On Friday September 28 I was invited to the opening dinner in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, in honor of the opening of Han Nefkens Fashion Award 2012 winner Rejina Pyo’s breathtaking exhibition. The Han Nefkens Fasion Award jury panel, including Viktor & Rolf, Gentlewoman’s Penny Martin, fashion lecturer José Teunissen and mecenas Han Nefkens himself, selected the young Korean born Central Saint Martins Fashion Master graduate as the lucky talent to be granted 25.000 Euro’s to realize a new collection and putting it up in a show at the wonderful Boijmans van Beuningen art temple in Rotterdam. Rejina Pyo’s work is overwhelming in it’s sculptural perfection. Niels Klavers and I returned shortly after for a field trip with the Gerrit Rietveld fashion department (which also included a tour by Monique van Heist of exhibition about workwear in the Zeeuws Museum).
