Fashion For Good - Museum for sustainable fashion

In October, the world’s first interactive museum for sustainable fashion innovation opened in Amsterdam. The Experience is an interactive museum outfitted with the latest technology. If you’re interested in fashion, innovation and sustainability this is a fun, immersive must-visit venue in Amsterdam. The museum aims to change the hearts and minds of the visitors by telling stories behind the clothes you wear, shows you how to take action and have a positive impact on the fashion industry. Through a personalised digital journey with an RFID-bracelet you can learn about the history of good fashion, discover sustainable products and explore fashion innovations of the future. Throughout the building, you can find concrete ways to have a positive impact, commit to taking action and shop sustainable products.

In its Good Shop, the Fashion for Good Experience also showcases current concepts that show good fashion is already available today. The store features curated product collections that are built around inspiring themes and swapped out every three months.
The first theme is “Splash: Rethinking the Role of Water in Fashion” and features products from adidas x Parley, Kings of Indigo, ECOALF, Insane in the Rain, Karün and Ms. Bay.

The Fashion for Good Experience, at Rokin 102 in Amsterdam, will open on the 5th of October. The Experience will be open seven days a week and is free of entry.

More information about current programme and Fashion for good: https://fashionforgood.com

Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation 2018

Boris Maas - The Urge to Sit Dry'

The Graduation Show 2018 was the first edition in almost two decades to take place outside the walls of Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). This move to a venue on the site of the historic Campina Milk Factory reflects a major shift in the public’s perception of design and the role of DAE.  
‘The relevance of design today’ says creative director Joseph Grima, ‘has vested us with a position in which we, as a profession, have unparalleled influence over our collective future. Now it is down to us, as an institution, to extend the horizon of design education in response, questioning and revisiting how we present our work and generate discourse and debate.’
G18 showcase featured 208 projects by 185 graduates, who shared their visions to the wide audience.

www.designacademy.nl

Take a look at my picture report that show most of the highlights.

State of Fashion 2018 | Searching for the new luxury

Iris van Herpen

From Friday 1 June until Sunday 22 July,  State of Fashion displays the search for the new luxury.

Curated by José Teunissen, the Dean of London College of Fashion/UAL, and Professor of Fashion Theory, State of Fashion explores how we can apply fashion’s imaginative, seductive and innovative power to create a more futureproof fashion cycle.

The exhibition shows pioneering designers and thinkers who are proposing innovative and sustainable ideas and designs that are contributing to a better world.
The main question is how can we redifine the meaning of luxury in the context of the world of today, facing sociatel and environmental changes.

The exhibition features several components offering diverse approaches to the subject. The journey starts with innovative future proposals with projects from Yuima Nakazato, Rafael Kouto and Iris van Herpen. Further in the exhibition one can discover new business models such as Matti Liimatainen (Self-Assembly) and work by pioneers like Bruno Pieters (Honest By). The exhibition also shows how cross-disciplinary collaboration and research between science and fashion education can lead to new opportunities through material experiments. One of the strongest features is the contribution by Vivienne Westwood who in her later career still stands in the frontier to fight for a better world.
Each Friday, during the exhibition period, The Whataboutery debates are organized providing a platform for dialogue about various topics related to the theme of State of Fashion. 
For more information: https://stateoffashion.org


State of Fashion
The four-yearly fashion event State of Fashion focuses on a sustainable future. As an international and interdisciplinary platform for ideas, experiment, research and collaboration, State of Fashion unites designers, companies and fashion education with the shared ambition to make their industry more future-oriented, more fair, more environmentally friendly and more humane.

Take a look at my picture report

Yuima Nakazato

Dutch Design Week 2015

Zeeuws Museum & Antoine Peters

Dutch Design Week is a nine days event that takes place in Eindhoven. The nine days programme offers an extensive mix of events throughout the cities. I have managed to visit several events, mostly in the main venues such as the Klokgebouw, Kazerne, Piet Hein Eek, DAE Graduation show and this years highlight the Modebelofte 2015 at the Philips Stadion.

In addition to images below you can also take a look at more reports on DDW2015:

* Modebelofte 2015 
* Design Academy Eindhoven    Graduation 2015 
* In No Particular Order
 * Damn Pretty Dutch Shoes

http://www.ddw.nl

First fashion retail concept launched for Google Cardboard

The byAMFI Statement Store makes history as the first fashion retail space for the virtual reality app Google Cardboard. In under a minute: download the Virtual Tour byAMFI app from the Play Store, place your Android in the handheld cardboard, then explore the store in six scenes as if you're actually there.
Special 360-degree photography of the store was programmed into an interactive experience under guidance of the Crossmedia research group of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). Access a moment in time from the one-of-a-kind space on Amsterdam's Spui anytime from anywhere in the world. The tour shares information about the store, the items for sale and the concept behind the visual merchandising.
The app stimulates curiosity to visit the store; manager Rosiane Kuijper sees more opportunities: “Many fashion brands have been exploring virtual reality to build a bridge between the digital and the physical. The millennial generation seeks post-digital experiences, so omnichannel as a strategy is growing. A tour of byAMFI in virtual reality is an innovative step in the right direction.”

Google’s Cardboard is available nearly everywhere and costs about €20, or you can make your own. Virtual reality is hot, especially as fashion brands have seized the opportunity to get involved. Five days ago ELLE launched a virtual fashion shoot for Android and Cardboard. Kenzo has a free art gallery online, Jimmy Choo a shoppable showroom, Valentino a virtual fashion museum, Topshop broadcasted live from the runway with Facebook’s Oculus Rift and there are many other examples. The AUAS and byAMFI are proud to be a part of the pioneers.

Surf to http://bit.ly/virtualtourbyAMFI from your Android to download the tour, soon available for iPhone.

Brighton Fashion Week 2013

BRIGHTON FASHION WEEK 2013
It’s back, ready for its turn on the catwalk for the fourth consecutive year... 
13th – 16th June 2013

Brighton Fashion Week strives to showcase innovative and new talent alongside more established designers. Famed for its extravagance, eccentricity and singular approach to fashion spectacles, there is no other platform like it to push the boundaries of fashion, costume design and artistry.







EVENT SCHEDULE 

Jess Eaton

Zeitgeist Catwalk Show 
Thursday, 13 June
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton

The Zeitgeist show is the high end, pinnacle of Brighton Fashion Week. From the sophisticated and refined, to the haute couture and avant-garde, our Zeitgeist show aims to showcase the most exciting and innovative fashion design out there. Just some of the designers confirmed so far are the likes of Hyung Tae Kim from South Korea, showcasing his new menswear collection exploring the art of sartorial construction along with the return of Jess Eaton who is back with a brand new collection exclusive to Brighton Fashion Week, which is guaranteed to be just as jaw dropping as the last.

Sustain Catwalk Show 
Friday, 14 June St. Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton

For the first time since Brighton Fashion Week began, we will be putting on a show dedicated to the art of eco fashion design. Our 2013 Sustain show will prove that environmentally conscious fashion design is as exciting and equally as glamorous as the rest of the fashion world. We will be showcasing emerging sustainable designers such as Rebecca Jane Taylor who was given the opportunity to design and make the Speedo Unity Dress that was unveiled at the London 2012 Olympics, Liora Lassalle a Central St Martins graduate and former Brightonian who recently won the Estethica/ Veolia Re-source competition together with well established designers such as Fabryan, a high end, luxurious womenswear label.

Uta Bekaia &  The Purple Jester
photo by ayakamay

ShowReel Catwalk Show 
Saturday, 15 June St. Bartholomew’s Church, Brighton

Prepare yourself for ShowReel; a costume catwalk show like no other. With no constraints on creativity, ShowReel gives costume designers from around the world free reign on theatrical ideas, designs and characters. The catwalk will become a theatre for one night only, complete with hair, make-up and production fit for the stage. A real playground for the imagination. This focus on theatrics has been seen with previous Brighton Fashion Week designers but it takes a step up for 2013 making costume design a starring feature of Brighton Fashion Week. Uta Bekaia will be travelling from New York to showcase his inspiring designs alongside Curve Couture, a Brighton- based designer who combines elegant engineering with creative costumery in her one of a kind fantasy outfits.


OTHER EVENTS

People’s Day Saturday, 15th June

Brighton Fashion Week will also be teaming up with People’s Day, taking place across the city of Brighton. We will be hosting the Health and Wellbeing Zone in Jubilee Square in the North Laines. Look out for exciting activities, designer sales and intriguing installations.

The Highstreet Fashion Show (Sponsored by Churchill Square)
www.churchillsquare.co.uk
Sunday, 16 June Churchill Square, Brighton

Affordable, wearable and right on your doorstep, this show allows you to snap the same outfits as the models on the catwalk. Focusing on Summer trends, don’t miss this opportunity to add to your Summer style wish list!

For more information on all of the shows and to buy tickets please visit www.brightonfashionweek.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrightonFashionWeek

Twitter: @BFW13 #brightonfashionweek

Blue Jeans exhibition at Centraat Museum Utrecht

Blue jeans, from 17th century to present day 

You don't even have to take a closer look to notice that Dutch people love to wear jeans like no other. Jeans is dominating the  streetstyles in the Netherlands.
Apparently the Dutch wear the highest number of jeans per head of the population.
Based on general street style in the Netherlands this is not something to pursue. However this exhibition proves that there are reasons to be proud of this fact.
With this exhibition Centraal Museum Utrecht is showing the historical and current aspects of jeans. The exhibition shows the experimental and creative side of jeans: from their origin as work wear in the 17th century, to high fashion in the 20th century, to contemporary jeans - including worldwide renowned Dutch brands such as G-Star.
What's so great about this exhibition is that it covers all kinds of topics and that it shows some amazing pieces from classic  jeans brands to jeans couture from Maison Martin Margiela, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Vivienne Westwood.

As Yves Saint Laurent often repeated: “I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes”.

Blue jeans, from 17th century to present day is open until March 10
http://centraalmuseum.nl

Winde Rienstra show at Amsterdam Fashion Week

Winde Rienstra, a must see show at Amsterdam Fashion Week. This time she showed an overal black collection in combination with wood. Great looks & great shoes again.

http://www.winderienstra.com

All images are by Team Peter Stigter.

Chemistry by night fashion show

FASHIONCLASH

*Fashion Show at Chemelot 17 & 18 oktober 2008.

 Nawie Kuiper and Branko Popovic organised this show and made all the clothes presented on the catwalk.

For this show it was all about products which exist out of raw materials produced by DSM and SABIC.

The fabrics, such as nylon and acryl ,that we used for this white collection are made with fibres produced by DSM.

Other products such as supermarket bags from AH ,chips bags and cola & fanta jackets are made of fibres produced by SABIC.

*more info and pictures on this link : DSM

Pictures by Ermindo Armino.