Showing posts with label AIS/ARUBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIS/ARUBA. Show all posts
December 2, 2011
Anne Bosman tells about his eccentric, surreal mens wear collection: ´This collection recalls the sense of a childhood freedom´
by Marij Elisabeth Rynja During AIS SALON/ in Aruba last november Anne Bosman presented his graduation collection he made at ArtEZ. Between all other participants of the so called ´Dutch Group Show´ Anne was the most conceptual and maybe even most bizar fashion collection for the people of Aruba who in general likes bikini´s, bright colors, and feminine glamour clothing. But now the audience could see what Dutch fashion and fashion design holds more, even when it comes to men´s wear.
Anne Bosman was over the moon when he heard he could show at Aruba, he flew over for just three days to witness this presentation. Anne Bosman tells us about his ideas and proces behind this remarkable men´s wear collection.
Anne Bosman: “A while ago I saw a serial portraits of Japanese emperors, they were all pictured sitting, where their kimono was folded to a three dimensional piece of art. So, it all started with a fascination for dictators and emperors. It is the way they’re dressed, very powerful, big and strong. Sometimes a little bit feminine. Funnily, this image also reminded me of children who wrap fabrics around their body and creating their own sculptures and stories.
To research my silhouettes I used two ways: the first one was to try on an oversized kimono in every possible way, also in combination with other fabrics; the second was to increase baby clothing to my own nowadays size. This brings total new silhouettes for men, because a pattern for a baby has other proportions then which for adult man. During my research the silhouettes also reminded me off when I was a little boy running through gardens, wearing my father´s jacket. I felt huge! Or, I putted on two towels and I became Julius Caesar! With this collection I wanted to recall that powerful sense, that feeling I had as a child, but now for grown up men.”
November 25, 2011
November 24, 2011
BACKSTAGE at the Dutch Fashion Show @ Aruba In Style, 05-11-11
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| Backstage - photo by Marij Rynja |
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| Edwin Oudshoorn |
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| Edwin Oudshoorn - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Edwin Oudshoorn with jewelry designer Claudia Ruiz. Edwin used her designs for the show in Aruba and asked her to show one of his amazing dresses on the runway. Claudia said she never felt so comfortable in a dress, because it fitted like a glove due to the tailoring qualities of Edwin. |
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| Close up of the jewelry of Claudia Ruiz, that Edwin selected for his show - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Anne Bosman's graduation collection for ArtEZ - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Anne Bosman created these shoes: a mixture of flipflops and indoor slippers - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Close up of the work of ArtEZ's Linda de Jong - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Close up of the plastic knitwear of Linda de Jong (ArtEZ) - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Models waiting to show the collection of Linda de Jong |
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| Close up of a dress by Sanne Schepers (ArtEZ) - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Dress by Sanne Schepers |
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| Models dressed in Sanne Schepers graduation collection for ArtEZ |
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| Loek Coerwinkel of the SALON/ team helping out backstage - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Marga Weimans with her models |
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| Mattijs van Bergen has created these magnificant wooden heels in cooperation with United Nude |
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| Just before the show Mattijs is interviewed by Aruban Press |
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| Front: Marga Weimans; Center pieces: Mattijs van Bergen; grey dress by Edwin Oudshoorn - photo Marij Rynja |
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| Close up of one of Mattijs van Bergens pleated dresses - photo Marij Rynja |
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| golden pleated dress by Mattijs van Bergen - photo Marij Rynja |
November 14, 2011
AIS SALON/ participant Efrem Angelo is adding more color to Aruba - UNOCA building, Oranjestad
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| Aruban Street Art by Efrem Angelo |
AIS/ SALON at the VCO building with Scheltens Abbenes, Elvis Lopez and Pauline van Dongen
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| 'Vitrine', placed in the vitrines of the VCO building in Aruba |
The specialty of photographer Maurice Scheltens (1972) and visual artist Liesbeth Abbenes (1970) is to meticulously arrange objects - chairs, glassware, shirts, perfume bottles - into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character. Scheltens & Abbenes reduce their objects to clean geometric lines, showing an understanding that the settings will ultimately only exist as a two-dimensional image. Essential to their work is the process in the studio where they construct their settings. A laborious process, in which Scheltens & Abbenes continuously move things around, painstakingly join pieces together and adjust little details. During this series of steps they take numerous shots and study them together intensively in order to arrive at the right composition.
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| Pauline van Dongen in bright daylight |
Pauline van Dongen
Pauline van Dongen's fascination for the relation between human and their surroundings is something that keeps feeding her inspiration. By working with sculptural shapes, forms like capsules floating around the body, she examines the space between the garment and the body and tries to emphasize that void in her designs. In 2008 Pauline graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the renowned Artez, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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| Elvis Lopez at the VCO building |
On a daily basis the tall, imposing figure of Elvis Lopez hurries through the maze of studios, exhibition halls and offices of Aruba's Ateliers ‘89, a quiet mecca for the arts housed in a rambling old turn-of-the-century school in the suburbs of downtown Oranjestad. Ateliers ‘89 cooperates with a number of Dutch art academies, helping young artists to transfer to an art school in the Netherlands.
November 11, 2011
AIS SALON/ at the Protestant Church Aruba presents: Osaira Muyale, David West, Marcha Hüskes, Claudia Ruiz, Jess Wolff, Pricilla Lacle, Mode Made Man, and a tribute installation to Arubas Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath
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| overview (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Pricilla Lacle (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Tribute to Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Accessories and jewelry by Claudia Ruiz-Vasquez (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| overview (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Marcha Hüskes (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Mode Made Man (on wall) and David West (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Mode Made Man (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Jess Wolff (photo: Marij Rynja) |
November 8, 2011
The Dushi's of AIS/ SALON at ARUBA!
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| Angelo Tromp / Edwin Oudshoorn / Nick Lynch / Sarah Schulten / Marga Weimans / Loek Coerwinkel / Gijs Stork / Claudia Ruiz / Manon Schaap / Mattijs van Bergen / Marij Rynja |
AIS SALON/ supports BRA-ART, a project for the awareness of breast cancer
SALON/ goes further than exposing the endeptment of contemporary fashion and design cross overs, we also like to support projects who give room for yougsters to explore their creative abilities. Like Bra-Art, a project of Atelier 89 of Elvis Lopez, an Aruban artist who started this Visual Arts Academy in 1989 and who coordinates numerous artistic projects on the island.
Last friday the resultst of a workshop for kids about the awareness of breast cancer was opened. Most of the children had witnessed the effect of breast cancer near by. They have customised bra's with various results. In this workshop they learned how to symbolise an emotion, a happening or a story into a personal piece of bra-art.This project was supported by Mary Joan Breast Cancer Support Group
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Heinrich 'Real men wear pink' Gonzalez entitled his creation 'Hey beautiful lady, which side do you choose'. His aunt survived breast cancer. He first made the bra, but was not satisfied. He created a body with one dammaged breast with cancer to enforce his message. For two months he worked on his bra-art project. Well done, Heinrich !
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Meet Marylou Hermans, a girl whose gransmother survived breast cancer and still enjoys her life. Marylou wanted to symbolise the way her grandmother dealed with her cancer. The roses symbolise beauty as well as blood, she tells me. The weaves and curls on the side of the bra symbolise transformation and movesment, that live goes on. And the peacock she made herself, stands for the pride her grandmother showed, with and after her cancer.
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| made of melted candle wax |
November 6, 2011
Magnificant ending of the Painted Table Dress process in Aruba
Friday afternoon time stood still on the shores of Aruba. On the dock of Roger's Beach, near San Nicolas, we witnessed a breath taking presentation and performance of the Painted table dress, made during the social embroidery workshop earlier this week with 16 participants at Scol di Arte.
On the sounds of a traditional Aruban piano box, musician Michael Lampe leaded dancer Alydia Wever, dressed in the table dress, from water to land where a long table waited to be covered by the table dress. Alydia Wever danced with the long embroidered cloth folded in her arms, like it was a new born ready to present to the outside world. When she reached the table, she softly song repeatedly an Aruban lullaby called 'Maria ta den Cushina' (about Maria who ask us to come to the table and see what she has prepaired). Two girls, dressed in creations of Painted Series, made subtle sound effects of people with clinking wine classes. At final, when the table was covered, the girls put water glasses on the table, while Alydia Wever put off the table dress, walked back to the water and dissapeared with a elegant dive.
For Painted it was an emotional moment seeing their effort and creation get together so well. It was exactly what they wished for when they created the table dress concept two years ago. "It felt really, really good, its a disclosure so perfect it moved me deeply", Margreet Sweerts said. Sakia van Drimmelen: "The idea was already there, but never the right moment. We were asked two years ago to create a table cloth, but just making a table cloth and present it in a shop felt unnatural and not 'painted' like. I knew all along this table cloth should be a made by more than one pair of hands. I saw people sitting around the table and embroider together, even when you never did that before. I am really happy with the result."
Afterwards I spoke shortly with Alydia Wever, who still swom in the water....and so was I. She told me that since she lived in Queens, New York where she danced, she collected nice fabrics and textiles without doing anything with it. So, for her it was also a beatiful moment to dance with accual fabric in stead of only wearing it as a costume. And the teamwork made her dancing today right from the heart.
The project of the Painted Table dress is SALON/ pur sang.
Thank you Painted Series, Alydia Wever, Michael Lampe, Scol di Arte and especially UNOCA for supporting this well executed and delicate project.
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| In the back Alydia Wever starts her dance. The girl in frint is Alydia's daughter, a dancer as well, dressed by Painted. Photo: Marij Rynja |
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| The table dress will be unfolded. Photo: Marij Rynja |
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| End of presentation, the table dress is revealed (attached to the dress). Photo: Marij Rynja |
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| Michael Lampe Photo: Marij Rynja |
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| Alydia Wever | Margreet Sweerts | Robin de Vogel | Michael Lampe | Pierangely Wever | Saskia van Drimmelen |
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