Have you met the mermaids of Dagmar?
As if they wearing pearls in their hair..pearly, romantic, and robust are the key elements of next summer. As if they struck down from a fairytale……those models.. look like real mermaids..boulevard of stolen and broken dreams.
This time 2 anniversaries; it’s the 15th time the Frans Molenaar Prize will be rewarded, a price of 10.000 euros to be invested into the winning designers’ own label, and Frans Molenaar himself turned 70 this year.
Hyun Yeu
Friday the 16th of July the Sepehr Summer Show took place during the AIFW. As a show location the designer chose the round pond at the Westerpark because of the fairytale-like atmosphere. The accompanying music was a live opera singer which made the fashion fairytale complete.
A rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a….
Romantic? The models were self conscious, flirty, sexy and charming during Hunkemollers FW11 fashion show, to say the least!
Smiling faces and models who are actually making contact with the audience, what an improvement! Bra’s and panties in emeraldgreen, black and flowerprints are switching within high speed on the catwalk. ‘Women in bloom’ is the central theme of this collection and represents women who feel their blossom time of life everyday. According to your mood you can choose a piece that suits you perfectly. Romantic?
Amsterdam – Roos van de Kamp started her label Roparose -meaning Rosa’s clothes – won the Dutch edition of Project Catwalk. Part of her prize was a chance to show a collection at Amsterdam’s International Fashion Week. Last Sunday she got the chance to do so.
It was a hot outside and it was hot in the salon. Some visitors used their fans from Redken to scare the heat away. It wasn’t until the first model hit the runway that I forgot about the heat.
The Collection Roos had show the jury during the finally of Project Catwalk aroused lots of controversy. Some people did not believe that she had done all the work herself. Ans so expectations were set high. Would she be able to do what she had done before? With a new concept and the same quality?
Saturday the 17th of July Conny Groenewegen presented her collection in her own unique way during AIFW. The show takes place outside, where a labyrinth is created by plasticized pallet blocks on which the public can sit down. Both the public and the models are wearing headphones through which the accompanying music of the show sounds. At the beginning of the show the models come out wrapped in plastic like cocoons. When they are liberated from their cocoons the beautiful creations become visible.
Every year during the summeredition of Fashion Week, the Lichting show takes place: every Dutch artacademy sends his 2 best students to the show. There they show their 5 best outfits to the public.
Amsterdam International Fashion Week closed in style with a spectacular show of Club Brillant. The hall was very full some people couldn’t even sit down.From beginning to end we watched the show with a lot of enthusiasm. Dutch designers where presenting there most beautiful creations, with 60 models, this the most amount of models that has been walking for a show at AIFW.
We have seen creations of Daryl van Wouw, Elsien Gringhuis, Monique Collignon, Lew, LaDress, Mada van Gaans, MalouseBastiaan, Ontfront, And Beyond, Michael Barnaart van Bergen, Jeroen van Tuyl, Bibi van der Velden and Ilja Visser.
We return to the world NON by Kim from the cold fall/winter collection 2010 from last edition, and we transported to the spring/summer collection of 2011. The collection has been inspierd by “uncotacted people” also known as “Th lost tribes”.
The fascination for this subject lies within the fact that, these people live, or have lived without significant contact with other civilizations.
The colors where very sober, earth tones, white, blue en green accents. The collection wasn’t very spectacular this time with shorts, shirts, sweaters, pants but the lining and details where very nice exactly like we accepted from designer Kim Bakker.
For the collection Kim used Japanese denim, wool/linen mixes, ultra light weight sweats and organic and recycled cottons.All knits were personally designed by Kim.
One of the highlights of Amsterdam International Fashion Week last week was Daryl van Wouw. Daryl was the conversation of the week and indeed!
The show started much later than expected. It was fully packed, that there were no seatings or standing places left anymore. Last Saturday Daryl showed his Spring/Summer collection inspired by the song ‘Paradise Circus’ of the American band Massice Attack. This collection is totally different then we expected from Daryl.
No ‘street’ look this time. But loud colors such as green, yellow, blue and red in all models hair. Daryl showed different designs like short dresses, shorts, jumpsuits and leather sandals. For all lovers he also showed some designs made of (soft) leather.
Particularly the show had a foreign look. I said it before, no ‘street’ look but we could call it ‘Street Chic’.
Cavalinho handbag
