In the city centre is the Amsterdam Museum, especially for all things Amsterdam. This museum in a former orphanage presents the exhibition “Puck & Hans – couture locale”. The Dutch fashion label Puck & Hans has been a fashion phenomenon from the seventies up to the nineties. Their collections were very bold, expressive and most of ...
Two bright red walls filled with Vogue covers on the upper floor of Somerset House, what do they have in common? On these magazines, all the stylish hairdos are created by master hairstylist Sam McKnight. Hair by Sam McKnight is the major exhibition celebrating the hairstylist’s 40-year career from the late 1970s to the current day. Known for ...
Love at first sight was my encounter with Peter Lindbergh’s work. As one of the pioneers of current fashion photography, the 71-year old photographer has a solo exhibition “A Different Vision on Fashion Photography” in de Kunsthal Rotterdam. Like a visual behind-the-scenes story from idea to production and postproduction, this exhibition takes you through decades of ...
A Wednesday afternoon at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Berlin: Celebrating life and a longing for holiday destinations like Bahia, Buenos Aires and Cuba are the starting points for Laurèl’s Spring/ Summer 2017 fashion show. Sparkling with upbeat energy and a smile, models wear long flowy summer dresses, crochet style blue dresses over bikinis, Carmen tops ...
Flipping through old Vogues and photo books in my mum’s house, I paused at one beautiful picture by German photographer Helmut Newton (Berlin, 1920 - West Hollywood, 2004). A model wearing a tuxedo by Yves Saint-Laurent, standing alone in a Parisian dim lit street is an iconic fashion image for many of us. This black ...
Every time I visit the Modemuseum Hasselt, I always get inspired by their choice of fashion theme. This season fashion journalist, photographer and designer Filep Motwary collaborates with this museum for the “Haute-à-Porter” exhibition as a curator. This expo shows a visual history of haute couture and prêt- à -porter of the last 30 years. More ...
My sisters still have those great old family photo books. A beige album covered with flower embroidery, one with a lurex purple ton-sur-ton pattern and of course, a big blue with the word “Album” in a Seventies font. Inside the beautiful pictures of my family’s past, some a bit blurred by age. It has something ...
