Dylan Westerweel is the winner of Lichting 2019. That’s the annual fashion contest for freshly graduated Dutch fashion design students. Westerweel graduated with honors at the ArtEZ Arnhem fashion design department. He showed his work, together with 13 other participants from schools allover The Netherlands, at De Nieuwe Kerk. The Nieuwe Kerk (tr; New Church) is a wonderful venue used as catwalk during the Amsterdam Fashion Week. Since we cover this fashion contest each year we suggest you click here to get to know more about Lichting.
At the 2019 Fashion Show of ArtEZ Arnhem, during the presentation of Birgit Steinbusch‘ collection ‘Abdominoplasty’, we really had to think of one of our all-time favorite images by Irving Penn; could not get it out of our mind. Penn’s photo ‘foot care’ was made in 1990 for Vogue Magazine.
Okay, we reminded ourselves once again that what we vizualie in our minds, always works in real life as well! Just that, that’s it for today. xoxo Mimi Berlin
Abdominoplasty
Abdominoplasty or “tummy tuck” is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen thinner and more firm. The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. This type of surgery is usually sought by patients with loose or sagging tissues after pregnancy or major weight loss.
It’s that time of the year again: Collectie Arnhem 2019 is launched. Mimi Berlin Blogger Team went to see the fashion show at Loods 6 in the capital city of The Netherlands; Amsterdam. The images made for the 21st edition of Collectie Arnhem are promising already! We placed them below, what do you think? Nice, n’est pas! The show itself lived up to that promise for sure.
Photography: Louise Te Poele Hair and Make-up: Dennis Krabben Models: Dorien van Linge, Manon Romeijn, Danny Choi
Lights, Music and Action
Tthe concrete hallway of Loods 6 was lit in lilac and 4 huge ventilators were placed in the middle. There were no chairs to be found, only black plastic square packages of, what we think was hay; for V.I.P’s to sit on. The ventilators were slowly rolled to the back of the runway and then it was time for: Lights, Music and Action. The rather graphic image of the back-lighted ventilators was maintained during the show; highlighting the silhouettes of the designs in full force black, like they should be. The (mostly) geometrical silhouettes had in common that they all were fashionably elongated (which is always a joy to the eye). To illustrate the effect it had on us, at Mimi Berlin: at one point KKK outfits, a Grobbebol and a Pierrot came to mind at the same time. Fun!
See the MimiMovies production below to get the image with that text!
Concept and Design
As for the story behind the concept and designs we suggest you read the folder, it’s very accurate and we couldn’t desribe it better ourselves. That seems lazy, but it is not. You must know that the average texts about fashion collections are an embellished, or even nonsensical, version of what you get to see. Not in this case, it is all the truth including the opening story. All 20 students and 3 tutors (Rens de waal, Lenn Cox and Dennis van der Broeck) spent a weekend together to create the footprint for the Unlock, Becoming Collectie Arnhem. And as always, we suggest you see the designs for yourself, that’s always the best way to get in the know! To read on, just click the first image below.
No worries if you missed the fashion show because you have a second chance to see all the creations made by the third year students at the annual ArtEZ graduation fashion show this summer in June. We aren’t sure if you get to feel the same magic in another space but, hey, getting a second chance is always nice.
Collectie Arnhem is a collective project in which third-year students of the Fashion Design bachelor at ArtEZ University of the Arts collaborate to develop, design and present a cohesive fashion collection. This project offers a laboratory-style environment where students research and explore diverse aspects of the process and the profession; questioning what fashion is and proposing what fashion can be. The project culminates in a fashion presentation to a professional audience, organized by the students themselves. Collectie Arnhem is made possible with the support of the ArtEZ University of the Arts and the Made in [Arnhem] campaign. Collectie Arnhem is initiated in 1999 by Alexander van Slobbe and Gisela Prager.
The fashion design students at ArtEZ Arnhem got to show their talent at the city theatre ‘Musis Sacrum‘. Featuring the collections of this year’s fashion graduates, 20 of them in total; 16 Bachelors and 4 Masters. Also including CollectieArnhem 2018, ànd work by the first- and second-year BA fashion students. We, Mimi Berlin Bloggerteam, (in particular Herr Kaldenbach) took (backstage) photo’s for y’all who could’t be there.
Graduating Students 16 + 4 = 20
Anna Bernal, Iris Baumbacht, Emmy Hermans, Nina Pen, Merrit Koek, Dennis Schreuder, Alicia Minnard, Douwe de Boer, Amarens Joustra, Amber Willemtzijn, Guusje de Bruin, Naomi Marcela, Mehdi Mashayekhi, Sarah Kerbosch, Jolijn Corporaal and Maria van Steenhoven: 16 BA Students. Emma Wessel, Henriette Zimmerma, Gala Borovic and Manon Gondek: 4 MA students.
Fashion show reviews including images (Anna Bernal, Billy at ArtEZ Arnhem)
Anna Bernal, Billy
Iris Bambacht, Have you ever been in Hellouw
Emmy Hermans, No pants allowed inside the house
Emmy Hermans, No pants allowed inside the house
Naomi Marcela, Cela
Naomi Marcela, Cela
Nina Pen, Selfportrait. I have to convince myself that I am
Jolijn Corporaal, Out of the Grey
Merrit Koek, .nl
Dennis Schreuder, Je Moeder
Dennis Schreuder, Je Moeder
Dennis Schreuder, Je Moeder
Alicia Minnard, Noeskwam; A model for a qualitative society
Douwe de Boer, The roundness of a square
Douwe de Boer, The roundness of a square
Gala Borovic, The base (Masters Degree)
Manon Gondek (Masters Degree)
Amarens Joustra, We don’t walk in straight lines.
Amarens Joustra/Nina Pen
video’s by Robert Fox
Amber Willemtzijn, Favorite worst nightmare
Amber Willemtzijn, Favorite worst nightmare
Amber Willemtzijn, Favorite worst nightmare
Guusje de Bruin, Guus. Notice the jeans!
Mehdi Mashayekhi, Choub
Sarah Kerbosch, And take the Right and the Purple frog
Sarah Kerbosch, And take the Right and the Purple frog
Maria van Steenhoven, [F24-NOP]
Maria van Steenhoven, [F24-NOP]
Projects by 1 + 2 + 3th year students
The Project ‘Biuqs’ designed by the first year students, executed in neon orange and (off)white only, opened the show. Second year students worked within the team ‘Fashion Galore’ presenting the results in an over-the-top, make-believe fashion-shoot. And the annual CollectieArnhem showed the 2018 version of the project for the second time this year.
First year students. Project ‘Biuqs’
First year students. Project ‘Biuqs’
First year students. Project ‘Biuqs’
First year students. Project ‘Biuqs’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Second Year Students Project ‘Luxury Galore’
Third Year students. Project ‘CollectieArnhem 2018’
Third Year students. Project ‘CollectieArnhem 2018’
(Images by JW Kaldenbach at the first and second show 7/06/18.
We did our best to figure out placing all the names at the correct collections….if we made a mistake please let us know! xoxo MIMI) Click HERE for MORE Images.
Anniversary 60 + 20 =
This was the 60th fashion show held by the fashion department at ArtEZArnhem (university of the arts). And the 20 year anniversary of the ‘CollectieArnhem’ project.
ArtEZArnhem certainly succeeded to turn this show into a small celebration! Continue reading →
Lichting 2017 Fashion Design Award goes to Lizzy Stuyfzand
Yesterday (7/14/2017), on the second day of Amsterdam Fashionweek (MBFWA) Mini Berlin Blogger Team went to see the Lichting show (the annual contest for 14 graduating Dutch fashion design students) Lizzy Stuyfzand was the winner of the Lichting Award, for most promising talent, which is €10,000! Congratulations!! Ms Stuyfzand graduated last month at ArtEZ Arnhem with her menswear collection “Call me magpie” (see more about that here on this blog)
Lizzy Stuyfzand and her models. Congratulations!
Finale at the Lichting show
Participants/voting at lichting show (image via mini berlin’s insta)
CATWALK AMSTERDAM FASHIONWEEK SS18 (credits:team peter stigter)
LICHTING 2017 LIZZY STUYFZAND CATWALK AMSTERDAM (credits:team peter stigter)FASHIONWEEK SS18
LICHTING 2017 SARAH BRUYLAND CATWALK (credits:team peter stigter)AMSTERDAM FASHIONWEEK SS18
The second award, €3000; is ‘The Audience’s Favorite’ went to Sarah Bruylant of AMFI. The students participated to this lovely show were: Roos Boshart, Rachael Cheong, Annebel de Kok, Miro Hämäläinen, Karlijn Krijger and Ninamounah Langestraat (read more about them here lichting.nl) The winners truly deserved the prices they got, but we also rooted for Ninamounah Langestraat (Gerrit Rietveld Academy) her part of the Lichting show really stood out to us because of it’s very strong personality. Congratulations to all students; we wish you the best in your careers! xoxo Mimi
