Maison The Faux Presents: Maison Pour Maison at AFWStudio 2019

Posted on 09/03/2019 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Amsterdam Fashion Week Studio 2019

AFWStudio

“Friday March 8, 2019, Amsterdam Fashion Week, AFWStudio.
The Arnhem based fashionable collective ‘Maison The Faux’ (a creative studio posing as a grand couture fashion house) presented ‘Maison Pour Maison’, “a multidisciplinary performance exploring all the facets of a home/maison”, in particular the bedroom and bedroom-behavior.

Mimi Berlin Blogger Team attended ‘Maison pour Maison’ at the Compagnie-theatre in the city-center of Amsterdam. If you missed this show make sure to read on, if you can’t be bothered: that’s okay. Next stop for this perfomance will be in Tokio, it’s a second chance to see the show live, for yourself.

AFWstudio Maison The Faux Presents Maison pur Maison

Maison The Faux Presents Maison pur Maison

Maison pour Maison

‘Maison Pour Maison’ is Maison The Faux’s interpretation of leisure wear. Home-wear in it’s most ultimate and elegant form, according to designers Joris Suk and Tessa de Boer. The collection consists of two-piece pyjama’s, bedroom gowns, negligee sets and a selection of robes combined with sleeping hats, sweaters and t-shirts. Various interior products were used as not-your-average styling devices. Pillows, duvets, sleep masks and even mattresses had a main part in the presentation.

Mimi Berlin’s thoughts during the performance

‘Maison Pour Maison’ the fashion-performance, is a story with a proper begining and ending. Starting out very calm, with people moving in slow motion on 2 separate twin-size beds, surrounded by curtains.

In our minds Marie-Antoinette popped up, because of the printed French doors on the curtains, also because of the fact we were watching a bed-scene.

Slowly but surely the tempo becomes more fast, going on into exaltation or hysteria, . The transparent and frilly outfits and the repetive movements of the models made clear this story aslo has to do with sex and/or erotica. During the middle part of the show the vibe becomes less friendly. The scene transforms into a hospital or even an asylum. The outfits adapted perfectly to this shift in atmosphere.

“There’s no place like MAISON.”
“a House is made of Bricks and Beams, a MAISON is made of Hopes and Dreams”
maisonthefaux.com

News from Maison The Faux

“The company of MAISON the FAUX is also subject to renovation: MAISON the FAUX is expanding their multidisciplinary ways. The creative studio is no longer accepting whole sale orders and is increasingly focusing on their work as a creative design studio (art-direction, spatial design, costume design etc.) and e-commerce.
MAISON the FAUX will present “MAISON pour MAISON” during Tokyo Fashion Week, introducing various home products as an addition to the “MAISON pour MAISON” presentation at Amsterdam Fashion Week.” (maisonthefaux.com)

More Maison the Faux stories here on this blog,

Dutch Fashion Design Prizes 2018

Posted on 08/07/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Dutch Fashion Design Prizes 2018

It’s that season of the year again! It’s raining (fashion) design prizes in The Netherlands! There are many winners, so we will only mention the fashion designers (just because we can). Bas Kosters was awarded with the annual ‘Fashion Stipend’ by the Prins (Prince) Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Culturefund). Johannes Offerhaus, Maison the Faux, Scheuller de Waal and Lisa Konno were the fashion designers amongst the 24 winners of the ‘Dutch Design Awards 2018’

Congratulations to you all!

Bas Kosters/modestipendiu m 2018 (credits Marc Deurlo)

Experiment with Parabolas by Johannes Offerhaus

Schueller de Waal; Winding stairs

Young Talents: Lisa Konno, Olivier van Herpt and Manon van Hoeckelat Dutch Design Award Night.

Closing Show at Amsterdam Fashion Week: Maison The Faux

fauxmosapien (the evolution) | maison the faux

(images by Mimi Berlin and via baskosters.com / www.dutchdesignawards.nl)

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

Thanks to a gift from an anonymous patron, the ‘Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium‘
of €50,000 is awarded annually. Continue reading →

ArtEZ Arnhem Fashion Shows 60th Edition 2018

Posted on 08/06/2018 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

At the Arnhem Fashion Shows 2018

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. ArtEZ Arnhem Fashion Shows 60th Edition 2018

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.

Emma Wessel, Facefacade (Masters Degree))

Henriette Zimmerman, Intervention (Masters Degree)

ArtEZ Arnhem Fashion Shows 60th Edition 2018

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

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

Alicia Minnard, Noeskwam; A model for a qualitative society

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

Guusje de Bruin, Guus. Notice the jeans!

Mehdi Mashayekhi, Choub

Sarah Kerbosch, And take the Right and the Purple frog

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’

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 →

Closing Show at Amsterdam Fashionweek by Maison The Faux

Posted on 18/07/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Closing Show at Amsterdam Fashionweek by Maison The Faux: FAUXmosapien

Maison The Faux are Tessa de Boer and Joris Suk, they are based in The Netherlands. (read more about MtF Here on this blog) Let us begin by describing the show venue at the Westergasfabriek. It was filled with 12, neatly lined up, Ergoline Prestige1600 tanning machines. If you didn’t know these were sunbeds you could easily imagine yourself being in the hibernation room of a spaceship traveling in time (think Aliën or A Space Odyssey for example) Anyways: it all looked great! Placed at the beginning of the catwalk, in front of the huge movie screen, was a centered ‘check-in desk’ with an entertaining performance by 3 hostesses. All this looked like something Mr. Lagerfeld could come up with for a Chanel Show…. Okay; enough about the inspiration/dreamed-up world Maison the Faux shared with us, the audience, after all this was a fashion show. The collection was divers within it’s design-format: it included extreme looks (so-called ‘experimental’) with a follow up on more wearable designs (so-called ‘commercial’) In our opinion covering both qualities in one collection is an intelligent and strong way of communicating with the audience. It helps you to understand (unconsciously or not) why you need that striped dress (and the photographed outfits below). Without kidding; communicating by means of fashion isn’t an easy thing to accomplish, but SO nice when it happens! Don’t worry if you missed this show; there will be a second chance to see it at New York Fashion Week in September.

fauxmosapien (the evolution) | maison the faux

Maison the Faux is Tessa de Boer

Maison the Faux is Joris Suk

photocredits; team peter stigter

(Maison the Faux Finale XOXOMIMIBERLINMMXVII <3 WE KINDLY LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL <3 ) Continue reading →

MBFWA Exhibitions and Performances

Posted on 19/01/2016 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

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)

Jazz Kuipers, Antoine Peters x Oscar Verpoort

Barbara Langedijk x Jochem Esser x Lisette Ros.

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 Future Generation”, The “Brave New Monday Hotel”

“The Future Generation”, Painted Series

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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Maison the Faux at Amsterdam Fashion Week

Posted on 16/07/2014 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Maison the Faux at Amsterdam Fashion Week. Maison the Faux is a fairly new label which showed for the second time at Amsterdam Fashion Week, they presented their newest collection “Make a U-turn if possible” for Spring 2015 at the Transformatorhuis, the smallest catwalk at Amsterdam Fashion Week. It’s hard to describe this show, we won’t even try. Luckily we made a short movie so you can see and hear for yourself. Important part of this show were the musical performers; Steal Me, three ladies with great voices and the same amount of hysterical power as the collection and the setting of the show at the Transformatorhuis.

Designers Joris Suk and Hans Hutting presented a romantic collection with a nineties-hippie-rave vibe to it (to put it in a nutshell). Lingerie-inspired shapes and fabrics with romantic touches, such as for example chrochet and ostrich leather (in violet) passed us by. Combined with more down-to-earth prints (made with fashion illustrations) and sturdy jeans which were soft, over-sized, bell bottomed, bleached, torn and ripped to complete the total look. (We saw these jeans at their first show last season; maybe they are a Maison the Faux “Basic”?), With all garments being detailed to the bone there was a lot to see! Maison the Faux has many ideas and we love the fact that they want to share them with us in just one show (styled by Ruud van der Peijl). But, more importantly, they managed well to mould all these ideas into one collection. In our opinion they showed the full package, including ravishing jewelry and bags.