Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011: Highlights MMKA
June 1, 2011 by Jetty
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Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem (MMKA)
One of the exposition areas of the Arnhem Mode Biënnale 2011 is the Museum of Modern Art (Museum voor Moderne Kunst). During this month you can go there to visit the Get Real / Real Self exposition. This expo, created by Joke Robaard en Giene Steenman, basically forms a spacial encyclopedia of clothes.
Like fashion editors Robaard and Steenman combined visual images, real clothes and words to present us their idea of the language of fashion… You’ll see a range of different coats and parkas, you’ll meet a mouse made of clothes, you bump into Brooke Shields and you’ll discover why fashion is about getting real.
Series of capes and parkas ranging from functional (a Hema rain coat or an old parka worn by Eskimos) to fashionable (a designer parka/coat)
Check out the gallery of highlights below
Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011: What is fashion?
June 1, 2011 by Jetty
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From today on the Arnhem Mode Biënnale 2011 is officially open for anyone who’s curious to learn more about fashion and art. Yesterday the Dutch press learned all about the highlights of the fourth edition of this fashion event and coming days we will show you what the Arnhem Mode Biënnale has to offer.
Whether you’re a big fan of art, you’re dying to attend a fashion show or you just love to wander around in big exposition halls the Arnhem Mode Biennale has it all. You’ll find Amber in the Museum of Modern Art (Museum voor Moderne Kunst), the central exhibition space at the Akzo Nobel area and in many small(er) areas throughout the city of Arnhem.
Artistic Director JOFF
This year’s artistic director is JOFF (previous years Piet Paris was in charge). With Amber he wants to answer the question ‘ What is fashion?’ and during this month Amber will show everyone what fashion can be…
Official opening Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011
June 1, 2011 by Jetty
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Amber has arrived in Arnhem and a lot of fashion-lovers and -insiders celebrated her arrival yesterday afternoon. We spotted designers Bas Kosters, Mada van Gaans and Sjaak Hullekes amongst others and much more well dressed people in Dutch fashion.
Amber has arrived!
June 1, 2011 by Jetty
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Yesterday afternoon the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011 was officially opened. So Amber finally has arrived in Arnhem and a large crowd of fashion-insiders and -lovers welcomed her at the Akzo-grounds.
In the morning the international press got a private viewing, followed by the opening ceremony and a very pleasant diner where guests were seated like a large family.One of the highlights was the lighting of the candle/installation of AF Vandevorst – the sleeping beauty will shine her light during the Biennale. Let’s see what surprise she has in mind for us.
Arnhem Mode Biennale kicks off
May 31, 2011 by Jetty
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Yesterday the preparations for the Arnhem Mode Biennale were still in full swing. Designers and production-teams added the last touch to their installations in the main location at the Akzo-grounds, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and the city.
Today at 3 pm sharp the Arnhem Mode Biennale will be opened officially. Of course we will inform you about this event, here’s a small impression of the last day before the opening.
Arnhem Mode Biennale, june 1st – july 3rd.
Opening Sjaak Hullekes store
April 14, 2011 by Jetty
Filed under Arnhem, Featured Items, Menswear, People
Pauline Krikke, major of Arnhem, had the honor to open the first shop of Dutch designer Sjaak Hullekes. Besides his menswear-collection, Hullekes is the first shop in the Netherlands to sell the wonderful French scented candles of LaDuree. And, soon he will present a small collection of womenswear.
The day of the opening, Hullekes had an interview in de Spits and he told the newspaper he wanted to have a store so he can see how people react to his collections and he can get to know his clients better. “And with a shop you can present the identity of a label better”, he said. Besides the store Hullekes also started a webstore, especially for international sales in the US and Japan.
And the latest news is that Sjaak is collaborating with shoe-designer Fred de la Bretonniere, he will be responsible for a new womenswear-collection!
Sjaak Hullekes, Kerkstraat 34, Arnhem ; more info http://sjaakhullekes.blogspot.com
Graduation Shows: Artez – Arnhem
July 3, 2010 by Jetty
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As the last fashion academy Artez held it’s graduation show last Friday. And the saying last but not least does apply here, cause we saw a lotttt of talent.
It was probably the hottest day of the year. Yet the 38 degrees didn’t stop the students, the models and everyone else involved from delivering a great show.
Kris Berden
Kris Berden was one of the students who proved to understand fashion. Her collection was fully built around pleats in al kinds of shapes and size. They were there on a skirt, a top and a dress, which were all in black. The pleats came back in Berden’s grey coats. One ultra-thin and slightly transparent, the other somewhat thicker. All outfits looked great, but maybe the jute top and the black transparent ‘cape’ could have had some pleat-details as well. That way the collection would have been slightly more cohesive.
Britt Tan & Fred Farrow
Two students really dared to experiment with their graduation collections. Britt Tan and Fred Farrow both used a great variaty of colors, materials, shapes and techniques. Britt Tan showed us a bright yellow jumpsuit, a loose knitted orange dress, a skirt made out of all kinds of different pieces of fabric with frayed ends. Her models all wore head scarves. Fred Farrow came up with a few light-colored coats. He used some trenchcoat-inspiration and showed one example with fur and checks. He mixed his coats with printed, colored skirts and tights. On all looks loose pieces of fabric were hanging.
We appreciate the fact that Tan & Farrow both showed some gut with their experimental collections. Yet we feel there collections could have been more cohesive and better tailored. Cause both collections came across as a little messy.
Lotte van Schijndel
Before Lotte van Schijndel’s the models started walking they all stood still on stage in a certain pose. We then could already see some great designs. Lotte van Schijndel made a collection with a classic feeling. Loose clothes, long silhouettes and plain fabrics. The blouses and coats were all without buttons. A few waistcoats gave the models some shape. There was no fuss; Van Schijndel didn’t add anything unnecessary. And that’s a good thing cause minimalism is hot in fashion these days!
Piotrek Panszezyk
Piotrek Panszezyk took the hottest fashion item of the moment, the jumpsuit, and gave it a whole new classy image. He gave all (of his many) designs a feminine, classic twist by adding some sort of airy trail to them. He showed one in black, one with lace on the sides, one white, one red, one purple. All looks varied slightly from each other, yet were still an obvious collection. The only misplaced item was an animal printed fur design. It didn’t look feminine or classy and had no connection to the rest of the collection. One other thing we didn’t understand were the loose ends on – for example – the olive green short and the collar of the purple outfit. But altogether Panszezyk’s collection was pretty impressive.
Melissa Siegrist
One last great collection we want to highlight was that of Melissa Siegrist. She designed womenswear with a very masculine touch. She mostly used grey and showed some perfectly-tailored shorts and blouses. She gave her collection a sporty vibe by adding polo’s and shorts made of jersey fabric. And her transparent pair of navy-colored pants just fit in perfectly.
Peter Stigter & Glamour
June 29, 2009 by Jetty
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As we announced before Peter Stigter is joining an exhibition of Glamour during the Arnhem Mode Biennale, entitled Celebrate Shape. The magazine invited their best photographers to send in their view on Shape. You didn’t go yet? Hurry, it closes july 6th. Location: Coberco Melkfabrieken, Nieuwe Kade 1, Arnhem.
Glamour & Peter Stigter in Arnhem
June 14, 2009 by Jetty
Filed under Arnhem, Events, Fashion Professionals, General, People, Presentations, Team
Now in Arnhem: Glamour The Exhibition, Celebrate Shape. Dutch edition of Glamour invited their best photographers to send in their view on Shape – the theme of Arnhem Mode Biennale 2009. And Peter Stigter is one of them. His futuristic picture of the recent John Galliano-show is in the exhibition, among work of 62 other colleagues like Carli Hermès, Paul Bellaart and Annemarieke van Drimmelen. Location: Coberco Factory, Nieuwe kade 1, Arnhem. Until July 6th.
Arnhem celebrates fashion
Since the opening of the Arnhem Modebiennale 2009 last friday princess Maxima finally deserves the title ‘fashion princess’. It was the first time she chose Dutch fashion – one of Jan Taminiau’s signature mailbag-jackets – for an official event. And we spotted even more enthousiastic fans of Dutch fashion, like Medy van der Laan dressed from head to toe in Viktor & Rolf NO-collection or the major of Arnhem in People of the Labyrinths. They made us feel proud! And please, go and see the exhibition in Arnhem. It’s beautiful, funny, fashionable, avantgarde and celebrates fashion in every part. The Biennale closes at july 6th 2009.
