3 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024
Amsterdam Museum on the AmstelFashion from the past, present and future
During Amsterdam Fashion Week, on September 3, (fashion) journalist Aynouk Tan will talk with curator Roberto Luis Martins, founder of Lichting Mariette Hoitink, and designers Denzel Veerkamp and Tess van Zalinge. A conversation about the meaning of fashion past, present and future. Who decides what is of value in a museum and what is the importance of collection building for the fashion world?
Practical information
Date: 3 September
Time: Walk-in: 11.45 AM, start talk: 12.00 PM, end talk: 1.00 PM, visit mini-expo Unboxing: 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM
Price: €5,-
Location: Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel, Amstel 51
Language: Dutch
About the mini-expo
With fashion and style we say who we are, what time we live in, and what group we want to belong to. And also what we stand for, what we believe in, and where we want to go. From the moment a piece of clothing enters a museum collection, it assumes a different function. Specialists care for it, and it is studied together with the corresponding communities. Occasionally, it is exhibited to the public. The mini-exhibition Unboxing: Fashion from the Archives shows samples from the museum’s fashion collection and explores how such collections can be presented in new ways. From a 16th-century breastplate and new acquisitions by leading Amsterdam designers like Mohamed Benchellal and Tess van Zalinge, to the Pink Feather Explosion dress by David Laport, worn by pop icon Rihanna.
With Unboxing, we 'unpack'. Take a look behind the scenes, feel a 19th-century gown, and breathe in the scent of a hidden piece of clothing.
Aynouk Tan
Aynouk Tan is a (fashion) journalist and program maker specializing in the relationship between appearance and (queer) identity politics. By examining appearance as a system, among other things, colonial, cis gender and hetero normative narratives are deconstructed. In other words, the queering identity. Tan is also part of the advisory committee of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Dutch Design Awards, and chairs the board of the political party Amsterdam BIJ1.
Mariette Hoitink
Mariette connects creative, technical, commercial and digital professionals & skills with clients around the world. She is the co-founder of the House of Denim Foundation and the location Denim City, the denim innovation campus in Amsterdam with a branch out in São Paulo Brazil and the first and only Jean School in the world.
Tess van Zalinge
Tess van Zalinge (1989) designs on the intersection of couture and ready-to-wear with great attention to craftsmanship, sculptural forms and sustainability. She has a fascination for Dutch heritage and draws much of her inspiration from traditional regional knowledge and techniques. By using almost exclusively unused designer fabrics - aka deadstock - she shows in her collections how fashion can also be more sustainable.
Denzel Veerkamp
Denzel Veerkamp graduated as a fashion designer and immediately made promising impressions with his collection “The Rebound Parley” (2022). After being selected as a Lichting 2022 finalist, he made his runway debut at Amsterdam Fashion Week 2022. His collection then traveled on to Dutch Design Week 2022, Designblok Prague 2022 and international fashion event FASHIONCLASH Festival. In 2023, the Amsterdam Museum organized a mini-expo featuring Veerkamp's work called “The Perpetual Reverse Assimilation Project.
Roberto Luis Martins, 2022, Foto Amsterdam Museum, pfg
Roberto Luis Martins
Roberto Luis Martins (1994) is curator of Fashion and Popular Culture at the Amsterdam Museum. In his projects, multi-voicedness, multi-sensory and intergenerational transmission are central themes. Prior to this, Luis Martins co-curated the exhibitions Continue This Thread. Karim Adduchi x Tess van Zalinge, about the power of handcrafting techniques, and Grand March. A Historic House through a Ballroom Lens, about the artistic voices of ballroom house House of Vineyard.