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NATIONAL DESIGNERS ON INTERNATIONAL NEXT & CUTTING EDGE STAGE

On July 17^th and 18^th, Amsterdam will welcome a group of 16 international fashion design talents. These designers, invited by Modefabriek to present their newest collections at the Next & Cutting Edge designer platform, hail from locations around the globe, including Spain, Denmark, the UK, the US and Romania. There are also 4 home-grown talents. These Dutch designers are well worth their place on this international stage.

Take Iranian-born Dutch designer Maryam Kordbacheh. After graduating cum laude from the Willem de Kooning Academy and then completing a masters degree at the Arnhem Fashion Institute, Kordbacheh reached the final of this year’s edition of the internationally acclaimed Hyères International Festival of Fashion & Photography. The young fashion duo Bravoure went just across the border to present and sell their ‘Native Structures’ 2011 collection at the pop-up concept store DSGNRMRKT in Hasselt, Belgium. Furthermore, Roos van Kampen, winner of the 2010 series of Catwalk Runway is currently aiming to launch her label Roparosa on the international stage. Last week, she debuted internationally with her brand new collection at Premium in Berlin. Her national sales figures have skyrocketed in the last year and she is now ready to expand her borders. Our newest prospect is Afghan-born Roya Hesam. Having graduated from AMFI, she won the International Award at London’s Graduate Fashion Week and she has already been picked up by Vogue UK.

All 16 designers are being presented on Modefabriek’s Next & Cutting Edge international designer stage. On Monday, the 18th of July, their designs will be showcased on the Modefabriek catwalk.

ROPAROSA X BEATRICE // FEMINISM ANNO SS2012

The power of cooperation, that’s what two talented young creative’s are showing us. And with young I rather mean fresh looking than unskilled. Fashion designer Roos van der Kamp and stylist Beatrice Jolly are working together for three seasons now on the ROPAROSA collections and the presentations of them. They are fighting something different than a life without flat-irons, but still you can feel the drive for stimulating individualism and inner power of female beings. The last collection of Roos was called “Come as you are” where the designs took shape from the centre of intuition: the abdomen. These hidden messages were a motivation for Beatrice to speak up.

Next to helping Roos as a stylist she will be giving birth soon to her own jewellery line BEATRICE. This line will be showed together with the SS2012 collection “Let go Let go” of ROPAROSA on Monday the 18th of July in the catwalkshow Modefabriek presents ‘Next & Cutting Edge’. The line will consist of statement pieces, of which the statement is not the excessive size showed to others, but is hidden in little engraved messages towards yourself…