Amsterdam Fashionweek July 2013 is over

Hellooooo,

That’s it, Amsterdam fashionweek July 2013 is over. I hope all the fashionlovers enjoyed the beautiful creations livestream or in real. I’m already looking forward for AFW January 2014!

I had the beautiful luck that I could be at the final day frontstage and backstage thanks to a photographer/blogger/fashionjournalist/modelscout . This day was Tuesday the 16th of July, I’ve watched all the shows and collections: ByDanie, Allan Vos, Cold Method, Winde Rienstra and Lichting 2013.

ByDanie was really a fun show! The beautiful and sexy Sylvia Geersen was opening the show and the walk was kind of Victoria Secret’s style: fun, kisses, loud live music.. I LOVED it!

Danie Bles (the owner of this label ByDanie) made a FW ’13 collection and a Party ’13 colecction. Maybelline New York, who invited Danie to work with, made the eyes look very big, because ‘Big Eyes it is!’ for the next season.

What I really liked about her collection were the shimmering aspects with the fur coats.

Left up/leftmid: Allan Vos Midup: ByDanie Rightup: interview Down: backstage ByDanie en Lichting 2013

Then Allan Vos was having his collection showed at the Transformatorhouse. I was really excited for this one, because I had seen most of his outfits in Michelangelo Winklaars and Allan Vos’ their atelier in The Hague. But on really nice male models it looked even better.

Backstage there was a really nice atmosphere, it seemed like there was no stress at all. And as Allan said: ‘Well, all the outfits are ready so only some adjustments has to be made and then it’s showtime!’

While I was backstage my friend/designer Michelangelo Winklaar got me in one of his sexy Mangel Ichelo dresses, in which I felt very fashionable :) MW was helping his man Allan with the choreography and cue for the models. The show was amazing: the beautiful pants with pleats were really great and outstanding to me.

The third show was the Cold Method show, a really busy one because of all the audience. Very casual/wearable, I loved the blocked aspects. Especially the blue suit!

 Midup: Winde Rienstra Leftup/Rightup: Lichting 2013 Leftdown: Cold Method and just loved this woman in color <3

Then the show from Winde Rienstra. Many people were looking forward to this one. Winde is known as an artist with great use of special fabrics and a designer with an artistic vision. Before the show there were already some rumours about the shoes.

I was really holding my breath when the first model came up and I saw the shoes. How bad I felt for them. They were accompanied by male hosts of AFW which wasn’t the plan in the beginning  people told me. Well the collection was beautiful, some artistic pieces of art and some beautiful flattering dresses with flower prints, wearable as well.

The last show of this fashionweek was one which is held every year and as always everyone was looking forward for the new generation of designers from fashion schools. Lichting 2013 sponsored by G-star Raw is a competition where the two best graduated designers from different schools as WDKA, KABK, AMFI, HKU, artEZ, Gerrit Rietveld were showing four pieces of their collection. In the end 150 fashion specialists are voting for their favorite and then there is a winner. Henriëtte Tilanus won this edition, a student from artEZ and she was my favorite as well. I also really loved the collection of Loekie Mulder which I had seen before when I walked for the KABK as well. Well done ex-students!

I recommend you to the official site of Amsterdam Fashionweek. There you can find an great overview of all shows http://www.amsterdamfashionweek.com/en/shows

Enjoy the sun beauties!

Next post will probably be about music / festivals! Stay tuned and enjoy holiday!

Love XOX Kirsten