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fashion

'Versace broke the traditional male-female image' - exhibition on fashion designer and 'kitsch king' Gianni Versace at Groninger Museum

by Eugenia Melissen Ferrer
8 December 202214 December 2022
7 min read
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Why is the largest retrospective on Italian designer Gianni Versace yet on show in Groningen? "Why not?" jokes Andreas Blühm, general director of the Groninger Museum. Indeed, it seems like a bizarre choice, but if you look a little closer, you will discover a few commonalities between the museum in the down-to-earth north and the maximalism of Gianni Versace, who on 2...

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PODCAST! Why so modest? Modest Fashion celebrates exuberant covering as a new fashion trend.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 201922 September 2019
4 min read
VISUAL, fashion, PODCAST, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Since a still-famous, superbly dressed theatre deity declared me unfit for a future in his theatre in 1991 because of my shabby wardrobe, things have never really worked out between me and fashion, although these days my wife guards me from making too big a mistake. Not a very good starting point for a report on a fashion exhibition in Schiedam, but go ahead....

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At last. Interest groups arts and creative industries seek collaboration

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 July 201930 March 2022
3 min read
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It is actually a footnote in the press release that lobby organisation Kunsten '92 sent out into the world today. But, as always with footnotes, it did contain the most important news. Because Kunsten 92, the club in which organisations in the arts sector polder, is "exploring cooperation" with the Creative Industry Federation. The latter is the Arts '92 of everything that is also culture and creativity,...

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People no longer want to be seen as toys. We can't get around it. Museums can't get around it.

by Gemma Boon
8 November 201812 February 2020
17 min read
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Searching for what I stand for and what path I should take, time and again I come across facts that confuse and amaze me. I live in a country where only a single woman is in De Volkskrant top ten most influential people - in tenth place, that is. Only three out of 100 young Dutch millionaires...

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Even the rabble seem beautiful in Rome's 'flower power' era, and half of Europe wanted to experience it

by Harri Theirlynck
29 April 201830 April 2018
6 min read
ACTUAL, Architecture, VISUAL, HERITAGE, FILM, fashion

If you went to Rome before the 17th century you were a pilgrim. If you went to Rome the century after that you were a searching artist. Did you go to Rome from the 19th century onwards then you were an honourable 'Tourist' on Grand Tour, seeking inspiration and moral uplift. Going to Rome anno 2018 you are a...

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Majid Karrouch: flowers, Dutch design and the Berber hijab

by Melody Deldjou Fard
7 October 201729 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, VISUAL, Photography, fashion

His work has been featured in renowned fashion magazines worldwide. Majid Karrouch is currently one of our international calling cards in the creative Industry. I sought him out in his studio, which is as extraordinary as the images he creates. SCENE 1: #Ont encounter A while ago, I was first introduced to the exceptional work of a hidden Moroccan-Dutch fashion talent via Instagram....

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