Amsterdam – A year has passed since Malou Verharen and Ferdinand Sebastiaan Hartgers showed their first  work at AIFW. They both graduated from Utrecht’s School of the Arts in 2008 and started the brand ‘Marlousebastiaan‘. You cannot tell by their work that they have just popped out of school.

I saw a model walking through the lounge earlier that day. Her hair was tied up into two buns. Both buns were decorated with beige blocks. “Cool” I thought, it seemed to hint at some kind of uniqueness I had not seen before. The sandy colored blocks reminded me of dried land. But it looked classy, feminine, a little childlike too. After showing us a mysterious (really short) film the first model came down the catwalk. The girl that had been sitting next to me during the  Karssenberg/Greidanus show pulled her camera out of her bag and started taking pictures.

The outfits that the first model wore had a prehistoric sense to it. It was a beige top and pants made out of bone shaped figures. It seemed that nature had been the inspiration for the color pallet; the fleshy beige, moss green, a bright flowerish salmon and icy blue.

It looked like the outfits had become part of the models bodies. The models even had an animal-like walk, a graceful one.