Dido Yland + Rebecca Ward SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week

Dido Yland

For her summer collection Dido Yland got inspired by trains; the shape and the details as well as the staff. Vintage flight attendant suits became her inspiration for more modern pieces. Pieces that today were sported by low price viagra young girls on colorful flats (by designer Anna Korshun), wearing felt hats (created by hat brand Yashkathore). Their clothes, in a variety of bright shades, made them look even younger. The show outfits, mostly made out of wearable cotton, formed a good mix of formal and casual. Remarkable socks and tights gave the looks a different twist. The girls definitely did not resemble train conductors, yet we could see the reference. Bon Voyage!

Rebecca Ward

This afternoon Rebecca Ward surprised us with her collection Parasomnia; a place between dreams and reality. When the loud bass echoed through the room and small lights shined up on us; we indeed arrived in a different world. A world located in the ephemeral moment between being asleep and awake, where models walking in slow motion appeared one by one. They sported elegant creations decorated by floral prints and tiny ruffles (which came back in the details of the shoes too). Rigid leathers beautifully combined with sheer pieces; accentuating the contrast in Rebecca’s inspiration. Balloon shaped elegant dresses and tough cut out leather pants kind of clashed too, yet eventually worked very well together.

Claes Iversen SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week

Claes Iversen once again blue the Amsterdam Fashion Week audience away with his beautifully crafted feminine designs. This time fringes formed the central theme in his pastel colored summer collection. After the show opened with a big yellow raincoat, a white dress and two suits they slowly started appearing on tops, parts of dresses and skirts. Like in many of his collections Claes was able to perfectly build up the tension, letting the fringe detailing of his creations add up with every look. Leopard prints, metallics and fringes made out of thousands of beads formed the ultimate mix for his ladylike looks. They combined different shades in one look, ranging from sand and turquoise to pink and silver. The final model appearing on stage truly was the queen of fringes as she wore a floor sweeping fringed gown including a matching beaded headpiece. Lots of great splendid dress option here for Claes’ loyal Dutch clients, who were, of course, all present tonight.

Mevan Kaluarachchi SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week

Willem de Kooning Academy graduate (in 2005) Mevan Kaluarachchi presented himself for the first time today during Amsterdam fashion week. The range of menswear items he showed – named Wardrobe – was not just a SS2014 collection, but included looks for both summer and winter. Pieces for all seasons, so to say. From shorts and tees to jersey pants and trenchcoats. Sloughy shirts had special buttons or collars and were longer in the back than in the front. Most of them were loose and airy, even sheer almost. The color palette was a perfect fix of shades suitable for menswear; from red and turquoise to grey and navy. Colors that can be worn all year round, like the clothes that, according to Mevan, are qualitative, comfortable and will last. His creations are meant to stay, let’s hope Mevan is a keeper too!

Franzel + Armand Michiels SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week

Franzel Amsterdam
Eric Franzel made his Amsterdam Fashion Week debut today and presented his small, but strong Franzel collection inspired by the Golden Age. Dark models with partly black painted faces showed minimalistic looks which formed a combination of classic menswear and sportswear influences. Lots of black, white and navy formed the not too summer-y collection. Blouses and shorts looked simple and modern, worn with tights and trench coats. Countless zippers, quilted details and a touch of red on the models’ sneakers kept things interesting. A tough looking girl, fully dressed in black with a big white Franzel logo on her back closed the show. Nice introduction Franzel, see you next season?!

Armand Michiels
Six models with Dior couture-like make-up and hair all appeared on stage together at Armand Michiels. They wore long navy blye clocks and were turned with their back towards the audience. One by one they dropped their cloaks, turned around and showed what they were really wearing. A mix of denim and corsets, so it seemed. Geisha-inspired corset tops (for all kind of  different occasions) in different shades with sculptural origami details in the front, laces at the back and color coordinated jeans or shorts, plus platform heels to go! We’re not exactely sure in which category Armand belongs; but it was an interesting mix of casual and couture.

MaryMe-JimmyPaul SS2014 Amsterdam Fashion Week

We have to miss Bas Kosters’ spectacle fashion shows this season, but tonight’s MaryMe-JimmyPaul collection was a nice surprising alternative. The designers presented an interactive show as the closing act of this Amsterdam Fashion Week opening night. Sponsored by Vodafone so phones were included in the interactive part. The audience was able to live vote for the looks while they were going down the runway. Doll-like dressed up models with pastel shades wigs and heavy make-up playfully walked the catwalk. They were dressed to the extreme sporting high heels, knee high boots, printed suits and spectacular fluffy/fur-like dresses and tops. With every look the outfits became more colorful, platform shoes got higher and the audience wilder. After the last look; the most hated and most loved models re-appeared. The finale for sure put a smile on everyone’s face when ‘ the designers’ were brought on stage and turned out to be two very tanned, strong bodybuilders in bikini. Bas Kosters too gave his sign of approval by enthusiastically applauding from the front row. What a spectacle; Amsterdam Fashion Week is officially started now!

Getting ready for Amsterdam Fashion Week 19th Edition

The 19th edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week will kick off coming week-end with Amsterdam Fashion Weekend and THE summerparty to be: Celebrate. These fashion-crazy days are filled with pop-up catwalkshows, a fashion-bazaar and all kinds of fashion-related activities in the Fashion- and Museum-quarter of Amsterdam. This event will be followed by five days of catwalkshows and Team Peter Stigter is warming up to bring you the best pictures and reviews of this event. You want to join the crowd? This is your chance: for the first time exclusive entry-tickets for the shows will be for sale.

From july 12th until 16th the AFW will build its venue in the Westerpark and transform the enormous Gashouder into a fashion-theatre where young talents and well known designers will show their spring summer 2014 collections. Supertrash will unveil their first collection for children – ST Girls – and menswear-designer Francisco van Benthum will make his return to the catwalk.
Of course more familiar names will be there too like Marga Weimans, Tony Cohen, SIS by Spijkers en Spijkers and Claes Iversen. And everybody is looking forward to the closing-show: Lichting 2013, with the most talented fashion-graduates of this year.

The Frontrow Club
For the first time non-professional fashionlovers can attend a fashion-show. AFW has a limited amount of tickets for shows held at july 13, 14, 15 and 16. They will be sold online for a reduced price and are exclusively for members of The Frontrow Club. This club is an online community related to AFW and everybody can join the club, the membership is for free. And with the membership comes all kinds of privileges.
More than 3000 people already joined the club and they can experience live what a fashion-show is like (meet all the editors of Vogue, Elle and Glamour, see the photographers in action, watch the celebs frontrow) . A tickets means a seat near the big catwalk in the Gashouder where they can watch the show of Tony Cohen or a seat in the more intimate space of the Transformatorhuis to see the new collection of Cold Method.
For most shows there availability is limited, but for the show of 2LOVETONYCOHEN at Sunday july 14th the availability of tickets is much bigger. The special Frontrow Club -fee per ticket is 35 euro, and there’s a five euro discount for visitors who buy two tickets for different shows held the same day. And you can experience a lot of fashion for that price!

All information about different events during Amsterdam Fashion Week you will find at the official  site of AFW

For The Frontrow Club and buying tickets, click here

See you there!

 

About Peter Stigter (AFW13)

During Amsterdam Fashion Week we will be following someone from the crew every day.

The third day we followed Peter Stigter, fashion photographer and official photographer of the Amsterdam Fashion Week.

About Dieter de Cock (AFW13)

During Amsterdam Fashion Week we will be following someone from the crew every day.

The second day we followed Dieter de Cock, head designer for Cold Method.

Streetfashion Amsterdam Fashion Week FW2013 Day 1

What are you wearing during the fashionweeks? Your Prada-shoes, your latest Raf Simons-sweater or that vintage Gucci? Maybe we’ll spot you in Paris, Milan, New York or Amsterdam. During the fashionweeks we refresh our streetwear posts regularly. We don’t judge, we’re not the fashion-police, we just enjoy fashion and your own personal style. Next stop: Amsterdam Fashion Week fall/winter 2013.

 

About Carlo Wijnands (AFW13)

During Amsterdam Fashion Week we will be following someone from the crew every day.

The first day we followed Carlo Wijnands, programme director of AFW.

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