SO DUTCH FASHION

SO DUTCH FASHION - So Dutch Fashion is the PR-unit of the Dutch Fashion Foundation and focuses on the world-wide promotion of Dutch fashion. We present the collections of nine designers in our showroom in the World Fashion Centre and we offer diverse pr activities for these designers.

So Dutch Fashion is located in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam.
Kon. Wilhelminaplein 13 / Tower 1 / Floor 13
Tel: +31 (0)20 6170957
E-mail: info@sodutchfashion.nl

You are always welcome to visit our showroom from monday until friday from 10.00 - 18.00 hours. It is not necessary to make an appointment.

The following designer labels are presented in the So Dutch Fashion showroom:

Bas Kosters - Catta Donkersloot - van Markoviec - Maryam Kordbacheh - Heren van Koster - Felicia Adelina Mak - Marloes Blaas - Linda Valkeman - Marcha Hüskes

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SO DUTCH FASHION DESIGNERS

Bas Kosters

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In 2005 Bas Kosters started the Bas Kosters Studio to house al his fashion related activities he undertakes as an artist in one company name. Besides designing clothes Bas Kosters paints, illustrates, makes dolls, objects, installations, music and does performances. The dolls play a big part in the work of Bas Kosters Studio. You can also find them in prints and as accessories. An opulent use of colours, intensive embroidery and the use of his signature prints are recognizable features of Bas his work. A few months ago the Bas Kosters Studio’s new website went online with a web shop as a happy addition to it. Bas Kosters presented his Freedom collection in June 2009 in Amsterdam and in September in Paris. The Freedom collection consists of two parts. The first part speaks about freedom, fantasy and pleasure. The second part illustrates the perspective on the world of an adult. An adult that tries to forget war, violence and crisis by dressing themselves up in glamorous outfits.www.baskosters.com

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Catta Donkersloot

Catta Donkersloot designs womenswear with a use of natural fabrics, a clean cut, surprising elements and a graphic balance. She presented her Spring/Summer 2010 collection, “Poppy Dreaming” on the 21st of July at the Prelude Spring/Summer 2010 fashion salon. Poppy Dreaming can play a leading role in a heavenly downfall and this flower is the messenger of the warm and romantic spring and summer seasons. The woman represented in the spring/summer 2010 collection is fierce, classic and a dreamer. Natural fabrics are used with the clearest precision. A clean cut and graphic balances incorporate surprising details. The classical shapes in Catta’s work are used to tell a romantic and poetic story. A theme that often returns in her collections is the believe that nothing is what it seems and expectations are acceded. In her designs there is always a very thin line between fashion and art. After graduating in 2006 from the master course ArtEZ Fashion Institute Arnhem (FIA), Catta started her own label. In November 2008 she opened her own shop in Amsterdam where she sells her designs such as blouses, skirts, sweaters and scarves as limited editions . www.catta.nl

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Van Markoviec

The Dutch-based label Van Markoviec of fashion designer Kasia Markowska and environmental scientist Zuzia Andziak is started out of the vision to integrate the latest trends in fashion with innovative technologies to create a sustainable quality fashion brand with an eco-philosophy. For each collection Van Markoviec explores innovative technologies to bring new, high quality textiles made with a sustainable manner of production, using environmental friendly textiles such as certified organic cotton, hemp and natural silk dyed with plant pigments. The majority of these textiles origin from European producers who are working according to fair trade principles. Nature remains an inspiring motive as the main theme of the Van Markoviec line. Playful combinations of vibrant summery contrast of lemon-yellow and deep night-navy complemented by subtle tones of off-white, beige and gray define the color mood of this collection.
www.vanmarkoviec.com

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Marcha Hüskes

Geometric shapes within a feminine silhouette characterize the new Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Simple and desirable pieces that take a woman from day into evening. Silhouettes wrap themselves around the body like a second skin. The feeling of this second skin is increased by the use of elastic and ergonomic fabrics. High quality jerseys, cotton, viscose and silk blends are used to shape a graphic, elegant look. The material is Marcha’s main source of inspiration. Marcha Hüskes signature design: elegant simplicity, always paying special attention to line and shape.

In 1998 Marcha Hüskes graduated from Arnhem’s Institute for the Arts (BA) followed by the post graduate course at the Fashion Institute Arnhem (MA) in 1999. In that same year she won the Frans Molenaar Award. From 2003 Marcha has been active internationally by collaborating with a Paris based showroom. The collections are sold to leading multi label boutiques and department stores in France, Italy, Japan and the US.

. www.marchahuskes.com

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Maryam Kordbacheh

Maryam Kordbacheh graduated from the master course Fashion Institute Arnhem (ArtEZ Fashion Masters) in January by presenting her collection during Amsterdam Fashion Week. She also presented her collection to the international fashion scene in Paris last Paris Fashion Week in March. For her collection ‘The Sexuality of Flowers’ she explored the intimacy between the cloth and the female body, and found a melancholic longing. Maryam is fascinated by fluid sculptures and inspired by the organic shapes of nature. She starts creating her designs by moulding and manipulating the fabric, and then discovering the actual pattern. All pieces in her collection are moulded and handcrafted – using techniques such as hand dying and hand pleating. With all natural materials such as silk, cotton, silk jersey, silk tulle and silk cashmere Maryam creates experimental pieces that women can wear and adore. Simplicity and purity is her vision of modernity.
www.maryamkordbacheh.com

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Heren van Koster

The men Roos Koster designs her label ‘Heren van Koster’ for are sons of thunder. Rude butterflies. Gorgeous, dirty butterflies. They wear mismatched socks, often with holes in them. They have beards, moustaches and body hair. Without shame they wear a stained pair of designer trousers. They are not easily intimidated: maybe it’s even impossible. For the collection ‘Een kleremans’ which Roos Koster created as her graduation collection for the master course Fashion Institute Arnhem (ArtEZ Fashion Masters) she aimed to make great clothes for her men– for walking, dancing, sitting, running. All day every day. The ‘Een kleremans’ collection shows treated fabrics, a manipulated men’s silhouette and cool color effects. By adding extra layers of fabric, the clothes manipulate the silhouette and the shape of the wearer – both visible and invisible. The tight fit on the chest and on the back of the legs of the trousers create an innovative profile. The fabrics are a clash between traditional fabrics such as flannels, wools, cottons and more modern materials as shiny plastic and transparent voiles. www.herenvankoster.nl

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Felicia Adelina Mak

Felicia Adelina Mak graduated from the Royal Academy The Hague in 2007 before enrolling in the master course of the Fashion Institute Arnhem. She was a contestant in the finals of the Frans Molenaar Award 2007 and participated at the Lichting 2007 presentation. Felicia presented her FIA-graduation collection during Amsterdam Fashion week and in Paris during Paris Fashion Week last March. This collection is significantly named ‘If you melt a suit, you’ll get a dress’ and is based on the idea of a striptease from a suit, slowly into a dress. For this collection, Felicia was inspired by Dita Von Teese and her burlesque strip-acts in which she gracefully and sensually undresses herself. In the collection the shapes are developed by literally taking a tailleur and producing it in softer and more feminine materials. Finally, it becomes a dress and disappears into lingerie. The colors are based on the black and white contrast of a suit, the naked skin and sensual orange. www.felicia-adelina-mak.com

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Marloes Blaas

After completing her Bachelor in fashion design at the HKU Marloes Blaas enrolled at the master course of the Fashion Institute Arnhem (ArtEZ Fashion Masters) to define and expand her network and vision on fashion. She presented her graduation collection during the last Amsterdam Fashion Week and in Paris during Paris Fashion Week last March. Now developing her own label is a logical step. In creating her designs Marloes Blaas works from traditional patterns, with their practical and sensible qualities, to develop into wearable garments with an innovative use of fabrics, details and colors. With earth tones and materials as silk, knitwear, wool and leather her collection has a raw edge, but with just the right amount of femininity. Her designs have a certain down-to-earth, nonchalant feeling which give the women who wear them the possibility to make it their own, and to introduce it in the world to linger. www.marloesblaas.nl

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Linda Valkeman

Linda Valkeman graduated from the Fashion Institute Arnhem (ArtEZ Fashion Masters) last January by presenting her collection at the Amsterdam Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week in March. Inspired by her own self-claimed chaotic personality which forces her to create structure, beauty, fabrics and above all new shapes, she has turned her collection into beautifully structured chaos. Her designs are based on classic shapes and patterns that go astray, but eventually find the right track back. The normal and abnormal go hand in hand, as well as the old and the new, presenting a consistent patchwork of contradictive ideas. The huge range of fabrics, mostly created by Linda herself, underline the chaos: pages from a scrapbook, the feathers from her grandpa’s farm, high tech nylon, pieces of wood, old-fashioned knits and plastics. In this collection her ‘delirium’ found it’s right direction. www.lindavalkeman.nl

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