Rietveld alumni rarely participated in this award installed by legendary Dutch couturier Frans Molenaar, simply because of mismatching schedules. But for the 2017 edition, they decided to change the procedure making it more realistic for my students to enter… and how. Not one Rietveld alumni won, but two! The jury was so excited they decided to add a second prize, one for Ninamounah Langestraat (who started her own label NINAMOUNAH, showing in Paris, London, New York and Amsterdam), the other for Boris Kollar (who proceded with a Master study Fashion Communication in Arnhem). 
Archive for January, 2019
FRANS MOLENAAR PRIZE 2017
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019MODEBELOFTE 2017: Digital Realists
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019Modebelofte, our international selection of freshly graduated fashion innovators, shown annually during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, is at a tipping point with this 2017 edition themed Digital Realists. Here is a link to our creative captain Harm Rensink’s site; he deserves the credit! Also see previous posts on Modebelofte and of course the next one on the 2018 edition for more about this beautiful talent platform that I am proud to be a part of.
REB Projects
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019Together with Stef Bakker from Studio Bakker and graphic designer Carsten Klein I developed a classy communication concept for classy boutique real estate developer REB Projects (partly owned my good old friend Farid Asserti with whom I’ve had the pleasure to work on quite a few occasions in the past. (House of Orange, Le Souk, Mammoush, Bo Cinq). In the meantime, we have developed already quite a few of our fancy ‘cahiers’ – sales brochures that pay tribute to the property and the city and places the new inhabitant in its narrative – and the new website is online. The first one was for The Artesia.
borrowed from REB Projects’ Instagram