In No Particular Order 2016

Collect: Karin Vlug & Lisa Konno

 In No Particular Order 2016, the exhibition curated by Agata Jaworska, took part during Dutch Design Week
.

In No Particular Order presented a selection of work by 32 designers active in the fields of design, architecture, and digital culture. The featured designers received year-long funding from the Creative Industries Fund NL from 2015 to 2016.
for the 2016 edition exhibition, curator Agata Jaworska provided insights into what it means to have a practice. How do designers strive to create the conditions in which they work? What can we learn from the emerging methods and ways of working? Through conversations and submitted sketches, the designers reflected upon these questions. In doing so, they afforded a personal introduction into how they develop their artistic practice.

Grant Programme for Talent Development Talent development is one of the Fund’s five key objectives. Every year about 30 highly promising designers/makers are selected to receive a stipend for a year. This is intended for new work, whether research, materials, equipment, or projects in the Netherlands or abroad. The Fund also provides a supporting programme to facilitate the transition to professional practice. There is coaching and support for the whole group as well as one-on-one, in order to foster entrepreneurship and professionalism.
http://talent.stimuleringsfonds.nl/2016/

Liselore Frowijn AW 2016/17

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE LIONS 
Liselore Frowijn AW 2016/17

Art has been an important source of inspiration in the work of Liselore Frowijn, and for this AW16/17 collection she would like to give a big shout out to all feminine artists making a change and showing a different perspective.

The AW16/17 collection is a homage to all strong women who are living or have been living in this world, with Niki de St. Phalle as a muse. The beautiful round volumes this artist has created with her Nana’s, formed, together with the spirit of the energetic and edgy women Frowijn admires, an inspiration for this collection.

She examined the strong signature of Niki’s work, and started designing materials in a similar naïve but bold way; where soft vs. primary colors, curving vs. graphic dessins, sharp vs. soft materials and new vs. recycled textiles are contrasting aspects within the collection. The final image is created by the act of layering, collage and drawing. The silhouettes are strong as trees, sensual in a way and implacable surviving time. The collection is like a modern baroque party, with a paradoxical approach towards materials; where artisan and mechanical designed textiles can jointly exist.

http://www.liselorefrowijn.com

Pictures by Peter Stigter 

Ode to Dutch Fashion at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Exhibition 'Ode to Dutch Fashion' is on display until February 7th 2016

Hurry up because the exhibition 'Ode to Dutch Fashion' is closing on February 7th.
The exhibition gives an overview of the most important developments in Dutch fashion scene. On display you can see Metz & Co eveningwear form the 20ies, iconic Viktor & Rolf pieces, innovative Iris van Herpen 3dprinted dresses but also new names such as Bastian Visch and Liselore Frowijn.

With 'Ode to Dutch Fashion', Gemeentemuseum Den Haag highlights the most influental designers that have
placed the Netherlands firmly on the map as a country of idiosyncratic fashion talent.
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, which has one of the most important fashion collections in the world, provided a first ever major exhibition showcasing the history of Dutch fashion in the Netherlands.

What else can you see in the exhibition
Anyone who saw King Willem-Alexander’s coronation cannot fail to recall the dazzling blue creation – a Jan Taminiau design – worn by Queen Máxima. The Netherlands is home to a huge amount of creativity, and this has certainly not gone unnoticed abroad. Designers with their own strong signature have been particularly successful at rising above the crowd and gaining a strong reputation. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is proud to present a well-deserved Ode to these designers this autumn, and to show how fashion has developed in this country since 1900.

Following international 
trends In the seventeenth century the Dutch elite liked to appear in portraits dressed in dignified black. However, a closer look reveals more than fifty shades of black: from ‘crow black’ to ‘coal black’ and ‘glossy black’. From that time until well into the twentieth century the Dutch followed international fashion, sometimes adapted to their own taste. In the eighteenth century, for example, a great deal of blue silk was worn in the Netherlands, while the French preferred brighter colours like emerald green or lemon yellow. Fashion consciousness grew in the nineteenth century. The Dutch closely followed the latest international trends and the arrival of the luxury department store Hirsch (from Brussels) helped prompt the emergence of a real luxury goods industry towards the end of the century.

Idiosyncratic design 
The first fashion designers to work under their own name in the Netherlands, like Joan Praetorius in the 1920s, continued to follow the lead of Parisian couture for a long time. Praetorius’ designs were admired for their ‘clean lines’ and also their ‘Dutch simplicity and quality’. After the Second World War a whole generation of Dutch designers emerged, including Max Heymans, Dick Holthaus, Frans Molenaar, Fong Leng and Frank Govers. In the 1960s they turned their attention away from Paris, developing their own distinct style, featuring lots of black-and-white, a keen eye for line and shape, and also explosions of colour and idiosyncratic touches. From then on, fashion design courses in the Netherlands, particularly in Arnhem, focused on concept. This resulted in a host of creative designers, who put conceptual Dutch design firmly on the international map in the 1990s.

Major annual fashion exhibition 
Almost ten years ago the Gemeentemuseum presented an exhibition entitled Fashion NL about the young designers of the time. Since then, fashion has been a recurring theme in the annual schedule of exhibitions. ‘Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has a long tradition of presenting fashion, with a clear emphasis on Dutch fashion’, director Benno Tempel explains. ‘Frans Molenaar had a solo exhibition here in the 1980s, for example. But we also frequently work with major foreign fashion houses. This took quite a lot of effort in the beginning, but now they know us and come to us themselves. We recognise the importance of fashion and that is reflected in our exhibitions policy.’

 Photography and design of exhibition 
Ode to Dutch Fashion will feature more than a hundred creations from the history of fashion in the Netherlands from 1900 to 2015. The exhibition has been designed by Maarten Spruyt and Tsur Reshef. The accompanying catalogue will be published by Waanders & de Kunst, and will include articles by Bianca du Mortier, Pascale Gorguet Ballesteros, Madelief Hohé and Georgette Koning. The photographs are by Sabrina Bongiovanni, who has photographed the historical collection and modern designs in typically Dutch settings: on a dike, in a tulip field, and amid the bustle of the city.

For more information:  http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl

Liselore Frowijn at Amsterdam Fashion Week

Liselore Frowijn debut at Mercedez Benz Amsterdam Fashion Week

While her mind has already been set on Paris Fashion Week show in March 2015 where she will have a show, she had been invited to participate at 22nd edition of Mercedez Benz Amsterdam Fashion Week. In Amsterdam Liselore Frowijn presented her third collection which was inspired by a modern translation of the Triadisch Ballet of Oscar Schlemmer. Furthermore she continues to explore the contrast between sportswear and luxury. Significant signature in her work is the use of material and textile experiment which gives her work a very creative, chic and authentic feel.
 "I my work I try to capture the energy of art, people, music and different cultures and by translating all these aspect into fashion . My dream has come true, my first show is a fact! " stated by Liselore
This was surely the case in Amsterdam where her caused an energetic buzz.

http://www.liselorefrowijn.com

* all images by brankopopovicblog

Cologne Fashion Days 2014 Impressions

Bas Kosters Studio

The premier of the CFD | COLOGNE FASHION DAYS 2014, a three-day trade fair for fashion enthusiasts, took place in THE NEW YORKER | DOCK.ONE in Cologne-Mülheim in the weekend of the 14 - 16th of November.

More than 30 fashion labels from Germany and abroad present their latest collections.
In addition to designers from Germany including among others, BRACHMANN, or JOLONTÉ VOUS!, CHANG13, BOUR, Birke van Maartens and
puur. jewellery.
Special guest country this year was the Netherlands. In cooperation with the international fashion platform FASHIONCLASH from The Netherlands, a selection of Dutch designers was presented.
Within the THINK DUTCH SPACE designers Bas Kosters, by Sanne Jansen, ebby port, Deniz Terli, Chris van den Elzen, Judith van Vliet, Liselore Frowijn, Mevan Kaluarachchi, Jivika Biervliet and Joelle Boers. where on display.

More information: www.colognefashiondays.com

Take a look at the highlights of Cologne Fashion Days 2014 

All images are © brankopopovicblog

Cologne Fashion Days 2014

COLOGNE FASHION DAYS 
14 – 16 November

NEW YORKER | DOCK.ONE

COLOGNE CATWALK 
15 November


COLOGNE FASHION DAYS 2014
The New Fashion Format in Cologne More than 30 national & international Young Couture labels present and sell their latest collections.

The long-awaited premier of the CFD | COLOGNE FASHION DAYS 2014, a three-day trade fair for fashion enthusiasts, will take place in THE NEW YORKER | DOCK.ONE in Cologne-Mülheim from the 14th through the 16th of November. The CFD will also provide a brilliant and promising framework for the 4th edition of the highly successful COLOGNE CATWALK, which will take place on the 15th of November.
The COLOGNE FASHION DAYS and the COLOGNE CATWALK both take place under the patronage of Garrelt Duin, Minister for Economic Affairs, Energy, Industry and Commerce of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. As organizer of both events, Ralf Daab and the team of the Cologne-based publishing house DAAB are particularly pleased about the cooperation with TM TextilMitteilungen, the visionary dialogue-magazine for fashion professionals and FashionUnited, a leading international industry network for fashion professionals.

The CFD is aimed at ultimate consumers, while also serving as a PR and marketing platform for young designers and emerging talents. Buying agents are, of course, also welcome; here, they can discover innovative fashion labels and order trendy new collections for their shops. With its cool industrial charm, DOCK.ONE in the Mülheim Harbour is an ideal event location for the new trade fair.

Liselore Frowijn

More than 30 fashion labels from Germany and abroad will present their latest collections and sell these directly to ultimate consumers. In addition to innovative designers from Germany and numerous international labels, including, among others, BRACHMANN, LAROMO + PADICI or JOLONTÉ VOUS!, the local Cologne fashion scene is represented by the likes of, among others, CHANG13 and LIEV by Olivia Zirkel. Special guest country this year is the Netherlands. In cooperation with the internationally active, fashion platform FASHIONCLASH from Maastricht, the Netherlands are presenting a choice selection of ten Dutch designers, including BAS KOSTERS, by Sanne Jansen, ebby port, Deniz Terli, Chris van den Elzen, Judith van Vliet, Liselore Frowijn, Mevan Kaluarachchi, Jivika Biervliet x Peter Hsieh and Joelle Boers in the THINK DUTCH SPACE.
On all three fair days, an interesting supplementary program will present lectures, interviews and talks revolving around the world of fashion on the CFD Stage. Finally, fashion schools will also provide information on their educational programs like Design Department from Düsseldorf.

The 4th COLOGNE CATWALK will take place on Saturday, the 15th of November. Artistic Director of the COLOGNE CATWALK is Waldek Szymkowiak, who has choreographed shows for labels such as Michalsky, Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Dior. A jury will select six designers from among all fair participants to present their latest collections in the show section of the COLOGNE CATWALK. More than 500 guests are expected to attend the “wavemusic Private Chill” after-show party.



Tickets for the COLOGNE FASION DAYS and the COLOGNE CATWALK are available at KölnTicket.de. http://goo.gl/JzOr5R

More information: http://www.colognefashiondays.com

Liselore Frowijn - Fracture Space

Fracture space 
In her work fashion designer Liselore Frowijn is permanently searching for the clash on sportswear and luxury. The concept of her new collection ‘’Fracture space’’ is based on the wardrobe of a woman who is fully at ease with herself. She moves elegantly and dynamically in space, and lets no person interrupt her energy. Instinctively she knows the base of pure luxury. The silhouette is based upon biking-jackets and polo-shirts, carried out in tweed, and finished with sporty pipings. Liselore combined her own developed and hand painted fabrics with materials from the outdoor industry, together with rich jacquards from Italy. With this collection she caught all vibrations of this enervating year, all bits and pieces that surrounded her and developed her signature. Like the paintings of Kokoschka she examined during the development of the collection: his powerful paintings displayed the energy of his characters, and he unrevealed their soul on almost an animal kind of way with his rough brush. His work inspired Frowijn to develop rhythmic prints, floral and striped, carried out in colours of the famous landscape-paintings by British painter David Hockney.

During SALON/BIG BANG fashion designer Liselore Frowijn will present her new collection and fragrance. Liselore recently graduated cum laude at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem in 2013 on her bachelor of fashion design. With her final collection she won the Frans Molenaar Couture Award and participated in the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères last April, where she won the Grand Prix with her design for Chloé. This year she worked on several projects such as for Vlisco and participated on several exhibitions. During the last months Frowijn worked on her new collection.

http://www.liselorefrowijn.com

text Liselore Frowijn
images Jeroen Snijders

Looking back to Hyères Festival 2014

It's been two weeks since 29th edition of Hyères Festival took place. I had the pleasure to cooperate as a blog partner and share beautiful content. I am already looking forward to next year and hopefully I will be able to visit Hyères.
Filep Motwary captured the essence of the festival with a wonderful series of images covering backstage magic, jury presentations, music and more.
Please scroll down and enjoy.

All images are by Filep Motwary.


More about the 2014 winners: here


More information about the festival: http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com

Hyères Festival Instagram: http://instagram.com/villanoailles

Hyères Festival 2014 Winners

Kenta Matsushige wins at Hyères Festival 2014

image by: the Stimuleye

Kenta Matsushige is winner of the Gran Prix of Hyères 2014 - 29th edition of International Fashion & Photography Festival 

The jury also awarded the Prix Public de la Ville d’Hyères to French designer Coralie Marabelle and Yulia Yefimtchuk from Ukraine.
The Prix Chloé, sponsored by the Festival’s official partner and awarded to the designer who best reinterprets the look of the French house, went to Liselore Frowijn and Roshi Porkar.
Italian-British photographer Lorenzo Vitturi took the Grand Prix du Jury Photographie for the Dalston Anatomy Series.

Kenta Matsushige, graduate from the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne was chosen from a shortlist of 10 other designers. Inspired by the architecture of Japanese museums and the augmented reality videos that allow virtual 2D or 3D elements to be added to our natural perception of reality, the collection was voted to win by the Festival jury.
This years fashion jury panel was led by Kenzo's creative directors Carol Lim and Huberto Leon. The jury team featured actress Chloë Sevigny, Opening Ceremony Director of Buying Carol Song, VMan editor-in-chief Jay Massacret and InStyle USA fashion director Eric Wilson.

More information about the festival's participants and jury: here.

Hyères Festival 2014

Hyères 2014 - 29th edition of International Fashion & Photography Festival 

Founded 29 years ago by Jean-Pierre Blanc, Hyères has become one of the most relevant platforms for young talent.
Eech year, some time in April, within the surroundings of the avant-gardeVilla Noailles, a Cubist style building constructed in the 1920's by Mallet-Stevens, the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography brings together a selection of promising fashion and photography talent.

The  Hyères Festival has proved to be a springboard for many well known names including; Viktor & Rolf, Gaspard Yurkievich, Christian Wijnants, C Neeon, Romain Kremer, Anthony Vaccarello, Julien Dossena, Peter Bertsch, Sandra Backlund,  Mareunrol’s, Alexandra Verschueren,  Léa Peckre and many more.

Villa Noailles, Photography Olivier Amsellem

The 29th edition of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyères will take place April 25th - 28th,  with exhibitions open until May 25th.

photography Filep Motwary

BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG is an official blog partner for Hyères 2014!

photography Filep Motwary

The fashion jury features Carol Lim and Humberto Leon (Creative Directors of KENZO), Carol Song (Opening Ceremony), Chloé Sevigny (actress), Spike Jonze (film director), Jay Massacret (editor in chief for V Man) and Eric Wilson (fashion news director for American InStyle magazine), Pamela Golbin ( general curator, fashion and textile, Les Arts Décoratifs) and Maurizio Cattelan (artist)

The jury panel selected 10 candidates for the final competition (+ 312 files received from 55 nationalities, 45 shortlisted).

The photography jury, choose the 10 shortlisted photographers (743 entries received from 45 nationalities and 60 shortlisted).
The jury consisted of: Steve Hiett (photographger), Manish Arora (fashion designer), Damien Poulain (creative director and publisher, Oodee, London), Cathy Rémy (deputy photography director, Le Monde M, Paris),  Brett Rogers (director, The Photographers’ Gallery, London) and Oliver Sieber, photographer).

Liselore Frowijn (Netherlands)

Selection 2014 

Fashion designers
- Liselore Frowijn (Netherlands)
- Pablo Henrard (Belgium)
- Marit Ilison (Estonia)
- Anne Kluytenaar (Netherlands)
- Coralie Marabelle (France)
- Kenta Matsushige (Japan)
- Agnese Narnicka (Latvia)
- Louis-Gabriel Noucji (France)
- Roshi Porkar ( Austria)
- Yulia Yefimtchuk (Ukraine)

Photographers
- Anna Grzelewska (Poland)
- Osma Harvilahti (Finland)
- Arnaud Lajeunie (France)
- Orianne Lopes (France)
- Birthe Piontek (Germany/Canada)
- Virginie Rebetez (Switzerland)
- Marie Rime (Switzerland)
- Marleen Sleeuwits (Netherlands)
- Charlotte Tanguy ( France)
- Lorenzo Vitturi (Italy)

http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com


Fashion finalists photography: Stimuleye

Opening WinterSALON / 2014

Frowijn & Tilanus Atelier

On Sunday, January 26, SALON/ had its 14th salon event opening in three years. The Winter/SALON 2014 kick off opening took place at Porsthoornkerk.
Manon Schaap and Gijs Stork, the initiators of SALON stated that their mission with SALON is to create intimate settings for dialogues, presentations and to show the stories behind the work.  They aim to be a showcase of the process behind art and design instead of just showing the finished work.
The multidisciplinary installations at Posthoornkerk expressed this approach with a variety of work by talents from Design Academy Eindhoven, Collectie Arnhem 2014 by Artez students and my personal highlight, the work of Aaltje Kramer. Kramer presented her 'Fashion Without Images' project where she translated fashion editorials into words and poetry. She invites the audience to use their immagination.
Opera singer Imara Thomas performed within the 'youasme measyou' installation and in addition there is an interesting installation by Conny Groenewegen & Frans-Pieter Vonck, Berber Soepboer.

I have also visited Lensvelt location where you can see work by Frowijn&Tilanus Atelier, Sander Wassink Ma'ayan Pesach and Marga Weimans.

Frowijn&Tilanus Atelier is a collaboration of two very talented designers who graduation collections where noticed and awarded. Liselore Frowijn won Frans Molenaar Couture Award 2013 and Henriëtte Tilanus won G-Star Raw Lichting 2013 Award. Recently she won the People's Price at H&M Award 2014. Keep your eyes on this two designers!

Furthermore there are many presentations and events during WinterSALON / 2014  that is taking place until February 9 in Amsterdam.

For more information about the program.
http://www.salon1.org

Fashion Forever - ArtEZ Graduation Show 2013

Anneleen Bertels

On 6 and 7 June ArtEZ presented the collections of the fashion students of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. The spectacular catwalk show showcased 30 graduation collections.
The entire fashion department was presented: the graduates of the Master programme and the first three years and the final year of the bachelor Fashion Design.

For 60 years in row the fashion department of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts has produced successful fashion designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Li Edelkoort, Peet Dullaert, Jef Montes, the People of the Labyrinths, Lucas Ossendrijver (Lanvin), Jan Taminiau, Iris van Herpen, Ann Boogaerts, Spijkers en Spijkers, Monique van Heist and many more.

Stéphanie Baechler

Christina Engsig

Liselore Frowijn

All pictures are by Peter Stigter.