9/06/2008

BERBER SOEPBOER

I finally received the photo's from my most fun and exciting project this year. Berber Soepboer approached me in august to design the textile for a series of dresses. The dresses will be shown on the 7th of september in Bergeick in a very famous textile factory 'De Ploeg'.

Berber makes wonderfully complicated and inventive clothes (please check out her final-exam section on her site). All her clothing can be in some way altered or adjusted by the wearer. For this assigment she worked around two concepts.


COLOURING-DRESS




The first one being a dress with a black and white dessin, which can be hand-coloured.




ASSEMBLY-DRESS




The second one is a set of three dresses that can be taken apart and combined with a button-system.


It was a LOT of work (I designed over a 100 patterns and Berber worked around the clock to get the sewing and the hundreds of buttons done) but I had an incredible time. This was also the first time in years I really worked together with an other designer and it think it was a big succes.

Berber...if you're reading this...let's drop everything, form a label (Soepboer & Schuurman) and take over the fashion-industry!

5 comments:

Gypsy at Heart said...

I'd buy! Both dresses are incredibly imaginative, whimsical and beautiful. I loved both your efforts. Do the fashion label.

The A of DNA said...

I would definitely buy these as well. They are gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

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Having more news about your work, tell me please! Our mail is blogmagenta@gmail.com ou gtemer@oglobo.com.br. Congratulations!

silvergirl said...

Yes, you two will surely conquer the world! Such lovely, lovely creations.

Mélissandre L. said...

Hi just discovered your work I really like the set of 3 dresses you can mix is there a place where I can buy those?