Fashion at Dutch Design Week 2018 Modebelofte presents Shape Shifters

Posted on 20/10/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Modebelofte presents Shape Shifters

Modebelofte is present again this year at the Dutch Design Week (DDW). Their fashion exhibition is titled Shape Shifters. Mimi Berlin Blogger Team visited the preview yesterday and made 2 video’s for you. Not too many so there is something left to discover for yourself. Oh, and by the way: Modebelofte has changed its name into New Order of Fashion. Fashion Design at Dutch Design Week 2018 Modebelofte presents Shape Shifters

The fashion exhibition

The fashion exhibition ‘Shape Shifters’ by Modebelofte / New Order of Fashion opened yesterday with a preview. Not everything was finished yet, so we had to wait a little while for the crew to finish, wow, the stress of it all!

Shape Shifters can be seen from October 20 through 28 in the ‘Warehouse of Innovation’ (that’s the former V&D department store building in a highstreet of Eindhoven.) as part of the Dutch Design Week 2018.

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Fashion Design at the DDW17

Posted on 25/10/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Fashion Design at the DDW17

Modebelofte; at the former V&D Department store

Kyra Goody at Modebelofte; at the former V&D Department store

Resort 2018 by FROWIJN & SCHUURMAN at the VDMA building

at the VDMA building

If you like fashion design, the following places at the Dutch Design Week of 2017 may be of interest to you: Continue reading →

Dots at the Kazerne during the Dutch Design Week 2017

Posted on 24/10/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Dots at the Kazerne during the Dutch Design Week 2017

Mimi Blogger Team visited the Kazerne during the Dutch Designweek #DDW17 and noticed a lot of round shapes, dots and circles. Even the shop entrance was decorated with big, neon dots; that’s the work of Vollaerszwart, citydressers, they re-produced ‘Let’s Stick Together’ which they made in 2006 for ‘The World of Witte de With’ festival in Rotterdam.

Kazerne Shop entrance

city dressing, the book, by Vollaerszwart available at the Kazerne shop.

Maarten Baas at the Kazerne

Bertjan Pot at the Kazerne

Sunbrella at the Kazerne

Soyoon Kim, Stained Plastic at the Kazerne

Tim Kerp at the Kazerne

Forbo at the Kazerne

Studio Minale Maeda at De Kazerne

We also encountered some other shapes and forms at the Kazerne premises ofcourse, but that’s really beside the point of this post. (pun intended, duh!) We will tell you in a nutshell what’s to be seen at the Kazerne. The main event: the impressive installation of the 101 chair by Maarten Baas x Lensvelt, including the introduction of the stackable version of the same chair: it has different legs and looks good! We posted earlier about ‘The Anti-Efficients’ exhibition at the Kazerne: read that post HERE. We’d also like to mention that new work by artist Peter Zwaan is on show. For the complete list of exhibitions and presentations please click the address-link below.
Kazerne Paradijslaan 2-8 Eindhoven

Dutch Design Week Eindhoven is held from October 21/29 2017.
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Dutch Design Week 2017: The Anti-Efficients

Posted on 24/10/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Dutch Design Week 2017: The Anti-Efficients

In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. This year: 2017, it is held from 21-29 October.
Mimi Berlin Blogger Team visited and reports to you; our readers. Let us start with our favorite presentation so far: The group exhibition “The Anti-Efficients”, tucked away in one of the rooms of the small buildings at the Kazerne complex in Eindhoven. Designers Sejoon Kim, Seungbin Yang, Hyunjee Jung, Sooji Lee are the ‘The Anti-Efficients’.

Sewaji, Cute.

Sewaji, Cute.

Sooji Lee

Seungbin Yang

Sewaji is the result of the collaboration between Sejoon Kim and Hyunjee Jung. They present work under the tiltle ‘Cute. anthropomorphization and thingification’. Kim and Jung show their own interpertaiton of cuteness, they also imitate each others ‘cuteness’. The sculptures are based on the graduation thesis of Sejoon Kim: Cute, かわいい, 귀여워, ” which is about ‘cute culture’ and starts from the question of why he, as a Korean (broadly East Asian), is more drawn to cute things than Europeans are. We, at Mimi Berlin, find that to be a very interesting topic, since we, being European, are always drawn towards cute things; such as the Sewaji collaboration. (we need to read that research document!) Continue reading →

Maarten Baas Makes Time at Dutch Design Week 2016

Posted on 01/11/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Maarten Baas Makes Time at Dutch Design Week 2016

Mimi Berlin Blogger team visited ‘Maarten Baas Makes Time’; an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by Dutch designer Maarten Baas, designed by Baas himself together with theatre director Joris van Midde, at the Dutch Design Week of 2016. Binding factor of this exhibition was, of course; Time and Dutch design.

timeline of 15 chairs, designed by Maarten Baas

new work by Maarten Baas

Jaap van Bergen

’12 times’: spending time knitting with 2 vases by RenS on the mantlepiece

’12 times’: Sweeper’s clock by Maarten Baas

Fleeting by Gijs van Bon

Dining with Maarten Baas in Vlisco incorporated tablesettings with Chefcook Sergio Herman

Situated at the entrance of the former VDMA Garage was a timeline of 15 chairs, designed by Maarten Baas, opposite of Maarten Baas’ newest work. The next space was filled with work by different artists like the ‘Minuted‘ installation by Gijs van Bon and Strandbeest, one of the evolutionairy animals by Theo Jansen, surrounded by a grid on the floor made with white sand named ‘Fossil Field’ by Iris van Herpen.

Next we passed musician Joost van Dijk playing the cello together with beats of time. The music was wonderful by itself but also perfect as a restful ‘backdrop’ for the next surprise of the ‘Maarten Baas Makes Time’ exhibition:

‘12 Times‘. Twelve wooden booths, all with a little window and a poem by Ingmar Heytze pinned to the side, placed in a circle. Inside the booths were situations to be seen in a mix of tableaux vivants, performances and/or design objects. For instance: a women was Continue reading →

Adaptive Travelers: Stairs to a Non-Existent Fourth Floor

Posted on 31/10/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Adaptive Travelers: Stairs to a Non-Existent Fourth Floor

We, Mimi Blogger Team, visited the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
Being the fashion-angels that we are; we went straight to the fashion-exhibition named ‘Adaptive Travelers‘ (more on that HERE) The exhibition, by Modebelofte 2016, was held at the top floor of the Dutch luxury department store “De Bijenkorf” (‘The Beehive’ in Dutch).

De Bijenkorf in Eindhoven

Fashion Exhibition ‘Adaptive Travelers’ by Modebelofte 2016

But first we had to adapt ourselves to the intricate entrance route. Instead of just taking the store elevator (or escalator for that matter) we had to walk 3 flights of stairs, which are normally only used by employees, to the actual exhibition. After we exited the exhibition, via a parcours set on the roof (fun!), we saw the mysterious staircase leading to nowhere!!!

De Bijenkorf rooftop with parcours set by ‘modebelofte2016’ Notice the C&A logo. C&A is the most cheap clothing company in the Netherlands…

De Bijenkorf facade from the inside

Stairs leadinf to nowhere

image bijenkorf seen from above

We find such a staircase very intruiging, this is the first time we’ve seen such an unfinished build in the Netherlands (which is a mini country with many, very strict rules). In 1960s ‘De Bijenkorf’ store only needed 3 stories, but urban planning was made for 4 stories. From the outside the fabulous building looks much taller than it actually is: the fourth floor is merely a facade. But the plans remain in the form of the stairs leading to nowhere! (Thahanks!! D. Martijn Oostra for this story)

The façade of the Dutch Departmentstore ‘De Bijenkorf” is designed by Giò Ponti (in cooperation withTheo Boosten, Frans Gaast and Mario Negri 1965/1968). Continue reading →