It’s weekend…

Pretty busy weekend…with the tradeshows starting in about a week times short and days long. We kickstarted the weekend with our Big Fat Sale together with Dings and T-Shu. We opened doors at 12 and quickly place was packed.

Mr. Dings never not working as you can see:

We did a 12 hours sale, and it was freezing over there. My toes almost froze off, so in the evening the Ontours decided it was time to warm up and we went to MU gallery for Vibskovs opening of his solo show The Visit. Lots of people there and it was worth it…Really nice expo, better then I expected. Here some snapshots, coming week I’ll go back and make some better shots so you’ll get a better impression of the work. Now I’ll try to explain: The MU space is divided into 3 ‘boxes’ each of them covered with different textures that you’ll recognize from his shows he’s done in the last years. It feels as if you’re entering a space from another planet, with forms and colours that seem to grow in MU and want to grow outside the exhibition space. The nice thing is you can enter all boxes and in there again different levels are created where visitors are invited to walk or look into. In one of the boxes Vibskov reconstructs parts of the “Fantabulous Bicycle Music Factory” show; visitors can jump on the bikes themselves and orchestrate a music pieces together while cycling. One rail on the floor runs through all 3 boxes and you can lay down in a small car and experience the exhibition from a complete different perspective…

I think these picts explain all of this. Outside of the 3 textured boxes there’s a really nice overview of photo’s from previous shows, experiments and inspiration…when you have time to travel all the way to Eindhoven, this is the time to do so! Official press release can be read here.

This space is covered with the tentakels from his AW08 collection “The Mint Institue’ and inside sculpture and painting from an older season:

The rail that runs through MU:

In that space you could stick your head into a hole in the ceiling:

And an enormous field out of “The Land Of The Black Carrots” is revealed:

Another space was covered with the wooden sticks from his Quinny project:

Inside that space parts of the “Fantabulous Bicycle Music Factory” show:

B Free and Erosie working on a piece together:

Photos and paintings covering the walls of the space:

Ofcourse the elite of Eindhoven art scene was represent:

And even Amsterdam Eastside sended Julien from JulesDavid to check out the sweetness from the chocolate fountain:

Vibskov himself. And Robob himself:

Afterwards we headed back to our warehouse to clean up the sale, but immediatley it turned into a very competitive midnight table tennis event…Dings vs Ontour:

Ontour vs Eastpack:

Ontour vs Dings part2:

Wouters tries to concentrate…before it all start to spin around:

The day after was an early one…all our AW09 samples have arrived! Again, a big step for us. More and more our label finds its way into the direction we want it to go. For now just a sneak preview, for those going to Bread and Butter and / or Bright, visit our booth and we’ll show all in detail…

Saturday was photoshoot day. Working with Sophie and Brahm was again a pleasure and for the first time we worked together with Boudewijn Bollmann from Twisted Streets:

The set up:

The main reason I’m in this business is to finally be a stylist:

Already looking forward to next winter! But first our Spring09 collection ofcourse! Here a first preview of our upcoming reshaped site:

And now it’s sunday and I’m blogging:( Time to go out! See ya.