Yvonne Kwok wins Lichting 2012
July 12, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items
Yvonne Kwok is today’s winner of the G-Star RAW Talent Award. The four international Lichting judges ( Orsola de Castro, Marieke van Dongen, Corinna Springer, Margareta van den Bosch) chose her colorful carnaval inspired collection over the thirteen other collections that were presented tonight. Yvonne wins a money price of 10.000 euro and will travel to Berlin with G-Star to participate in their show during Berlin Fashion Week upcoming January.
Yvonne on her collection: “The translation to my collection is a bombastic use of color. Warm tones combined with bright accents and pastels are inspired by the colors of organs. The strained strings stand for the restriction and the folding reflects the humor where some parts of the body are being blown up. Also by playing with the different placements of the limbs from the marionette it’s being taken out of context. The use of neoprene gives a fleshy effect and refers to how artist Folkert de Jong calls it: “gebakken lucht”, which means “nonsense”. The use of cardboard and brads are inspired by the paper doll, which gives the collection that handcrafted feeling that I was looking for.”
Lichting 2012, the sixth edition, is a project of HTNK, Amsterdam Fashion Week, Premsela and G-star Raw.
Individuals Amsterdam Catwalk Fashion Show SS2013
July 12, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under AIFW, Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items, womenswear
Should we cover our ears? The Individuals fashion show started with extremely loud and incredibly dark music and looks in shades of broken asphalt to match. Tough models wore ethnic inspired looks that breathed progress, strength and necessity; the three themes of the collection, which was actually a squeal to the previous Individuals collection of last season.
They wore grungy over-accessorized looks with lots of black leather. Corset-like tops, baseball jackets and large hoodies were all in the asymmetrical, layered streetwear mix.
After all the darkness, a touch of primal / fuchsia was added to the collection as the music got a little more pleasant to listen to. Then fuchsia changed into deep shades of sand and beige only to end in a series of full bone white looks. Every outfit was richly styled; golden headpieces, scarves wrapped around the models heads, messy, braided hairstyles and eye-catching bangles were all in the mix.
After some ethnic drums and the sound of birds it became completely silent and light on the catwalk as all looks a appeared on the runway once again. Leave out the heavy accessories and the sky-high shoes and you’ve got yourself a selection of very wearable streetwise clothes. A few of the TPS team-members have even already prepared their Individuals wishlist!
Backstage at LAB shows Dorhout Mees and Domenico Cioffi
Take a look backstage at the LAB-shows of Dorhout Mees and Domenico Cioffi.
This was Amsterdam Fashion Week SS2013 Day 1
Well that was quite memorable first day of Amsterdam Fashion Week ss2013. Storm and rain, sun and laughter. And even a glamorous soiree where lots of fashionpro’s and fashionlovers attended. And Claes Iversen and Marga Weimans put down an impressive show.
Backstage at Marga Weimans AFW SS2013
Take a look backstage at the show of Marga Weimans, where make-up artists and dressers do their best to get all the models ready in time.
Backstage at Claes Iversen AFW SS2013
Take a look backstage at the show of Claes Iversen, where make-up artists and dressers do their best to get all the models ready in time.
Streetfashion AFW SS2013 Day 1
July 11, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under AIFW, Amsterdam, Featured Items, Streetwear
What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Jil Sander-shoes, your latest Prada-shirt 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.
Peet Dullaert wins Frans Molenaar Award
July 11, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items
Designer Peet Dullaert is this year’s winner of the Frans Molenaar Award. His four looks out of a whole collection of thirteen designs wowed the judges and made him win the money price of 10.000 euro. We spoke him after he just heard the good news.
Inspiration
“I designed this collection inspired by my grandmother’s brooch. A brooch which she got from a friend of Queen Juliana and was actually inherited by Anna Paulowna Romanova. I was fascinated by the legend I heard of women using their jewelry in their corsets as a piece of luxury for themselves. I wanted to create that kind of personal luxury and added a young and fresh way of tailoring”, Peet explains.
Modern technique
Peet used a very new technique to create his couture-likepieces: “I used a modern technique of layering many very thin fabrics on top of each other. You can not really see this straight away, but it gives the clothes a nice, airy flexibility. So I used the most fragile fabrics to create jackets, which are never made out of these kind of fabric. So the silhouettes may be boxy, but the fabrics still give the designs a soft touch. Everything I designed I did with the idea of hidden luxury. If you see my inspiration brooch you’ll notice it fits perfectly with this collection, since it’s very timeless.”
Next year
During next year’s award show Peet has the opportunity to show his work again. “I’m so overexcited with this award. I’m going to use the money to start a label of my own and I’ll be working hard on next year’s collection”, adds Peet who, with tears of joy in his eyes, says he’s ready for a drink together with his model friends.
Congrats Peet!
Cold Method Amsterdam Fashion Week SS2013
July 11, 2012 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, Menswear
After he presented his previous collection in a grand theater in Amsterdam Dieter de Cock kept things small and intimate for Cold Method this time around. He held a small collection presentations during which he personally talked the press through his designs, highlighting some of the details and pointing out some of the functional extra’s.
For next summer Dieter was inspired by the documentary, Sympathy for the Devil (1968), in which the Rolling Stones work on a track with the same title. The clothes therefore had a true London sixties feeling and a Mick Jagger look to it.
Divided into three themes the collection of suit jackets, shorts, smoking shirts and knitted sweaters took us from soft (blue, light pink, white) to preppy (yellow, navy, camel) and urban cool (blue, purple, red, navy) shades.
Dieter told us he wanted to focus more on the real Cold Method man and with this collection that guy will certainly be pleased.
Sjaak Hullekes Amsterdam Fashion Week Preview
Japan inspired
After his Moroccan inspired collection last season, Sjaak Hullekes will present a Japan oriented collection of menswear this time. “I was inspired by Japan from before and after the industrialization. People in Japan really focus on tradition. Sepia pictures of traditionally dressed people in front of a flat were the starting point. Besides the Japanese style is just very beautiful. I love the folklore aspect of their way of dressing”, Sjaak says.
Details
The Japanese influences will be visible through the details of the clothes. “Menswear is always very much about details and with this collection it’s no different. You’ll recognize the Japanese style through the standing colors, certain fabrics, dessins and the Eastern overlap we used.”
Min‘yō
The Japan theme reaches even further. “The music, the colors and the title of the collection are Japan inspired as well. We’ve used faded colors, which we’ve seen in the sepia pictures, like beige, faded green, navy and brown/orange shades. The title of the collection is Min‘yō, which is traditional Japanese music. It represent the idea of continuing something and passing it on, which really appealed to me.”
Unconstructed
Throughout the new spring/summer collection, which will feature around thirty looks, the deconstructed signature of Sjaak Hullekes will be visible. “With most of my designs you can really see how they are created. I always look for fabrics and colors that give a design a certain strength. Plus, something has to feel really comfortable, like some of my jackets which are not lined.”
Casual chic
“The casual part of the collection is bigger this time than before. This because I personally really wanted to extend it. I want to wear more casual pieces myself. Therefore you’ll see more short jackets and safari jackets. One of the deconstructed jackets is my absolute favorite; it’s insane! It has a terracotta shade and we’ve used a contrasting fabric for both the color and the pockets. I think and hope it is going to do well.”
Head to toe
Sjaak recently launched his own perfume and will launch a collection of underwear (this collection will not be shown during Amsterdam Fashion Week) very soon; all part of the bigger plan. “I really feel the need to be able to dress a man from head to toe. I want to be a complete fashion house. The underwear, which is a very basic brief in both white and navy, arrives next week and will be sold quickly after that.”
New projects
“We’ve also just introduced our made to measure service, we are looking for our own store in Amsterdam and we’re working on a business-to-business level with companies like Microsoft, which is so much fun.”
Sjaak Hullekes will present his new menswear collection on Saturday 14 July at 06.00 PM
