Round and about at AFW Thursday
Antoine Peters
Designer Antoine Peters was waiting in line for a colleague’s show wearing a brownish photoprint shirt.
Robbert Risteski
Robbert Risteski, stylist, works parttime for Zipper and for a Paris based designer called Marian Pejoski who went to St. Martins together with Bernard Wilhelm.
Neon rockstars
I caught these kids right before the supertrash show. They looked so good together, it almost seemed as if they were one outfit worn by three urban models.
Yellow Frida
Remember the artist Frida Kahlo? This woman I interpreted as the perfect modern version of her. I was blown away by her appearance and I wasn’t the only one.
Wolves in the Snow
This girl was one of the neon rockstars. If they were a three piece painting I’d call this piece the wolf in the snow. A friendly wolf though, who dresses well and has a pretty face.
Jan Taminiau Catwalk Show
Jan Taminiau – Fashionmoment
The show of Jan Taminiau was one of the highlights of this Amsterdam International Fashion Week. The transformation of young innocent girls into strong amazones was beautifully done and touching.
Round and about Elle Style Awards
Our reporter Sophie spotted some good looking people round and about:
Elif form AIFW-blog-team
This Chloe Sevigny look alike immediately caught my eye. Her name turned out to be Elif, she’s in charge of the AIFW fashionblog and knows how to work her wardrobe.
Nude Shiny Legs
This girl was the first person I saw wearing the American apparel nude shiny leggings. They are rather hard to combine but she did a great job. Love the tailoring of the jacket with its striking blue stitches.
Cara from Elle
Right before she left I managed to take a picture of ex chiefeditor Cara from Elle; being ‘the mother of style’ she looked amazing in her blue Klavers en van Engelen’ dress with a black detail and matching jacket and shoes.
Willemijn Rinnooy Kan
Dressed in a shiny Laundry Industry dress, Willemijn Rinnooy Kan, freelance reporter who has worked for Elle and the Financieel Dagblad, charmingly posed for me.
Boy in men’s room:
This sweet young man had been waiting in line for the toilet for 10 minutes and when it was finally his turn to go I asked him to pose. Thanks for holding it up a little longer!
Best dressed cleaning lady.
This girl obviously wasn’t the cleaning lady, though the colours of her bag and pantyhose look amazing next to a simple blue bucket. Love the lipstick and hair, thank you!
Yves Saint Laurent gloves
A great match in high-end fashion. The minimalistic shape and powdry colour of this dress go really well with the Yves saint Laurent gloves and the haircut.
Oilily Catwalk Show
Oilily – Dutch style
Oilily stays true to its Dutch roots, with longforgotten prints and graphics. But it also mixed foreign influences into the collection. Besides modern classics there were jeans and sportswear, which gave an upbeat touch to the collection.
Iris van Herpen Catwalk Show
Iris van Herpen – Yes!
Iris van Herpen showed for the second time and what a show it was! Inspired by crows and the dark, magic world of alchemists she tried to capture different atmospheres. Strength, danger, transparency, movement, it all came together in corset-like creations in leather, metal and threads. Very conceptual and very interesting. We’d love to see more.
Elle Style Awards 2008
Elle Style Awards – Beautiful People
We could not get away from that Elle party! Our feet still hurt, but the headache disappeared. And we still remember who won the award of best dressed celeb! It was Hanna Verboom, right?! And besides that, we also know who won the award for best talented stylist, that was Sophia van den Hoek, with her hippie de luxe presentation. Bravo!
Amber
Kim Esmee
Roos
Sonny
Sophia
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.
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.
