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Fashion quote | James Laver on conceptual layers and clothes

W&V — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:01:01 +0000

Fashion quote on clothes, conceptual layers and meaning from the English author, art historian, museum curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum and pioneering fashion historian: James Laver.

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Diary 190710

W&V — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:31:54 +0000

Diary photo (snapshots) entry: production inspection.

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 190710

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Naoko Yoshimoto | conceptual clothing sculptures

W&V — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:13:45 +0000

Silent voice | 300×240×45cm | used white clothes

Japanese artist Naoko Yoshimoto began her career studying psychology at the University of Kyoto but moved gradually after it more into art. Her main medium are clothing and textiles. She creates very interesting and strong conceptual sculptures and installations made from garments like for example dresses, tops and trousers.

In the early days as she began collecting these clothes she saw them a bit as symbols of the people living in the places where she met the clothes. She imagined the histories behind them. Touching these used garments, gave her the idea she gained a feeling for the memories of these people and their everyday lives which the garments used to touch, a feeling that could not be communicated by words. But after while this gave her an uneasy feeling as she realized that she could imagine the people and the everyday life of the place she visited, but that she could not directly touch them. There was a feeling of distance and uncertainties. These thoughts had great influence of her current work and made sure she shifted even more towards a conceptual approach in her work.

In some of her current works like for example ” silent voice”, “shadow portrait” or “history behind clothes” she removes the colour of garments by bleaching or uses white coloured garments and compresses and condenses these “white shaded” clothes and transforms them into building blocks for her conceptual sculptures. These works depict conventional as well as more abstract objects and give an interesting social commentary which is created by the medium and its carrier.

White coffin | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

White coffin detail | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

Shadow portrait | 40×640×12cm | used white clothes

White coffin | 205×85×65cm | used white shirts

Shadow portrait | 40×640×12cm | used white clothes

White coffin | 150×130×180cm | used white shirts

River of oblivion detail | bleached clothes

River of oblivion | bleached clothes

Photos Naoko Yoshimoto | conceptual clothing sculptures

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Quote Mark Twain about clothes and fashion

W&V — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:16:27 +0000

Quote about clothes and fashion by American author and humorist: Mark Twain.

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Diary 100310

W&V — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:09:08 +0000

Diary photo entry

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 100310

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Body moulds & cloned in black

W&V — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:13:34 +0000

Body moulds and cloned in black (Clothing sculptures). Conceptual objects: exact tailored copies of the bodies of Warmenhoven & Venderbos translated into a rubber coated fabric and black leather.

From the WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS archives | Body moulds | More Warmenhoven & Venderbos projects |

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Diary: 061109 Video Curve/movement

W&V — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:53:15 +0000

Video diary entry:

C-AW1011 Curve/movement.

Fabric interaction with body – distortion

Video by WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | Diary 061109

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WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS Olympic Gold

W&V — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:58:03 +0000

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS designed various official Olympic collections for The Olympic team from The Netherlands. These collections where designed for the brand Asics and the NOC-NSF.

These collections contained street wear-, Fashion sport as well as functional sportswear styles in order to make the garments functional during training and sports activities and perfectly suited as leisure wear in the off times the Athletes had during the Olympic games.

Besides the garment collection, W&V also designed all accessories and special fan/supporter styles

Inspiration for these Olympic collections came from various sources linked to the hosting countries and translated into shapes like for example technical body-lines or retro sports styles. Colours of the Olympic collections where based on the national flag of the Netherlands combined with the colour of the Royal Family; royal blue and orange combined with technical white. Also the combination orange and black was proposed, where black referred to clothing and portait paintings of the Dutch Council of Regency in the Golden Age (17th century).

For some members of the Official Olympic delegation of the Netherlands W&V developed Couture garments which where tailored and cut on their unique sizes and body-shapes; Sportswear Haute Couture.

The official Olympic “Tulip” logo which is used on all items and gear of the Netherlands Olympic team was also designed by WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS.

It reflects the melting between a typical dutch iconic flower: The Tulip which has been fused with the Olympic flame.

The end result is a stylised powerful sub logo which shows the spirit of the Olympic Games and has a strong historical link with The Netherlands.

Find more information about Design porjects on the WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS website

WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS | NOC-NSF | Asics official Olympic gear The Netherlands | More Warmenhoven & Venderbos projects |

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