Textile and Fashion Department 2024 EXPOSED
EXPOSED
A struggle, an almost physical battle with material and shape to capture a zeitgeist. An intrinsic drive for creativity and imagination. Exploring and activating ideas to express a personal vision.
Creating narratives that confront us with ourselves and our evertransforming society.
Despite our urge to continuously search and innovate, we now take a pause to come together and share what this curious and tenacious generation of designers has to say.
Not daunted by expectations, they are audacious to break free from already beaten paths. They experiment and discover unconditionally; take risks to be surprised by their own imagination.
Sharing their ideas is a privilege and a generous gesture, but be aware of the vulnerability it requires.
Feel their urge and experience their ambition, here, together, now and into the future. Let go of your own expectations, and enjoy the ride.
- Gerrit Uittenbogaard and Sanne Jansen Co-Heads of the Textile and Fashion Department
Catwalk Imagery by Peter Stigter
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Wertmann
Peter
Lost Product of Society
‘This
collection captures the essence of arctic and antarctic exploration, fused with the freedom of growing up in the Swiss Alps and the structure of military experience’
‘I want to express survival and isolation in extreme environments’
Riet Pedro
3 BA Fashion Design
Noah Warmer
3 BA Textile Design
‘Inspired by the city street life and rural living in Sierra Leone’
‘Rural Bliss & Freetown City Symphony’
Kim Gemmink 3 BA Fashion Design
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Elke Cloïn
Stoute Jongensdromen
‘My collection is an artistic exploration, born from my childhood desire to be a knight, promoting a playful reimagining of narratives and celebrating the representation and diversity of masculinepresenting women in self-expression’
‘My work seeks to reclaim language that can have an empowering effect on the LGBTQIA+ community, transforming terms with negative connotations into symbols of strength and pride’
Marijn Brinksma
3 BA Fashion Design
‘-not the end of life but the spring of death-‘
1 BA Fashion Design
‘Exploring how different ways of movement - of the body, material, surroundings - relate to each other’
Mathilde Gilcher
BA Fashion Design
Bas Pol & Asira Wiegers
TEXTILE DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Azul
Espirito Santo
3 BA Fashion Design
1 BA Textile Design
‘Second Skin’: a surreal second skin sagging, dripping down’
‘Conveying the weight of female suffering in a perfectionist society’
Hiromu Takeshita
Maja Lachowicz
2
Carla Schneider
BA Fashion Design
Carina Georgescu
3 BA Fashion Design
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Yara de Vries
The Common Ground
‘A collection about how we can find connection through transformation’
‘With these literally transforming pieces I want to aid different identities and invite the wearer to discover more about what they search for in clothing’
Iris Comerford 1 BA Textile Design
‘The
negotiation between interior furniture and the surface of the body’
‘The Old Man and the Sea - inspired by the Ernest Hemingway book’
3 BA Fashion Design
Kim Gemmink
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT Wassim
Wazza is a voice in my head
Zhenyi Zhou
3 BA Fashion Design
‘Shifting Identities’
1 BA Fashion Design
‘Triangles have the characteristics of rigid structures. On the other hand a circle can easily be transformed into a smooth curve’
Choryeong Lee
Emma Lobina
3 BA Textile Design
Jungyun Jang
3 BA Fashion Design
TEXTILE DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Lotte
Roelandse Pulp
‘A statement on textile waste, a research on how to utilize an abundant leftover material; the mixed fibers of postconsumer textiles’
‘With my designs I’m searching for discomfort and awkwardness by embracing a material and so finding new material expressions through intuitive research and obsessive making’
Simon Veldkamp
3 BA Fashion Design
2 BA Fashion Design
Anahita Karimi
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT Patryk Ochmański
First Communion
‘My collection deals with the duality of the human condition’
‘In my work I like to show a balance between desire and repulsion’
June Gibbs 3 BA Fashion Design
Laura Garnier
3 BA Textile Design
2 BA Fashion Design
Izzy Monteiro Bühlmeier
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Siyu Zhang
Post-zen studio
Léon Angel
1 BA Textile Design
‘Second Skin: an audible costume, an exploration of unconventional sound through ancient textile techniques’
3 BA Fashion Design
Simon Veldkamp
TEXTILE DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Ieva
Drobenkaité
Where Flowers Grew
‘The empty family greenhouses that were once filled with life became overgrown, they will be torn down and replaced by new structures of plants and knits that will grow and change’
‘My designs challenge the traditional use of knits and bring a new approach to forming structures by merging bamboo with textiles’
Hiromu Takeshita
Carina Georgescu
3 BA Fashion Design Julia
Ferdynus
Fashion Design
‘A person wanting to change from a helpless heavy feeling is getting tangled and runs away’
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
The Routine
Julia Groven
‘Visualising the true essence of martial arts being a routined and silent focus. Translated into a hybrid sportswear collection’
Bas Pol & Asira Wiegers
3 BA Fashion Design
Arthur Wagenaar
2 BA Fashion Design
‘The Intensity of Thymos in Mishima’
‘I tried to express the feeling of ‘fire in the belly’ and what it does with the structure of the body surrounding it’
Tim Dekkker 2 BA Fashion Design
Sam McKendy
1 BA Fashion Design
‘Don’t fear the night as she is the bringer of the dawn’
‘The interconnection between the day and the night’
Sascha Jansma
1 BA Fashion Design
‘Alienation of the outcast’
‘My designs emphasize the power of speculation and the grip it had on people both past and present, evolving from witches and misunderstood geniuses to modern time conspiracy theories’
FASHION DESIGN GRADUATION PROJECT
Sophia Linnea Bogstedt
The Last of the Teenage Idols
‘I have a violent need to create stories and groups in my workthis has manifested itself into my love for my musical upbringing by my father and my muse
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’
‘Using raw and ripped seams in this collection I am allowing the fabrics to behave in their natural way. They have become characters of mine and they can be themselves’
BA Fashion Design
‘Auf der Suche nach Erfüllung’
‘The feeling of struggle but also of happiness’
Zhenyi Zhou
3 BA Fashion Design
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