Backstage at KABK Graduation 2024

With a professional show comes a professional backstage with the hard working crew at make-up and hair. Take a look backstage at the Graduationshow 2024 of ArtEZ.

KABK Graduation-show 2024

It’s Graduation-time! Today a a selection of the Graduation-show of KABK, the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague. This year eight fashion-students presented their final collection.

Yara de Vries

Elke Cloïn

Zia Zhang

Wassim el Hodayebi

Sophie Bogstedt

Julia Groven

Patrick Ochmanski

Peter Wertman

ArtEZ Graduationshow 2024 Backstage

With a professional show comes a professional backstage with the hard working crew at make-up and hair. Take a look backstage at the Graduationshow 2024 of ArtEZ.

ArtEZ Graduationshow 2024

Finally it’s Graduation-time! We will kick off with a selection of the Graduation-show of ArtEZ. This year 11 fashion-students presented their final collection. ArtEZ is the fashion-department of the University of the Arts in Arnhem. 

Yelyzaveta Kostenko

Sophie-Marie Ordo

Fie Lenders

Arva Bustin

Christiaan Sebastian Kock

Loreta Rogule

Darina Denisova

Hannah Hasler

 Nouka Rous

Madelief de Lange

Zihao Li

Hunkemöller Brand Event 2024

The Dutch lingerie-label Hunkemöller presented their new collection this week in with a celebration of the female body in all its glory and power. It was an empowering show and fun to be present.

AMFI Graduation 2023-2024 Part 2

Over the past year, AMFI Fashion & design graduates have been working hard to develop their collections for the first show of 2024. Not only were the collections of the new graduates on show in the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam on January 25th , but also those of the graduates of 5 July 2023. We’ll present them in parts. This is part 2

Alex Popeskcu

Sanne Vlaming

David Siepman

Backstage Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture SS2024

Take a look backstage at the haute coutureshow spring-summer 2024 of Viktor & Rolf in Paris. The finishing touch of make up and hair plus the final check by the designers.

Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Fashion Show SS2024

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, the designers behind Viktor & Rolf, can always be trusted to bring some humour to the Haute Couture shows. With their latest collection, the Dutch duo once again tapped into the absurd, delivering a collection that was entirely black but full of lightness.

Playing off the friction of indecision, where we’re often pulled to extremes of choices, Viktor & Rolf’s Spring/Summer 2024 coutureshow entitled ‘Viktor & Rolf Scissorhands’, was comprised of seven “flawless couture outfits” that were then used as blueprints for three consecutive iterations of the same design. As if slowly disintegrating, looks escalated to complete dismemberment by way of erratic cutting.

The concept “investigates the creative (im)possibilities of a pair of tailor’s scissors, when used spontaneously to experiment with decorative cutting,” read a statement. “From minuscule holes in a Rorschach motif to a ballgown hacked in half: holes and slashes are controlled and directed but also form instances of orchestrated chaos.”

The result was half-slashed bodices, tulle skirts carved up haphazardly, large bits of fabric peeled away and exposed layers. While ‘ruining’ a garment may sound like easy work, the craftsmanship involved in the original pieces and their slashed-up counterparts was not lost on viewers.

Ruben Jurrien Catwalk Fashion Show SS2024

Ruben Jurriën – last years winner of Lichting 2022 – presented his collection. Funky, inclusive, optimistic and with lots of L.O.V.E !

LICHTING 2023

The Lichting 2023 award was won by designer Yousra Razine Mahrah, who just graduated from ArtEZ. Her comment on her collection: “I am not afraid. Not afraid to combine materials or concepts that exist in different worlds. This is also because I am a person that navigates within worlds that are clashing against each other and I am standing in the middle of it trying to make it work.”
Embarking on a creative journey that weaves together four distinct facets of her personal identity as a Moroccan woman, Yousra displayed a technically immaculate collection drawn from her upbringing in a restrictive Islamic household. Influences from Berber Folklore people in Morocco, Moroccan street style fashion, the vision her parents held for her – a more conservative and modest appearance, and lastly her own sartorial choices. Sensual lingerie against parental modesty, Berber goat skin traditions, and Dutch-imposed stereotypes create a dynamic tension between concept, as well as material and texture choices. Using Geert Wilders’ notorious 2014 “Minder Marokkanen” speech as the backdrop of her show, her collection K*TMAROKKAAN withholds a powerful statement that, similar to her designs, won’t go unnoticed.

The Jury Report
This year, the panel of international jury members included Marlo Saalmink (Curator at large & Artistic Director), Tom van der Burght (Visual Artist and Fashion Designer), Ahmad Larnes (Creative Producer Tommy Hilfiger), and Gry Nissen (Creative Design Director and Brand Developer).

The participants of Lichting 2023 were: Annalie van Doorn, Yousra Razine Mahrah, Bastiaan Reijnen, Tim van der Plas, Ulkuhan Akgul, Floyd Rorije, Joseph William Raidt, Berke Taslidere, André Konings, and Eva Marie-Louise Vos.

In the first block of images you’ll see the winning collection. Followed by overviews of the collections of other participating designers: Tim van der Plas, Joseph William Raidt, Floyd Rorije, Bastiaan Reijnen, Andre Konings, Eva Marie Louise Vos, Annalie Van Doorn, Ulkuhan Akgul and Berke Taslidere.

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