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Hacked Store at the Temporary Fashion Museum

Alexander van Slobbe from the Hacked Store

Signage and graphic interventions by Experimental Jetset

Van Slobbe Van Benthum label and logo designed by Vanessa van Dam

Second Floor; The Hacked Store in black, white and grey

The garments by label Van Slobbe Van Benthum were launched earlier, in June 2015, as Hacked 1.0, in a pop-up (or hacked) store at Hotel Droog in Amsterdam.

During the, previously opened Temporary Fashion exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Dutch fashion designers Alexander van Slobbe and Francisco van Benthum again “hacked” (are on exhibit) a space; the second floor of the museum. The duo created the Hacked Store to explain and comment on the fashion industry and to explore a new way to position themselves and fashion designers in general, in this fast, commercial industry. The base of the Van Slobbe Van Benthum collection is the over-production of garments. They give new life to these “left-overs” (T-Shirts, bags etc.) by altering them. The VSVB designs, for men and women, can be bought at the “Hacked Store” as well. If you are a fan of these designers we suggest you go hop hop hop to the Hacked Shop.

Please read the photographed texts above, it contains more specific information than our nut-shell story does.

The Temporary Fashion Museum

All you ever wanted to know about fashion; it’s ins and outs. International recent pret-a-porter, how it feels to wear high heels, collecting and buying (vintage) couture, history; how Dutch people handled fashion, d.i.y., recycling, production processes and knowledge on waste produced in the fashion industry, the making of fashion icons and more background information trough interviews, movies, tours and workshops. The exhibition is partly permanent; view the Temporary Fashion Museum site for changes and information. Open from September 13, 2015 through May 8, 2016 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

The Now; pret-a-porter for this season. By Jop van Bennekom and Penny Martin

Interior design with foam in black and pink

Collected By….The Couture (archives)Collection of Eva Maria Hatsckek

Vintage fashion design collected by Ferry van der Nat (also for sale)

A Speculative history of Dutch fashion. By Guus Beumer, Georgette Koning and Francisco van Benthem

A Speculative history of Dutch fashion: the re-creation of 13 toiles are “simoulages”, since they are simulations of moulages. Interpretations and not straight copies of originals by Michiel Keuper