Mick Keus Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Mick Keus made his way onto the fashion week programme this season. The fashion artist usually works on re-appropriating vintage Levi’s 501 for today. Tonight he got a chance to show of his hard customising work during his own show. And since there’s no better way of showing Mick’s jeans than showing them on the people who wear them (daily, weekly, monthly) Mick’s models were a diverse bunch of people. The people who let the jeans revive in today’s world with the perfect custom fit. Jeans that become one with their new owner for a new life in Levi’s.

Sisters of the Castle Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

A show, unlike any other we have ever witnessed, that was Sistaaz of the Castle by photographer Jan Hoek & fashion designer Duran Lantink. Their project is based around the colorful looks of transgender sex workers on the streets of Capetown. Today a collection based on those fashionable types and their ability to make the most outspoken looks out of anything and everything they can find was presented. A photo exhibition with this very same theme can be visited at the Foam photography in Amsterdam, including portraits of six girls Coco (25), Cleopatra (23), Sulaiga (30), Gabby (29), Flavinia (33) and Joan Collins (57). Pictures that eventually formed the lookbook images for Duran Lantink’s collection and were projected onto today’s backdrop. During the show the audience got to know a little bit more about their lives, their dreams and the way they hope to be perceived by others. Six models were put up on a driving backdrop, each portraying one of the six transgender sex workers. They were fully dressep up and had gotten completely into character. In between different models showed Duran’s latest wearable designs as an explosive finally followed. A spectacle almost impossible to describe in words. Oh well, just check out the images and see it for yourself.

Happy Andrada + Esther Haamke Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Happy Andrada
Happy Andrada already won us over with the models impressive warrior hairdos. Yet the clothes didn’t fail to impress either. Embroidered leggings, asymmetric dresses and superhero cape-inspired collars made Andrada’s girls look even more fierce. The mix of grey, silver and purple shaded looks felt urban and party proof at the same time. No everyday looks, but stage inspired special. Happy Saturday.

Esther Haamke
Before Esther Haamke’s show we all received a small lottery ticket to see if we got lucky and won a prize. As it turned out, luck, fortune if you will, was the bigger theme of the collection. As the show notes read “Fortune can only be multiplied when it is shared with others.” Fortune in love, games, life… the collection formed a humorous take on the materialistic society. Casino signs, lucky charms, ‘loser’ and ‘winner’ texts and lucky cat prints represented that. As lots of coloured metallics, sequins, bright prints and large make-up glitters completed the party. Number 179 in the audience won and received a goodiebag at the end of the show, but having seen this spectacle we all got lucky tonight.

Monique Collignon Couture Light Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Texts like ‘Slow Fashion’ and ‘From trash to treasure’ (once again seventy percent of the collection was produced by Waste2Wear®, fabrics made out of recycled plastic bottles) as well as giant images of the designer herself were pictured at Monique Collignon’s backdrop today. A nice message to spread during this fashion filled week while delivering yet another solid, feminine collection. To the tunes of ‘Show me love’, ‘I am every woman’ and ‘R.E.S.P.E.C.T.’ Monique Collignon sent out luxurious looking elegant ensembles. In a winter proof palette of purple, green, brown and navy her fierce models looked classy and fierce. A purple number with a green coat tossed around the models shoulders looked extremely desirable. As well as a beige and blue look topped off with a filt hat. From basic outfits to party looks extravaganza Monique Collignon will hook you up with the best slow fashion creations next winter.

Anbasja Blanken Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Saturday afternoon newcomer Anbasja Blanken delighted us with her free spirited, fresh and first catwalk collection. Since she founded her namesake label Anbasja worked on a few projects under her own name (MOAM with four other design talents), today was her time to shine. With a lighthearted, playful selection of classy, elegant looks in the loveliest color palette of whites, blues and shades of turquoise and purple. Fringes, tulle and sequins played a big part in creating outstanding show stopping, slightly forties and fifties inspired looks. Shimmery and shiny cropped tops that would be definite Instagram hits. Disco pants we’d love to take out on a night into town, the true show stoppers. It’s no coicedence Anbasja wants to eventually focus fully on pants in stead of complete fashion collections. She’s already doing a fantastic job experimenting with appliques, colors and materials.

MBFWA Fall 2016, this was Day 2

The second day of MBFWA was a day of contrasts, with the lovely and elegant show of II by Claes Iversen and the experimental, intense show/performance of Jef Montes.

Amsterdam Fashion Week Fall 2016 Streetfashion Day 2

What are they wearing during the international fashion weeks? A Valentino dress, that vintage Dior or their latest Celine skirt? During the fashion weeks 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.

Jef Montes Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

No ordinary fashion show for Jef Montes this time around. The designer turned his collection presentation into a true spectacle. Perfect silver dresses just melted right off the models bodies as on the catwalk they came in contact with water. It was as if the water destroyed everything, turning the designs black or just making them disappear. The ephemerality of fashion captured in a fashion show, delevering Jef’s clear statement about the current state of the fashion industry in which empty hypes and a certain (too fast of a) pace are determining. Whether fashion is dying or crashing, fashion as we know it has come to a turning point. A clean slate for Jef Montes who now officially and for everyone at the Gashouder to see dissolved (resolver in Spanish) his designs. Leaving us with nothing but the naked (literally) truth, purity and love.

 

 

Tess van Zalinge Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Friday night at the Amsterdam Fashion Week called for la la lingerie.. Both the new collections of Tess van Zalinge and Lola + Lou, founded by Malou van den Broek, were presented. And in case you thought you can’t hold a fashion show with just underwear, think again. Tess van Zalinge’s ‘Geschapen land | Landschap’ was a perfectly balanced (and her very first) collection based on the typical Dutch scenery Tess witnessed during her many train rides from Utrecht to Amsterdam. Green meadows and a grey/blue sky in the mix with diverse natural shades. With unconventional combinations Tess forms a link between tradition, innovation, under and outerwear creating lingerie looks so impressive some pieces could pass as actual clothing. The fresh faced, freckled models appeared almost angelic in the light palette of the collection inspired by Parts of the book ‘Moet Kunnen’ van Herman Pleij about the way in which the Dutch created their own unique landscape. The collection therefore reflects the ultimate malleability of the Dutch Polder. Bras, body’s, slips and even a long skirt and floor sweeping dress made their appearance. High waisted, sheer, with cut-outs and a mix of lace and satin. Designs almost too pretty to just hide under your clothing.

Lola + Lou Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2016

Inspired by American motels by night lingerie label Lola + Lou, founded by Malou van den Broek, had a completely different vibe going on. Sensual, daring and slightly dark her pieces represented a world in which anything is possible. Green and black found each other in a jumpsuit, a number of bra’s + bottoms, a kimono and a playsuit. All sexy as well as comfy and beautiful pieces for everyday.

Lola+Lou and Tess van Zalinge work closely together. Malou van den Broek is also director at Tess van Zalinge and both creatives have their workspace in the former prison De Vrije Wolf in Utrecht.

 

 

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