By Franciscus

passant, souviens-toi / passer-by, remember

“i can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if i look up into the heavens, i think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.”
(anne frank, july 15th 1944)

it’s not to provoke, but to evoke: emotion, remembrance and consciousness.
it’s because as time passes, the shock seems to subside.
it’s because of the current right wing political activity in western europe.
it’s because a group’s actions should never be mistaken for an individual’s actions.
it’s because this is the darkest chapter of human history and it defies my understanding.
it’s because when I walk through old cities i see the scars embedded in the architecture, i see historic buildings where curtains were shut or secret doors opened.
it’s because I felt the need to say something, to try to comprehend, to remind this generation of its past.
it’s to create certain awareness of what our generation does with this heritage, it’s because i wanted to create a monument; one you can wear, to remind yourself and those around you.

Stills taken from the film ‘Monument’ by Joost Vandebrug

Photography by Mylou Oord / Hair & Make-up by Luciënne Venner / Model Sarah B @ SW Agency

Rebecca Ward / Fearfull Symmetry

This is a photo shoot from my previous collection from last year 2009 and was shoot a few weeks ago with wolves.

The aesthetic motivations that animate symmetry and beauty through modern physics.

Symmetry has two meanings, the first an imprecise séance of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportion and balance. The second, a precise well defined concept of balance or patterned-self similarity that can be demonstrated or proved according to a formal system by, geometry through physics or otherwise.

My focus was on symmetry as the unifying aesthetic viewpoint through which mapping points, rotation, and reflection look at shape and form.

Photography Jasper Abels

‘A Collusion of Angles’

by Janneke Verhoeven _ _ _ ______________

SYNDROME DI STENDHAL

by JOSINE VISSER

The Stendhal Syndrome is a psychosomatic illness induced by viewing an overload of art, predominantly paintings

from the Renaissance period. Every year a small number of tourists are knocked out in Florence, overwhelmed by

the huge amount of art the city has to offer. The heavy symbolism found in Renaissance art confuses the viewer

and is translated in the brain into emotions which can lead to serious symptoms such as aphasia.

Fascinated by this syndrome, in which beautiful aesthetic images produce an extreme and opposite experience,

I play with strong contrasts, creating a new world in the in between no man’s land, which was the starting point

of my collection.
Elements and decorations from the Renaissance period are incorporated into this collection, brought to life into two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes by fabrics and constructions, using intense colors like cobalt blue, saturated moss green, faded purple and bruised orange; creating a similar confusing and dazzling atmosphere.

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Rebecca Ward / Physiognomy

Rebecca Ward / Physiognomy

Physiognomy is the art or science by which the characteristics of the

mind are discovered in the general configuration of the body. This

configuration of form and structure creates frictions between the

garment and the personality wearing it.

Elongated center, synched in waist; the abdominal form -

the smallness of your waist is an indication that the nourishing

part of your body is weak. To restrain the abdominal form: keep

your eyes open and mouth shut, eat little, sleep little, and take

your food in a concentrated form, and engage in an

occupation demanding thought and great activity’.*

Ideas are developed through the use of materials and

silhouette; the printed fabrics and shape created from folds, and

layers of built up fabric on areas around the body. This i

mplementation of research explores ideas of judging physical

form to recreate ideas of the persona, giving the option to cultivate

and improve ones body and mind or to restrain it.

* J.Simms M.D., A New Physiognomical Chart, 1873

Morphogenesis | Pauline van Dongen

‘HOBOHÈME HEMEL’ by ODA PAUSMA

‘HOBOHÈME HEMEL’  /  ‘HOBOHEMIAN HEAVEN’   roof over poetry and rebellion

Photography by WOUTER VANDENBRINK

Hair / Make-up by Ellen van Exter for Face Stockholm at Angelique Hoorn

Model Leontine Schijf at Fresh Model Management

Showroom Paris

Pictures by Peter Stigter

….please keep you voice down. The eight that are sleeping need their rest. The girls and boy are sleeping. They are very tired, very tired and need slumber form there late night. They were out last night parading in their finest attire. They were having such a great time out in their beautiful clothes that they lost track of the time.You are free to look in their closets to see the clothing that they had such a successful past day and night in. Sorry for the mess, they all went straight to bed and some of them were too exhausted to remove their astonishing clothes…

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 view closet

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 These are pictures of our showroom exhibition, created together with Freudenthal / Verhagen.

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