I’m in Verona right now. Had a meeting and collection presentation at the headquarters of our Italian distributor Blue. We decided to add a couple days to see the beautiful city of Verona and see lovely Venice…

some business, sightseeing, shopping, galleries and food & wine:

Many thanks to Blue for the hospitality and Hilde for taking some classic picts;)

This weekend we were busy with photography of our new line. Collection has grown a lot so it took quite some time to shoot all items, but we’re very happy with the result. Here some work in progress previews…

More soon…

Remember the shoot we did half a year ago? Here part one of the result…SS10 Stranded Ontour:

Roger wearing ‘DenimDown’ shirt, ‘Cargo’ chino and ‘Seaside’ tee.

More soon…

In February our new SS10 collection themed ‘Stranded Ontour’ will hit the stores. I’ll start with some bits and pieces from now on….

According to an old saying, every time someone lights a cigarette with a candle, a sailor dies…

For a while we wanted to see the show ‘The Art of Fashion’ in Boijmans van Beuningen. This one ends the 10th of January, so last saturday we headed out to Rotterdam to have a look. And it was defenitely worth it; the exhibition design was really well done and some dope pieces…

Walter van Beirendonck:

Walter talking about this installation:

Nick Cave:

Freddie Robins:

Gareth Pugh:

Hussein Chalayan:

Sandra Backlund:

Christophe Coppens:

Margiela:

Dirk van Saene:

Anna-Nicole Ziesche:

Christophe Coppens very impressive ‘No References’ project:

Last ‘little’ showroom:

Discussing the art of fashion;)

Last sunday we visited Foam (museum for photography), one of my favourites in Amsterdam. Exhibitions change all the time and the quality is high. It’s quite small, so it’s also easy to just pop in and out.

In the basement Photography – in reverse; an exhibition of work by Constant Dullaart, Katja Mater, Jaap Scheeren, Corriette Schoenaerts and Anne de Vries. Five young Dutch photographers who work with the medium of photography in ‘a refreshingly uninhibited, unconventional and sometimes slightly anarchist way.’ Nice one:

Pigeon always wanted to be a parrot:

The main exhibition was from Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko. I especially liked his early works from the 1920’s in which he played with photomontage, collages and combined graphics with photos, have a look:

With the cold weather and hangover days round Christmas and New Year we thought it was a good idea to visit some musea and galleries for some shows we wanted to see but couldn’t find the time before. First one was Niet Normaal (Not Normal) in Berlage Amsterdam.

Lots of advertisements across the city about this one and the theme ‘what’s normal and who decides?’ sounded promosing. But I thought it was dissapointing; the layout was a chaos and the selection of works was a bit of a mess…the difference in quality was big and I couldn’t find a coherent story in what I saw. ‘All over the place’ in my opinion. Anyway, ofcourse there was some good stuff, here some picts of what I liked (one reason to go is to see some of the small movies, these are funny):

Tjep and Hirst:

Birgit Dieker:

Marc Quinn:

Dumas:

Chapman brothers:

All the best to everyone. What a start of the year. Cleaning what was left over of our Christmas tree after New Years Eve: