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Fashion exhibition Voici Paris: Haute Couture
Voici Paris: Haute Couture is a major exhibition which showcases the history of haute couture.
The exhibition recounts, on an inspiring way, the story of couture, beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century. This historical story is told by exclusive creations made by top designers, but also design drawings, accessories, fabric samples/swatches, embroideries, moving images and photographic material.
The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag owns one of the largest fashion collections in Europe, in which many of the well known couture houses are represented. It includes early pieces of couturiers like Worth, Poiret and Vionnet who where the forerunners of couturiers but also createurs (designers fashion) like we know them nowadays. The collection also contains famous or iconic items like for example the original pink Givenchy dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Next to the historical showcase of haute couture the exhibition highlights contemporary couture. Renowned fashion houses, such as Dior, Chanel, Christian Lacroix and Jean Paul Gaultier, have loaned exclusive couture creations from their most recent collections.In a parallel to the international history of couture the exhibition features also the history of Dutch couture and shows the work of notable dutch couturiers like Frans Molenaar and Fong Leng but also work from the new generation of Dutch couturiers like Jan Taminiau.
The curator and art director of the exhibition is Maarten Spruyt, who was also responsible for previous fashion exhibitions for the Gemeentemuseum, including Fashion NL: the next generation (2006), Hague Court Fashions (2007) and The Ideal Man (2008). This exhibition is part of Holland Art Cities and it will run untill 6th June 2010.
Photo top by Marc de Groot | Gemeentemuseum The Hague
WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS Olympic Gold
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. Find more information about Design porjects on the WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS website
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 portrait paintings of the Dutch Council of Regency in the Golden Age (17th century). The black orange combination gave a strong historical link to typical dutch cultural mentality and showed at the same time a parallel between the old Dutch masters of art and the contemporary Dutch olympic athletes.
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 and traditional link with The Netherlands.
WARMENHOVEN & VENDERBOS officiële Olympisch team collecties ontwerp.
Warmenhoven & Venderbos ontwierpen verschillende officiële Olympische kleding collecties van de Nederlandse Olympische ploeg voor het merk Asics en NOC-NSF.
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