SALON/Kant: Installation LOKK

Landelijk Organisatie Kant Kunst took it upon themselves to showcase the highly complicated art of lace-making at the opening of SALON/KANT on June 15th. The ladies and one gentleman, also known as the LOKKertjes, sat down in the courtyard and parts of the magnificent Amsterdam Museum and enjoyed the audience with a display of an ancient art.

The purpose of LOKK is to promote lace-making and the manufacture thereof. At the Amsterdam Museum finished works of LOKK are on display. Have a look!

 Please have a look at the truly inspiring exhibition 'The golden age' at Amsterdam Museum.

Opening route WinterSALON/2013

Saturday January the 19th at 11.00 we start at the courtyard of the Amsterdam Museum with our opening route.

We are proud to inform you that Christine de Baan, director of the Dutch DFA, will do the opening speech.

Please join us.

Opening route WinterSALON/2013:

11.00 - 11.45 Amsterdam Museum. Opening by Christine de Baan.
11.45- 12.00 The Times (Handelsblad Building)
12.00- 12.30 Options
12.30- 13.00 Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
13.00- 13.30 Josephine Colsen & JC Herman
13.30 - 14.00 Magazijn
14.00 - 14.30 Droog
14.30 - 15.00 Willet Holthuysen Museum
15.00 - 15.30 Geelvinck-Hinlopen Museum
15.30 - 16.00 Museum het Grachtenhuis
17.00 - 19.00 The Ravestijn Gallery

İstanbul Moda Akademisi (IMA) presents fashion design of four students at the Amsterdam Museum

The Turkish fashion talents Zehra Idil Bilgic, Pervin Caglayan, Oğuz Baykal and Hünkar Harani are students of the İstanbul Moda Akademisi (IMA) which we can admire in the Regentenkamer of the Amsterdam Museum as part of SALON/istanbul.  

from left to right: Hünkar Harani, Oğuz Baykal, Pervin Caglayan and Zehra Idil Bilgic (photo's Marij Rynja)

About IMA 

Istanbul Moda Academy (İMA) was founded as part of the Fashion and Textile Cluster Project, organized and financed by the European Union: Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade and Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters’ Associations (İTKİB). The academy aims to develope the Turkish textile and apparel industry, offering its services at the renovated Sadrazam Sait Paşa Konağı, now furnished with cutting-edge technologies, in the city Nişantaşı, the heart of Turkish fashion. İMA commenced its educational programs at the beginning of 2008 with courses in fashion design, fashion product development and technology, fashion photography and media, fashion management and marketing in collaboration with the world’s leading fashion schools: London College of Fashion, Domus Academy (Italy), and IFM (France). The staff consists of foreign and local trainers who train fashion professionals of the future  through professional development programs and academic programs focusing on the industry.

SALON/istanbul has opened its doors for you! Here is a first preview of some high lights ...

Pictures: Marij Rynja for SALON/ 

opening at the courtyard of the Amsterdam Museum, listening to Gijs Stork

opening with singer/theater director Khadija Massaoudi,
who confessed being in love with love and sang two Turkish love songs for us

In front of JC Herman at the Sint Jansstraat 15,
where Soepboer & Stooker show their digital printed silk scarfs in the windowdisplay

Zeynep Bacinoglu's Liquid Shells @ Amsterdam Museum

'Look at you' - amazing mannequin dolls with animated moving eyes dressed in the creations of Sara  Vrugt @ Magazijn 153

The mannequins of Sara Vrugt keep an eye on the SALON/crowd @ Magazijn 153

One of the many pictures of Dutch-Turkish photographer Ahmet Polat @ Magazijn153

The doors of the Oude Kerk give access to a breathtaking part of SALON/istanbul 

Tea Time Re-REPAIR fountain of JONGHLABEL @ De Oude Kerk 

One of the crafted designs of  BLAENK @ De Oude Kerk  

VROONLAND gives a preview of the product they're creating for the
Istanbul Design Bienial / SALON/TR @ Willet-Holthuysen 

The early adaptors of SALON/istanbul (the first visitors)'re watching the video projection of  Reinier Bosch & Marleen Folkerts and Hyun Yeu @ Willet-Holthuysen

This ceiling will never be the same now it has been transformed by BCXSY @ Willet-Holthuysen 

Side by side the purses of Tassenmuseum Hendrikje are the
dandy gloves of designer Gabriel Guevara

Mildew will never be the same again when its interpreted by Lizan Freijsen @ Museum van Loon 

The woman of Jongh Geleerd Oud Gedaan - an initiative of JONGHLABEL
demonstrate their crafts in the store of The Frozen Fountain 

Last chance to see the exhibition of MOAM @ Fontana Fortuna. Here a dress by Winde Rienstra who translated the Flower Bomb parfume of Viktor & Rolf

Last chance to see the exhibition of MOAM @ Fontana Fortuna. Here a dialogue between old work of stylist Frank Ankone (left) translated by Sonny Groo (right)  

The end of the SALON/ tour and the opening of SALON/istanbul: De Slang. Enter this yellow door and step into a visual world of BEGINNINGS by Kidscase & Annemarieke van Drimmelen and a set design by X+L   

BEGINNINGS @ De Slang

Salon/2 presents: Mattijs van Bergen - Paper Series #2: 'Ship' - Amsterdam Museum

One of the locations of Salon/2 is the Amsterdam Museum. And, again, amazing things happen in 'De regentenkamer'. Not fashion, but a boat-iful installation of MATTIJS is presented on the table of the room. This centre piece is inspired by the sea view- paintings hanging in the Regentenkamer. Mattijs van Bergen said: "In all my work I tend to think from colour, material and texture and specifically pleats. For me paper is the perfect material base to start working from. It is a blank canvas for new ideas. The paper connects to to collars in the sea-view portraits in the room. With bringing something new to this historic room I try to reference the past to the now, as I do in my collections". 

Paper Series #2 is a study for Paper Series #3: 'Paper Wedding'. It will be part of the exhibition Mart Visser, Kerkmeester: 'Ode to Dutch Couture' van 26 Augustus tot 2 oktober in de Nieuwe Kerk. Paper Series #1 (december 2009) was shown in the window of Jones Clothing Arnhem.

Go to the Amsterdam Museum and see for youself how overwelming the crafts of MATTIJS are,  even without textile and metal. The picture is just a detail, because it is to boat-iful to show you it in full....

About Mattijs van Bergen:

“King of Pleats" Mattijs van Bergen (1980) lauched his label in 2008.  His neo classical designs are defined by distinct use of color, high quality fabric and make.  The clothes should be forward, but survive the change of the seasons. Curvaceous tailoring and a sculptural use of pleating are part of the label’s signature cut.

His new glam handwriting has proven itself as highly attractive to women in the past years. The look is fresh, festive and feminine. With his designs, the designer strives to create feminine clothes that’ll seduce the women who wear them as well as surprise them by the highly innovative aspects. Great craftsmanship lies deep in the heart of MATTIJS. No wonder, with an education that started at the Institute of Fine Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands and successfully ended in London at the Central Saint Martins College, van Bergen has an eye for details, beautiful fabrics and well-cut clothes.

Mode Man Made - The opening of winterSALON/ at Amsterdam Museum

It was a dreary winter's day, but behind the back gates of Amsterdam Museum you would be mistaken for thinking it was a glorious summer's day.

The opening day of winterSALON/ was a day of merriment, beginning with hot chocolate and cake early Saturday morning, to the works of fashion photographer Philippe Vogelenzang and stylist Karrouch Majid.

MODE MADE MAN sits a series of 29 portraits of various men that explores and questions the artistic side of fashion. These subjects are real, what they are wearing is fashion and how it is captured is art.