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Monday, 30 August 2010

Vivianne Sassen in Toulouse (France)

Viviane Sassen 'Flamboya', Château d'eau in Toulouse (30 June - 19 September 2010)

Viviane Sassen spent part of her youth in Kenya where her father was a doctor, and her earliest memories date from this time. She began her career as an artist and fashion photographer, before returning to the continent of her childhood in 2002. Since then, Africa has become the sole object of her photographic work.
http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/

http://www.vivianesassen.com/#/flamboya

The Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi

This summer I travelled through France. One of the surprises was the red brick town Albi, the home of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and a museum devoted to his work. More than 1000 works, including the 30 famous posters, are kept within the walls. This body of work forms the largest public collection in the world devoted to Toulouse-Lautrec.

Musée Toulouse-Lautrec

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin / Pretty Much Everything

Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin / Pretty Much Everything /

photographs 1985-2010
25 June 2010 until 15 September 2010 at Foam

Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chloé, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are amongst the most important photographers in the world today. They are amongst the very few artists that have successfully crossed the line drawn between fashion and art and have managed to simultaneously maintain careers in both fields. The team has lived and worked in New York since 1995.

You can see the work of the famous photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin at Foam (Amsterdam)until the 15th of September. It is worth a visit!

Foam shows approximately 300 photographs spanning 25 years of the duo’s career. Art, fashion and portrait works all exist next to each other. By disregarding any chronological order the combinations of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years.

© Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Lichting 2010

Lichting 2010 at AIFW (Amsterdam International Fashion week)
15 July 2010 Westergasfabriek

Bringing together the very best of The Netherlands' fashion academies, Lichting was founded in 2007 to bridge the gap between the academies and students on the one side and the talent-hungry fashion industry on the other.
Each academy nominates their two best graduates. Selection at the academies is undertaken by the senior lecturers. A total of fourteen designers will show their collections at Amsterdam International Fashion Week (AIFW). As a result, Lichting is one of the most highly principled fashion events in the Netherlands, both in terms of quality and representation.

As official supporter of Lichting 2010, G-Star presents the G-Star Raw Talent Award; a €10.000 prize and experience trip to New York. The winner will be part of the G-Star Raw backstage team during the upcoming New York Fashion Week show on 14 September.

Lichting 2010 finalists:

Ingo Binder: Academy of Fine Art, Maastricht
Tony Marcus Sacharias: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Merel de Jong: Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Amsterdam
Marije Hellwich: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Lotte van Schijndel: ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem, Arnhem
Floor Kolen: Amsterdam Fashion Institute, Amsterdam
Bianca Herranz van Roeden: ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem, Arnhem
Ruby Verhoeven: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Musa Shah: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Matthias Louwen: Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht
Mariko Ferrier: Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht
Marije de Haan: Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
Karolina Nieslony: Academy of Fine Art, Maastricht
Janneke Lemmers: Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

Ingo Binder

Ingo Binder's collection at FASHIONCLASH MAASTRICHT, picture by Peter Stigter

Floor Kolen

picture by Peter Stigter

picture by Peter Stigter

Merel de Jong

picture by Peter Stigter

Karolina Nieslony

Lotte van Schijndel

Finale

http://www.lichting10.nl/

And the winner is... Marije de Haan

photo by Lonneke van der Palen

Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2010 part II

15 July 17:00 - Westergasfabriek (Machinegebouw)
Fashion Week LAB

FIA generation 11 fashion designers Franciscus van der Meer, Jiska van Rossum and Oda Pausma showed their collections at AIFW. I really liked the whole show, the presentation and the music. Wonderful work!
* Music: My Little Underground

Impressions of the 13th edition of AIFW (Amsterdam International Fashion Week)
14 - 18 July 2010

s/s 2011

http://www.amsterdamfashionweek.com/

Salon/1

SALON/1 presented fashion, design and art at various locations in Amsterdam from 15th-18th July 2010.
I've not been able to visit it all the locations during my two days in Amsterdam but here is a selection of few highlights. My personal favorite was the presentation in Museum van Loon!

SALON/1 is an initiative of Gijs Stork, Manon Schaap and Cathal Mckee.
for more information http://www.salon1.nl/

ABKM 2010 Graduation

Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht " Graduation 2010"

Timmerfabriek Maastricht / 1 - 4 July

Jewellery and product design

Christiaan Lebens ' Ode to imperfection'

Christiaan Lebens with the leading lady of jewellery and product design department, Chequita Nahar

Christiaan Lebens wearing Branko Popovic for his graduation

Dik Scheepers ' Pieces of II'

Judith Peterhoff ' The placebo effect of jewellery'

Hansen Hoepner 'Vlieger'

Fashion and Textile design
This year presentation of the fashion design graduates is really strong. Beautiful photography and collection books. One of my favorites is Yvonne Laufer. Ingo Binder made a really strong mens collection inspired by pelgrims and is selected for Lichting 2010 together with Karolina Nieslony. Nora Julliette designed a nice and wearable mens collection, very well styled with self made accessories. But overall I have to say well done! to the eight graduates.

Ingo Binder and Rita Suers ( one of the coordinators of the fashion and textile department)