After visiting Sensation 4 weeks ago ( Sensation is a huge house-party in Holland were all the people dress up in something white), the Digitaliastas screamed: never wear white on white! But after seeing the show of Individuals we are a little les negative. The young students of the Amsterdam Fashion Institute proved that white can be a very interesting and multifunctional color.
Fourteen young talents from seven different Dutch fashion academies showed their graduation collections at the Amsterdam Fashion Week during the Lichting 2009 show sponsored by G-star. The best talent won a price of 10.000 euros and a ticket to New York Fashion Week. Also two famous bloggers were part of the jury: Susanna Lau from Stylebubble and Garance Dore (more about them later on). The winner of the show was Ann Boogaerts. She created a bold collection with a classic but yet modern touch, completely inspired by the old Queen of Belgian: Queen Fabiola.
I almost missed the show of LEW. It was raining while I was riding on my bike, so I took a train, but it was very delayed…
Our old time favorite Daryl van Wouw showed his latest collection Hypercube at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam…
Blue Blood is one of the many successful Dutch jeans labels. Their trousers are amazing, but most of the time their catwalk shows are a little bot boring. But not this year….With new designer Erik Frenken ( ex-designer of Viktor&Rolf menswear) the brand got a great and necessary boost!
The originally L.A. Brand Supertrash showed in Amsterdam during Fashion Week. Thanks to the Dutch Oclay Gulsen, the sophisticated clothes of Supertrash are a huge hit in the Benelux. We saw a very wearable and soft collection with silk jumpsuits, little shorts, Lila leather jackets with ruches and colorful tunics. With ex-supermodel Janice Dickinson front-row! The rumor has it, she got 50.000 euro’s to show her face!
Yesterday the Dutch fashionpress got a sneak preview of the new group Benelux Next Topmodels. Twenty girls make their first steps on the catwalk at the end of the Daryl van Wouw show! They were a little nervous, but at the end of the runway they jumped, smiled and hugged. They did it! In front of a very mundane audience. Wooww, I saw my book Killerheels&Modedromen coming alive.
Ex-supermodel Janice Dickinson was in Amsterdam to visit the Supertrash show earlier this night. We spotted her front-row, but also backstage. It was so much fun watching her. She is like a plastic doll, well… a crazy one. We took some snapshot of miss Plastic Fantastic and we overheard her opinion about the show and the Dutch models.
We love the watches of Triwa by Tritoni and we also have a little crush (sssst) on Dutch designer Daryl van Wouw…So put them together and you’ll get a fabulous product! These colorful watches are the result of a collaboration between the designer and the Swedish Brand.
