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Experiment with Parabolas by Johannes Offerhaus

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Experiment with Parabolas by Johannes Offerhaus

Designer Johannes Offerhaus presented his ‘Experiment with Parabolas’ yesterday at Studio 80 in Amsterdam. Offerhaus spent a year creating this overwhelming collection-show-performance In which fashion and kinetics collide. ‘Experiment with Parabolas’ was (partly) funded by the Frans Molenaar Fashion Award which Johannes Offerhaus won last year, in 2016, the year he graduated at the fashion department of @ArtEZHogeschool Arnhem

Experiment with Parabolas by Johannes Offerhaus

(image credits/via ArtEZ Fashion Design Arnhem)

UCWHY Fashion Design from Belgium Presented at Cristofori in Amsterdam

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UCWHY Fashion Design from Belgium at Cristofori in Amsterdam

The fashion label UCWHY presented it’s second collection yesterday (Sept 5th) at Cristofori in Amsterdam. Just as the presentation in Antwerp, where the brand is based, the venue was filled with flowers. Artistic Director Wim Bruynooghe completed a casual, or relaxed, ànd festive collection. Yes you’ve read it correctly: these opposite styles come together very well in the Spring-Summer ’18 collection by UCWHY! The brand choose to work with high-end fabrics in a daring and flashy colorscheme. Also nice to know: the collections are produced in Europe.

UCWHY Spring-Summer 2018
UCWHY Spring-Summer 2018
UCWHY Spring-Summer 2018
UCWHY Spring-Summer 2018

UCWHY was founded by Anne Chapelle (founder and CEO of BVBA 32, the parent company of well-known Belgian brands Ann Demeulmeester and Haider Ackermann. UCWHY will be sold at Menage à Trois in Amsterdam


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MBFWA Exhibitions and Performances

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MBFWA Exhibitions and Performances

Many, many exhibitions and performances were to be seen at the 24th edition of the fashion week held in Amsterdam (and we’re not including the “off-schedule” program)

Barbara Langedijk x Jochem Esser x Lisette Ros.
Maison the Faux / The Future Generation
Maison the Faux / The Future Generation
Maison the Faux / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / “The Future Generation”
The “Brave New Monday Hotel” / The Future Generation
“The Future Generation”, The “Brave New Monday Hotel”
“The Future Generation”, Painted Series
The Future Generation/ at the Westerliefde venue
The Future Generation/ at the Westerliefde venue

1-Fashion exhibition: Dutch Heritage (more about that here on this blog). 2-Confidential: Jazz Kuipers. 3-Antoine Peters x Oscar Verpoort. 4-Barbara Langendijk x Jochem Esser x Lisette Ros. 5-“The Future Generation” platform: (second edition; during the full closing day, so no shows on monday) in which young designers can showcase their work in any form they want to express themselves in; performances, installations, video’s well, anything but a fashion show (maybe they can, but they didn’t) “The Future Generation” program is divided into parts; -“The “Brave New Monday Hotel” a mock hallway with rooms of circa 3×4 meters in the transformatorhuis, with rooms for Zyanya Keizer, Camiel Fortgens, Anneloes van Osselaer, Karin Vlug, Jasna Rokegem, Cry Havoc Foudation, Sophie Hardeman and Martijn Nekoui -Closeby but not in the “Brave New Monday Hotel” installations by the German duo Blond & Bieber (a Berlin-based design studio which develops concepts and processes at the border between textile and product design since 2013) and –Painted Series (aren’t they more “previous or this generation” than “future generation”?) were on exhibit, –Maison the Faux held a pefrormance in the Gashouder, the main and largest venue at the Dutch Fashion Week. –Talkshows were hosted by Aynouk Tan.

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MBFWA Resolver by Jef Montes

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MBFWA Resolver by Jef Montes

On day two (1/15/2016) of MercedezBenzFashionWeekAmsterdam Mimi Berlin Blogger Team went to see the presentation of the newest collection by, the talented young designer, Jef Montes named “Resolver”. Montes’ work, a dress from his previous collection “Velero”, can be seen allover Amsterdam Fashion Week, it features the MBFWA posters, banners etc. (see the making of this image here on this blog)

AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016. PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016. PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016. PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016. PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016/ PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
BACKSTAGE AT AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
BACKSTAGE AT AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK FALL 2016PHOTO © 2016 TEAM PETER STIGTER FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH CREDITS
Dress designed by Jef Montes on the banner programme website MBFWA

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Das Leben am Haverkamp

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Das Leben am Haverkamp

On the last day of the Amsterdam Fashion Week a time slot was reserved for upcoming Dutch fashion talent. The so called Future Generation program presented 7 designers. A pleasant surprise at the exhibition space for us was GEFELICIFASHION, a celebration of conventions by Das Leben am Haverkamp, a collective of 4 fashion designers (Anouk van Klaveren, Christa van der Meer, Dewi Bekker and Gino Anthonisse) based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

GEFELICIFASHION, a celebration of conventions by Das Leben am Haverkamp at Amsterdam Fashion Week 2015 (photo Mimi Berlin)
GEFELICIFASHION, a celebration of conventions by Das Leben am Haverkamp at Amsterdam Fashion Week 2015 (photo Mimi Berlin)
PREVIEW FASHION WEEK. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Das Leben am Haverkamp. (photo courtesy of DLaH)
Masquerade time, installation, 2015 at Stroom Gallery The Hague (photo courtesy of DLaH)
Gino Anthonisse, Edel Achtbaar, Illustration for collection 2015
Dewi Bekker; ‘I WOULD LIKE TO DRINK BEER HIGH AMONG THE AESIR’ (photography-by-Henri-Verhoef-and-Imke-Ligthart)
Christa van de -Meer, IMINJUNJU, graduation project (2013) (photo-Lisandro-Suriel_model-Panjua-Sarour_styling-Lydiëne-Thomas)
CHRISTA VAN DER MEER©, Because-he made her smile. A series of portraits painted on silk that were made by Christa van der Meer during a performance at BACK STAGE ON STAGE during Salone del Mobile, Milano 2014.
Anouk van Klaveren, PROJECT 000 002 (section) – Bubble Boy, 2013 (Photo-by-Rik-Versteeg)
Anouk van Klaveren, PROJECT 000 002 (section) Parasitic Twin Jumper Photography: Wim Klaassen
Anouk van Klaveren has been collecting hair of the audience at Salone del mobile 2014 to be used as raw material in PROJECT 000 004 – Hypertrichosis Bow Tie 2.0. Check out the whole collection at
Anouk van Klaveren; hair-of-beatrice-rossetti-000140
An early collaboration by Gino Anthonisse and Christa van der Meer in the beginning of 2014, collaged on Gino’s “Lost Wonder” collection. Published in Belgian magazine: Kwintessens 2014-2

Next to their collective work as Das Leben am Haverkamp, the four members of this group all have their own label as well. Since DLaH is also about collaboration we’d like to mention some Dutch photographers they chose to work with; Henri Verhoef, Imke Ligthart, Rik Versteeg and Lisandro Suriel, we feel their input reinforces the (fashion) vision of DLaH, good choice! We also love the fact that DLaH has a broader vision on fashion, reaching beyond clothes. It’s nice that they don’t over-stuff garments with ideas and visions; they have installations, performances and other means to do that. On the personal side; we, at Mimi Berlin, just like the aesthetics Das Leben am Haverkamp bring on.
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