range of menswear items he showed – named Wardrobe – was not just a SS2014 collection, but included looks for both summer and winter. Pieces for all seasons, so to say. From shorts and tees to jersey pants and trenchcoats. Sloughy shirts had special buttons or collars and were longer in the back than in the front. Most of them were loose and airy, even sheer almost. The color palette was a perfect fix of shades suitable for menswear; from red and turquoise to grey and navy. Colors that can be worn all year round, like the clothes that, according to Mevan, are qualitative, comfortable and will last. His creations are meant to stay, let’s hope Mevan is a keeper too!
Franzel + Armand Michiels SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week
Franzel Amsterdam
Eric Franzel made his Amsterdam Fashion Week debut today and presented his small, but strong Franzel collection inspired by the Golden Age. Dark models with partly black painted faces showed minimalistic looks which formed a combination of classic menswear and sportswear influences. Lots of black, white and navy formed the not too summer-y collection. Blouses and shorts looked simple and modern, worn with tights and trench coats. Countless zippers, quilted details and a touch of red on the models’ sneakers kept things interesting. A tough looking girl, fully dressed in black with a big white Franzel logo on her back closed the show. Nice introduction Franzel, see you next season?!
Armand Michiels
Six models with Dior couture-like make-up and hair all appeared on stage together at Armand Michiels. They wore long navy blye clocks and were turned with their back towards the audience. One by one they dropped their cloaks, turned around and showed what they were really wearing. A mix of denim and corsets, so it seemed. Geisha-inspired corset tops (for all kind of different occasions) in different shades with sculptural origami details in the front, laces at the back and color coordinated jeans or shorts, plus platform heels to go! We’re not exactely sure in which category Armand belongs; but it was an interesting mix of casual and couture.
Streetfashion Amsterdam Fashion Week SS2014 Day 1
July 13, 2013 by Jetty
Filed under Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Prada-shoes, your latest Raf Simons-sweater or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Amsterdam Fashion Week spring/summer 2014.
MaryMe-JimmyPaul SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week
July 12, 2013 by Jetty
Filed under womenswear
We have to miss Bas Kosters’ spectacle fashion shows this season, but tonight’s MaryMe-JimmyPaul collection was a nice surprising alternative. The designers presented an interactive show as the closing act of this Amsterdam Fashion Week opening night. Sponsored by Vodafone so phones were included in the interactive part. The audience was able to live vote for the looks while they were going down the runway. Doll-like dressed up models with pastel shades wigs and heavy make-up playfully walked the catwalk. They were dressed to the extreme sporting high heels, knee high boots, printed suits and spectacular fluffy/fur-like dresses and tops. With every look the outfits became more colorful, platform shoes got higher and the audience wilder. After the last look; the most hated and most loved models re-appeared. The finale for sure put a smile on everyone’s face when ‘ the designers’ were brought on stage and turned out to be two very tanned, strong bodybuilders in bikini. Bas Kosters too gave his sign of approval by enthusiastically applauding from the front row. What a spectacle; Amsterdam Fashion Week is officially started now!
SIS by Spijkers en Spijkers SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week
July 12, 2013 by Jetty
Filed under womenswear
No doubt about it; Spijkers en Spijkers took us straight to summer 2014 with their vibrant beach-y collection. From a background of moving waves young models with messy beach hair followed each other in the (what seemed like a) never ending show. Playful skirts, loose blouses, wide dresses and high waisted pants brought us on a trip to the French Riviera. Girls looked sweet and cheerful, like a young Brigitte Bardot (when she was still a brunette), yet never too sexy for the SIS brand. They sported stripes and checks in classic shades of red, white and blue. Small belts and beaded necklaces added a colorful touch, while floral prints and bright organza fabrics revived the show towards the end. Forget hot summer destinations like Ibiza and Mykonos, next year Côte d’Azur it is!
Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2013
After a 13-year absence designers Viktor & Rolf returned to the stage of Haute Couture in Paris and they went for something altogether more contemplative, but nevertheless magical. Twenty models wearing sculptural black looks – one for each of their 20 years in fashion together – moved at slow pace across a rectangle printed with raked stones, ultimately assembling in five clumps to approximate the famous Zen garden at the Ryōan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
The undulating, organic shapes were all realized in a spongy technical silk and engineered so that the models resembled stones when in the postures necessary to mimic the garden’s composition. It required curved seams, dimpled insets and 1,000 hours in the atelier to create details mimicking grass.
And at second sight the creations were really wearable. The silhouettes were varied and surprisingly fetching when models stood upright, ranging from a regal cutaway coat to a bulbous chubby sprouting those grass-like strands. Dresses had an S-curve in profile, extra fabric bunching at the small of the back and past the knees. When seated on small cushions, the designers arranged the dresses to hide limbs and match the raked patterns around the “stones.”
But Viktor & Rolf wanted to broadcast their more abstract and conceptual ideas instead of making it a commercial success. The fact that half the collection already sold to an unnamed art collector proves that they can still make interesting couture-collections.
Getting ready for Amsterdam Fashion Week 19th Edition
The 19th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week will kick off coming week-end with Amsterdam Fashion Weekend and THE summerparty to be: Celebrate. These fashion-crazy days are filled with pop-up catwalkshows, a fashion-bazaar and all kinds of fashion-related activities in the Fashion- and Museum-quarter of Amsterdam. This event will be followed by five days of catwalkshows and Team Peter Stigter is warming up to bring you the best pictures and reviews of this event. You want to join the crowd? This is your chance: for the first time exclusive entry-tickets for the shows will be for sale.
From july 12th until 16th the AFW will build its venue in the Westerpark and transform the enormous Gashouder into a fashion-theatre where young talents and well known designers will show their spring summer 2014 collections. Supertrash will unveil their first collection for children – ST Girls – and menswear-designer Francisco van Benthum will make his return to the catwalk.
Of course more familiar names will be there too like Marga Weimans, Tony Cohen, SIS by Spijkers en Spijkers and Claes Iversen. And everybody is looking forward to the closing-show: Lichting 2013, with the most talented fashion-graduates of this year.
The Frontrow Club
For the first time non-professional fashionlovers can attend a fashion-show. AFW has a limited amount of tickets for shows held at july 13, 14, 15 and 16. They will be sold online for a reduced price and are exclusively for members of The Frontrow Club. This club is an online community related to AFW and everybody can join the club, the membership is for free. And with the membership comes all kinds of privileges.
More than 3000 people already joined the club and they can experience live what a fashion-show is like (meet all the editors of Vogue, Elle and Glamour, see the photographers in action, watch the celebs frontrow) . A tickets means a seat near the big catwalk in the Gashouder where they can watch the show of Tony Cohen or a seat in the more intimate space of the Transformatorhuis to see the new collection of Cold Method.
For most shows there availability is limited, but for the show of 2LOVETONYCOHEN at Sunday july 14th the availability of tickets is much bigger. The special Frontrow Club -fee per ticket is 35 euro, and there’s a five euro discount for visitors who buy two tickets for different shows held the same day. And you can experience a lot of fashion for that price!
All information about different events during Amsterdam Fashion Week you will find at the official site of AFW
For The Frontrow Club and buying tickets, click here
See you there!
Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Catwalk Fashion Show Paris FW2013
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen sent out metallic shell like structures that engulfed the upper body, as well as kimono-dresses with fragile cutout patterns. Of course she used her favorite techniques 3D-printing and laser cutting to produce her effects. It was the first time she made a complete dress by 3D printing.
She also played with the notion of the human body altered by surgery and scarification via pierced silicon dresses.
Saint Laurent Catwalk Fashion Show Paris Menswear SS2013
Hedi Slimane’s second menswear-collection for Saint Laurent was an ode to an imaginary band of beanpole Teddy Boys. Hair slicked back into ducktails, tight pants hitched to the navel.
Lots of people might criticize the collection, but there was some good design: an army green cotton parka cut like a tailcoat, a patchwork leather jacket in a racing-flag pattern, minimalist waistcoats that were little more than vest points on a harness. There was also a variety of youthful jackets, a play on formal-wear and the Fifties varsity jackets in gleaming satin with crystal embroideries on the back. But you’ll have to be a skinny boy to wear it. And young, and rich. But we’ll find plent details and rip offs of this collection back in the stores next year.
