NEO NAIL TECH - Future Candy Collection

NEO NAIL TECH 
- Future Candy Collection

NEO NAIL TECH featured two
pieces from my The Passengers collection in their campaign for their Future Candy Collection.

NEO NAIL TECH produces Neo Nails, exclusive 3D Designed Nail Jewelry, a new futuristic and fashionable product. Neo Nails are 3D-printed press on nails with 3D structures on top of the nails. Neo Nails are available in different sizes, designs and colors, which enables you to customize your own set.

http://neonailtech.com

lookbook credits
Photography by Karen Kikkert Styling by Cynthia Staats (blue and grey jacket by BRANKOPOPOVIC).
Nail Styling by Frédérique Olthuis.
MUA by Mirjam Meijer — at Studio Ferdinand

Lichting 2015 supported by V&D

Abbie Stirrup

Nikki Duijst wins the Lichting 2015 supported by V&D award show at 23rd edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam

Lichting show is one of the highlights of Dutch fashion scene, this year in particular the level of talent was very high.
The concept of ‘Lichting’ is simple: the best graduates of seven Dutch fashion academies of one year present their work in one catwalk show. Each academy is represented by two talents.
Lichting was founded in 2007 to bridge the gap between the academy graduates and the fashion industry. Lichting is a selection of the very best of each of Holland’s seven fashion academies. Attended by fashion professionals and international jury panel, Lichting is a big platform for emerging talents.

In the jury panel this year there where NoéMie Schwaller (editor-in-chief of Dash magazine), Krystyna Metz ( head of product development at Ann Demeulemeester), Raïssa Verhaeghe (brand strategist and business developer for various fashion brands in luxury industry) and Patrick de Muynck (head designer fashion department Polimoda Florence).

The winner of LICHTING 2015 (10.000 prize money),  is Nikki Duijst, graduate of KABK, Royal Academy of Arts The Hague.
Her impeccable collection ”As we seek our face” is about the exploration of her personal fear about being in the spotlight versus portraying oneself. With today’s social media we are automatically pushed into presenting ourselves as extraordinary personalities. So she started thinking about a strong wish for anonymity. Her silhouettes hint at the influence of an interaction between femininity, seclusion and exposing yourself.
This is second year in a raw that designer from KABK wins the Lichting, last year Bastian Visch won with his sublime menswear collection. - > more about Lichting 2014.

Lichting 2015 finalists: Nikki Duijst, Isabelle Tellié, Nienke Smeulders, Paula Reichert, Natalie Barschewski, Yvette Peek, Abbie Stirrup, Karim Adduchi, Daniel Arosemena Jairala, Carlijn Gubbens, Sophie Hardeman, Fatma Kizil, Janina Volkmer and Yvette Peek.

http://www.lichting.nl

All images are by brankopopovicblog

Nikki Duijst

Nikki Duijst

FUTURA SS 2016

FUTURA debut at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam

FUTURA is the new menswear label with a strong, clean and minimalistic aesthetic, created by Anne Bosman and Tom Renema.

Anne Bosman graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014, with a degree in MA Menswear after he got his BA Fashion Design at ArtEZ Arnhem. His graduation collection received two H&M Design Awards in 2012. Tom Renema, with a degree in BA International Business management, takes care of the business side of the company.

http://f-u-t-u-r-a.com

Zyanya Keizer - Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam

Zyanya Keizer - HAVEN collection at 
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam

Zyanya Keizer stood out with the way she also played with thescenography, placing flour all over the runway it gave the show an extra touch of softness that somehow contrasted beautifully with the constructed garments.
Although it came across as there where too many ideas merged into one collection, the pieces she presented where well made and showed great potential.

In addition Zyanya used the opportunity to create awareness to repressed Albino's.
Zyanya works with Stichting Afrikaanse Albino's (African Albino Foundation) to create awareness to the oppressed albinos in Africa.
"HAVEN creates the suggestion of a 'safe place' and this is where everyone has the right to, as also the albinos in Africa who still are abandoned by their families and are followed by witch hunters for their body parts. This has to stop! With this show and through my collaboration with Stichting Afrikaanse Albino's  I want to give attention to the repression of albinism." 

http://zyanyakeizer.com

Noir Near Future - SS 2016

Noir Near Future - SS 2016
"Fantasies of Anxiety"

Inspired by the anxiety one may feel while going through the creative process and the book "The concept of anxiety" by Kiekegaard, designer Bregje Cox presented her latest collection during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam.

"To visualise anxiety and creativity my inspiration was drawn from the early era of computer aesthetics and sci-fi. This was translated into black and white disorted and pixelized prints to which then is added color to end up with lighter, colorful silhouettes."

Under her brand Noir Near Future, Bregje has been presenting collection in past few years. Her signature mark is mixing prints and experimenting with tailoring cuts, while still delivering wearable clothing.

http://noirnearfuture.com

Dark Depths by Judith van Vliet & Chris van den Elzen

Judith van Vliet & Chris van den Elzen joined forces for the second time. After the successful collaboration in 2014 for 'Excidium' collection, they continued collaboration and presented a brand new collection of clothing accessories and shoe design.
The collection premiered at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 but was now fully just presented
at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Amsterdam. They have been invited for a Vodafone FashionLab show.

'Dark Depths' collection is inspired by the undiscovered dark secrets of the deepest of the oceans. They expressed the concept with organic shapes, asymmetrical cuts, mixing volumes and textures.
Judith designed the clothing and Chris developed a new collection of 3d printed shoes.

chrisvandenelzen.com
judithvanvliet.nl

SADAK SS2016 - Berlin Fashion Week

On July 8th SADAK showed his upcoming SS16 collection during Mercedes-Benz-Fashion Week Berlin. 

Reported by Jonas Lütolf

Berlin is, regarding fashion, almost provincial compared to Paris – that’s what people sometimes say at least. Berlin Fashionweek is filled with C-list celebrities, tv-topmodels from seasons long gone and sugardaddies, filling up on free sekt in garish getups at the bar. That’s the reason the big labels such as Escada or Hugo Boss are gone now, it is often said as well. While there might be a grain of truth to this, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin just got very serious.

The german capital is known for an individual sense of streetstyle and young, up-and-coming designers – SADAK combines these two aspects into a pastel-colored concept of net-art fashion. The designer, Sasa Kovacevic, was born in Serbia but educated at Berlin School of Art in Weißensee. And regarding him, those accusations mentioned above simply do not apply. Kovacevic always manages to create very well tought-out collections that perfectly hit the zeitgeist and have, over time, developed a very specific visual language without being overly obvious of where the inspirations come from. Always inspired by different (sub) cultures, Kovacevic creates prints for his collections that highlight the wearers individuality and independence.

SADAK is, and undeniably so, a child of Web 2.0: the sheer handling of the different inspirations give every collection the vibe of a collage. A very chic, very cool Tumblr-Blog come to life trough textile. A moodboard in motion: distorted, twisted, darkened.
SADAK SS16 is right up this very alley: the oversized hip-hop cuts we’ve come to expect from Sadak are in this collection made from a flowing, silky material – in baby blue and pale pink, black and white, as well as plum. It’s a menswear collection that plays on the classic symbols of masculinity as well: soft fabrics and even softer colors on rugged models that might as well have been members of a (albeit very, very stylish and gender-conscious) gang. Deconstruction was a subtheme: shown on collars, blazer-vests and high-cut pants. Adding to that, Kovacevic likes to work with typography: for SS 16, fabric was printed with a love confession typically found on the net: „me + you =  ♥. Same here, Mr. Kovacevic, same here. 

Photography Guillem Vinas Chipi 

http://www.sadak.de

Klekko at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

Klekko 'Underline' AW 2015 collection 

Klekko showed that it is possibile to present a fresh and innovative black collection with their design approach. With just few subtile color details in the linings and insides the all almost all black collection is a very elegant and intruiging. All though presented on male model the collection transcends through gender codes.
http://klekko.com

Bluedenîmes & Minou Lejeune

Bluedenîmes & Minou Lejeune at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

The two designers met at MAFAD academy in Maastricht where they both graduated from in 2014. Dusty Thomas was one of the finalists at Lichting 2014, best of Dutch fashion graduates.
Their collaboration proved to be a very fertile offering a very fresh menswear proposal and striking accessories.

Dusty Thomas, born and based in Landgraaf, Netherlands has been designing clothing for three years and to her, fashion is the art of dressing the body. Dressing the human body creates stories. She loves stories about functional clothing. It intrigues her that clothing makes life easier for people in different situations. "We are fragile creatures after all; we need protection and cover."
Our dependency and need for fashion to express ourselves fascinates her. She aspires to make beautiful clothes for the male body through becoming a technical clothing expert. Learning about the male coupe in order to become a pattern-producing and sewing expert. Expressing her thoughts and interests in the wearable clothes she produces is what she needs to keep her mind calm and satisfied.

For FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015 she worked together with jewellery/props designer Minou Lejeune who designed the head accessories for her collection inspired by the pure and beautiful Arctic areas on our planet. Even though it's an AW collection its main function is not to warm the body. She wants her collection to emit the cold. She wants to shape the ice and the cold into her clothing. Her catwalk show will feel like an icy wind.

http://www.dustythomas.com
http://minoulejeune.com

Ima Mad - FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

                                                                                         Ima Mad
                                    „Tomorrow I will say all these things that I wanted to say but never did"

Rafael Kouto at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

Swiss designer, Rafael Kouto, presented his diploma collection 'Drag me to the after hour to the dark side of the moon' during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

 “This collection takes inspiration from the evolution of the phases of the moon. It explores the phenomenon of the diffraction of light, from the deepest black to a blinding white. It will take you along a fantastic wandering, where you will meet shadows, dark silhouettes and stellar eclipses. A world of pale illusions looming and where silver shadows arise. A landscape unseen with human eyes, hidden in the night and coming to light imminently. The mask of darkness is now unveiled, light shining so bright that it becomes impossible to make out day and night. The collection is a vision of a fascinating ideal, where bodies are illuminated by the timeless moonlight and reversed in tone. They are not from here and now. Staring at the moon, dreaming about how pure and sublime this very faraway island out in space might be. This kingdom is much closer than one would think. Admiring reflective surfaces is like going on a journey straight within oneself. Now that this is uncovered, stop looking elsewhere!”

http://www.rafaelkouto.com

YOUNG@SQUAT at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015

For the second time a fresh generation of talented designers from Slovenia presented their work as a collective during FASHIONCLASH Festival 2015.
The second generation of YOUNG@SQUAT  features designers: Barbara Krmelj, Matic Veler, Maja Leskovšek, Sofija Urumović, Barbara Vrbančič, Sara Valenci.

http://squat.si

L A T - winner FASHIONCLASH Festival Talent Award 2015

L A T is a brand by young designer Lautaro Amadeo Tambutto, born in Argentina and now based in Milan. He is the winner of FASHIONCLASH Festival Talent Award 2015. His collection is a contemporary interpretation of his country of origin, contaminated with a constant reference to the taste of the underground European metropolis as we can see from fits and styling. Folklore is missing, no nostalgia shouted. But the desire to re-establish a new concept of LAT (Latin American) that goes beyond the clichés.

Esmod Berlin Independence Show 2015

Anna Swic

ESMOD Berlin - BA Graduation Show 2015

Saturday night ESMOD Berlin presented to the world the next group of designers to shape the future of fashion at the annual ESMOD Berlin B.A. Graduation Show INDEPEN- DENCE. Taking place at the historic location Vollgutlager, the event was attended by over 500 industry professionals and fashion press. The 25 top collections debuted the young designers into the world and marked their entrance into the fashion world and were an array of intense colour, form, print and innovative silhouettes.
Every year ESMOD Berlin gathers an international jury of fashion experts to critique the collections. They jury are also responsible for awarding several prizes for the students.

This year they welcomed to the International Jury: 
Damir Doma, CEO Damir Doma, France
Susanne Stangl, Modeliste, Mulberry, United Kingdom
Catherine Le Goff, Editor, ARTE Culture, France
Stefan Siegel, Founder, Not Just A Label, United Kingdom
Ulrike Möslinger, International Marketing Director, Galeries Lafayette, France
Christine Walter-Bonini, ESMOD International Group, France

Damir Doma had the tough decision of deciding the illustrious Prix Createur for the most outstanding collection, which went to Anna Swic. The Prix du Jury (Jury Prize) went to Birute Mazeikaite and the Aigulle D’or was awarded jointly to Michael Vos and Alisa Menkhaus. The prize for the Best Pattern Making went to Birute Mazeikaite and the Best Fabric Manipulation to Florina Marxer.

All photography by Michael Wittig, 2015

MAFAD Graduation 2015

Renate Roxanne Cuiper

MAFAD - Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design

It's the time of the year when dreams and visions of young designers and artists are on display for the world to see. No exception for MAFAD academy in Maastricht with numerous promising 2015 graduates.
Starting from fashion department where 8 designers (From the About 11 collective) are graduating. We have already seen their graduation collection at FASHIONCLASH Festival, and now at the exhibition it is nice to see all the details. Here at the fashion and textile department one can discover very nice presentation of textile designer Maud Hoeilmakers who developed a collection of socks.
At the product and jewelry section all eyes on the striking and dramatic catwalk installation that shows the work of Renate Roxanne Cuiper. Furthermore there is a balanced variety of product and jewelry designer. One of the highlights is the work by Marit van Heumen who researched wearability and Caro Carpenter with poetic and spiritual installation.
Closing the visit at academy I enjoyed the fine arts department, in particular with work of Sara Bachour and Stef van den Dungen.

Congratulations to the MAFAD Class of 2015!

Please enjoy the picture report below.

All images by Brankopopovicblog