H&M launches eco-fabulous Conscious Collection
February 3, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Fashion, Featured Items, womenswear
This spring H&M will launch yet another eco friendly fashion collection. The Consicous Collection, which will hit the stores on the 14th of April, is meant for women, men and children and looks amazing.
With lots of whites and shades of nude, embroideries, ruffles and drapings the collection for women is ultra-romantic. And though the designs are made from organic cotton and recycled polyester, there’s no sign of the geeky image sustainability might have. We loved the maxi skirt, the shorts and the beautiful embroidered dresses!
With Natasha Poly as the face of this collection (in the commercial for the sustainable Garden collection of last year we saw her with blond hair) H&M couldn’t have picked a better spokesperson.
Here are some snapshots of the Conscious Collection…
Boutyq Catwalk Fashion Show Amsterdam AW 2011
February 3, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items, Menswear, womenswear
The Boutyq-event has developed itself into a serious fashion-event, where Dutch talents get to present themselves two times a year plus an international renowned brand or fashion-house. Last Tuesday Dutchies Francisco van Benthum, Jeroen van Tuyl, Jan Boelo and the British label Unconditional presented their fall winter 2011 collections. And after a full week of mainly womenwear it was refreshing to see some good menswear-collections.
Francisco van Benthum started his career in 1996 with colleague Michiel Keuper, but began his own line in 2001. It’s been difficult for the talented designer to maintain his own label over the years, but it seems his Francisco van Benthum/whitelabel is succesful. It was this line he presented at Boutyq. His clothes still have that constructed look but less edgy, finishing and proportions still play an important role.
Jeroen van Tuyl celebrates his 10th anniversary this year and he proved himself a serious mensweardesigner. Elegant, sharp, tough are keywords that explain his signature style, his graphics are always strong. This time prints were inspired by pieces of broken glass and they appeared at suits, coats and scarves.
Jan Boelo has just begun, but got his education at several sources: Jan Taminiau, Marloes Blaas, Paul Schulten and Balmain. At the last fashionhouse he discovered his signature style: strict, sharp and with a touch of rock ‘n roll. He presented his first collection in 2010.
Philip Stephens is the man behind the British label Unconditional, contemporary, luxury basics for men and women are mixed with more fashionable and seasonable specials. Remarkable fact is that the collections are produced in an ethical way, with organic fabrics and environment friendly dyes.
Highlights 14th edition AIFW FW2011
We did it again! We survived Amsterdam International Fashion Week, with more than 27 shows, presentations and party’s. We shot front-stage, backstage, street-wear, shows and soirees and we loved every minute of it.
More than 20.000 people attended the AIFW this time – amongst them a large group of international bloggers – and we hope they enjoyed themselves as much as we did. We did see some strong collections, beautifully dressed people and a lot of fashion-enthusiasm. We won’t forget the couture-show of Jan Taminiau or the colorful parade of Bas Kosters full with energy and fantasy. And we were surprised by the collection of Marloes Blaas and the sweet romantic style of Sage & Ivy. Die-hards like Tony Cohen and Addy van den Krommenacker demonstrated us what a real professional catwalk-show looks like. And talking about show: you don’t have to tell Supertrash anything about that. This was glamor tot the max!
And let’s not forget Spijkers & Spijkers, Monique Collignon, the LAB-shows, Ready to Fish by Ilja Visser, Huen Yeu, Velour, Elsien Gringhuis. And the Green Fashion Competition. This is how diverse and inventive Dutch fashion-design is.
Fashion is vaporized
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Events, Fashion, Fashion Professionals, Featured Items, General
After a week of hard work and great shows the fashion-circus is leaving again. What’s left are good memories and the left-overs of parties and presentations. Bye Amsterdam Fashion Week, we’ll be back in july!
Next stop for Team Peter Stigter is New York Fashion Week fall/winter 2011 and we will keep you posted on what’s happening there. See you soon and thanks for all the enthusiastic support.
Hunkemöller Catwalk Fashion Show Amsterdam
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items, womenswear
On the last evening of the Amsterdam International Fashion Week lingerielabel Hunkemöller held a show named ‘It’s a women’s world and we love it’ in the Zuiveringshal at the Westergasterrein. For it’s brand new collection Hunkemöller was inspired by Hollywoodstars of the thirties and forties, like Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker.
Models with daring pink wigs (which had been cut and steamed for hours backstage) walked the runway in the most diverse lingerie looks.
We saw bras, strings and high waisted knickers in nudes, orange, green, purple, petrol, deep blue and black. Combined with lace, strass-details, bows, feathers and garters they made up for a very feminine and sexy look.
The collection was divided into four separate themes; Hollywood Glamour, Hot Cognac, Excentric Luxury and Mysterious Black, each with it’s own inspiration, colors and style. All looks were finished off by eye catching jewelry and accessories.
During the grande finale a model (the contemporary muse of Hunkemoller) wearing a brown slip dress, a shoulder- and an enormous head piece appeared on the runway. She stood on top of some stairs as all models walked their final round on the catwalk.
A great show. Adele’s Rolling in the Deep is still in our heads…
Hunkemöller Backstage AIFW FW2011
Actually, it was a great collection of Hunkemöller. Classic with a twist, beautiful colors and a good styling. Backstage you could see the models had big fun and felt sensual yet strong in the lingerie. The bright red wigs added a punch to the whole performance.
The Best of All goodiebags – Amsterdam Fashion Week
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items, Goodiebags
The goodiebags we received this week were not very impressive, most of them were rather disappointing! We did receive better bags during earlier editions of AIFW. This time there were a lot of spam items and the real goodies were lacking.
Apart from the Velour goodiebag and the Hunkemöller box we simple couldn’t give any goodiebag a high rate (too bad we didn’t get a goodiebag, or even een preview – at Supertrash this time).
To show you what a real goodiebag could look like, we gathered the best items of this Amsterdam Fashion Week in one ideal goodiebag.
It contains:
– Stylish toothbrush from Jordan
– Bodywash
– Hunkemoller garter
– Glasses from Bas Kosters
– Lounge music
– a bottle of water
– Rituals tea
– Vouchers of Hunkemoller ( 30 euro) and Specsavers/Spijkers & Spijkers (50 euro)
– T-shirt Velour
– Hand lotion Aveda
– Maybelline 24h lipstick
– Opi nailpolish
– Eyeshadow
But we dream of perfume, fashionable jewelry, a nice scarf, skincare-samples, champagne, perfumed candles ….
Goodiebag!? Hunkemöller Catwalk Fashion Show FW2011
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items, Goodiebags
Again we were surprised with a super nice goodiebag at Hunkemöller.
This time it contained:
Useful
– a membership card of Hunkemöller
– a Hunkemöller voucher of 30 euro
– a garter
– Opi nail polish
– fortune cookies
Spam
–
Estimated value: 40 euro
Rating: 8
Goodiebag!? Elsien Gringhuis Catwalk Fashion Show FW2011
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items
No surprises in the Elsien Gringhuis goodiebag.
In it were:
Useful
Rough Paste – Redken
Shampoo & Conditioner sample – Redken
Magazine – The Adam Issue
Spam
A card from the shoe designer Rosanne Bergsma
Folder het Haartheater
Folder Fur Free
Estimated value: 1 euro
Rating: 3
Elsien Gringhuis Catwalk Fashion Show FW2011
January 30, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Amsterdam, Fashion, Featured Items
Elsien Gringhuis took her inspiration for her fall winter 2011 collection from the Dutch countryside, with it’s endless view, clear fields and lots of wind. She called her collection ‘One of these days’, after a Pink Floyd song. Giving away a bit of the ominous feeling this seeming fresh collection has.
For her 18 different looks Elsien used natural materials (no wonder she won the Green Fashion Competition!) like hand painted silk, bamboo and wool and opted for colors like black, white, green and (light) blue.
For this new collection she focused more on the wearability of her designs. She also developed her way of pattern making. ‘I challenge myself trying to use the minimal amount of parts for my patterns, maybe one or two’, Elsien said. ‘I also tried to give the collection more of an airy feeling then I did with other collection.’
We thought the collection felt very minimalistic with it’s clean cuts and it’s plain colors. The silhouette looked refreshing and elegant and we loved the long jackets and jumpsuits.
