The Exchange is a new hotel in Amsterdam where fashion meets architecture … Hotel The Exchange is an initiative by Lloyd Hotel and the cultural embassy Amsterdam. Students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute dressed the rooms like models on the catwalk. As a visitor you sleep in fashion and wake up in style… The hotel [...]
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The Exchange Hotel in Amsterdam
February 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Fashion, Interior Design, Uncategorized
Tags:Architecture·Exchange Hotel·Fashion·Hotel Amsterdam·interior design
Balancing between art and design
February 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Design, Fashion, Textile Art
Sophie Duran lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. As a conceptual designer, Sophie balances between art and design. Sophie’s new collection is a wonderful series of scarves, titled “Undiscovered Wonders of the World”. The scarves are digitally printed on crepe de chine and silk velvet. The project came about with the cooperation of the [...]
Fashion at the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
January 31st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Culture, Fashion
From January 6, 2012 through June 26, 2012 With CULTURE COUTURE, The Tropen Museum in Amsterdam shows how authentic costumes from different cultures can inspire new, contemporary couture. In this exhibition you’ll see the work of three promising international designers from Antwerp’s renowned Fashion Academy: Manon Kundig, Teddy Beard Collection Tabitha Osler, Mount Analogue (Be [...]
Tags:Fashion·Fashion Academy Antwerp·Tabitha Osler·Tropen Museum Amsterdam
Borre Akkersdijk
January 23rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · Fashion
Borre Akkersdijk is a Dutch designer based in Paris, working in different fields like trend-forecasting, making clothing and perfumes. For more of his work see By Borre.
Inspired by Azzedine Alaïa
January 16th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Fashion, Life, Work in progress...
A little while back we visited the exhibition of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa in the Groninger Museum. Although not all of Alaïa clothing appeals to me, this exhibition is absolutely beautiful! The detail in some of the clothing is just amazing! I have no idea If we ever going to use it, [...]
One-Sheep Sweaters
January 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Fashion, Jewelry, Uncategorized
A few years back designers were invited by the Audex Textiel Museum in Tilburg, The Netherlands to experiment with making yarn from natural materials. During the process the designers were pleasantly surprised to discover exactly how many natural and plant-based materials could be made into yarns, including potato peelings, peanuts, milk, maize and seaweed. Jewelry [...]
Sculptures and fashion
January 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Art, Fashion
Adrienne Antonson is a visual artist working in the fields of sculpture and fashion. These are her amazing sculptures made of human hair. Adrienne also designs clothing for the label STATE, all these pieces are one of a kind and all made of repurposed fabrics. Her clothing is for sale at Nube Green. PS. The following [...]
Tags:Adrienne Antonson·handcrafted clothing·handmade fashion·sculptures made of hair
Happy New Year!
December 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Fashion, Interior Design, Jewelry, Textile Art
Fleur Goedendorp graduated from the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, object of study: fashion accessories. Fleur makes gorgeous textile collars and headwear but also jewelry, interior and fashion accessories. Be sure to look at Fleur’s site. I think this movie with Fleur’s work so enchantingly beautiful that I use it to [...]
Tags:Fleur Goedendorp·Happy New Year!·hats·headgear·textile art
Japanese online
December 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Ceramics, Design, Fashion, Interior Design, Uncategorized
Know idea how I found this beautiful Japanese online store, they don’t tell much about themselves so maybe they are such a big name that I ought to know them? Anyway please take a look at their site and blog it is all so very Japanese and beautiful … Hand hammered copper kettle Stools Japanese [...]
Tags:copper kettle·Japanese interior shop·Jurgen Lehl·wooden stool
Men who knit
December 3rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Fashion, Handmade, Textile Art
Emancipation? Cabaret? Trendy? Victor and Rolf gone eco? Totally hip? You tell me … Arne Nerjordet from Norway and Carlos Zachrison from Sweden in a video to promote their knitting pattern book and the way they live. The design duo Arne & Carlos started by knitting sweaters and accessories in traditional Scandinavian knitting patterns. Forced [...]
Tags:Arne and Carlos·handknitted sweater·Knitted Christmas balls·Knitting·knitting pattern book·Norwegian sweaters
