Fashion show Wearwork, curated by Ninamounah
The fashion show Wearwork, curated by Ninamounah, is part of the exhibition Workwear, on view at the Nieuwe Instituut from 26 March to 10 September 2023. The fashion show features pieces by Hardeman, Kaam Kari La, Schepers Bosman, Das Leben Am Haverkamp, HEH, Pablo Salvador Willemars, and Camiel Fortgens. The fashion show is private; you can follow it live on Facebook and Instagram.
Wearwork will take place on Saturday 25 March 2023, prior to the grand opening of Workwear
25 March 2023
Workwear
In Workwear, discover the history and impact of the clothes that were once designed as tools. They have inspired everyday fashion and haute couture and have been embraced for decades by countless freethinkers, artists and politicians as symbols of solidarity and equality. Can workwear help us imagine the society of the future?
Opening Workwear
Put on your best chore clothes and join us for the opening of the Workwear exhibition on Saturday 25 March 2023.
Ninamounah
Amsterdam-based fashion label Ninamounah, run by creative director Ninamounah Langestraat and partner Tim Christiani, use workwear as a white canvas on which they shape their designs. “It’s a wonderful base to work with, one that always works,” they say, “an inexhaustible resource.” For the Wearwork fashion show, Ninamounah and Tim selected fellow designers with whom they share that premise. They each tell their own stories in a similar language, reinforcing each other and together showing how layered and versatile workwear can be.
Hardeman
Hardeman is a Dutch-born, LA based fashion designer. Hardeman’s designs encapsulate an of-the-moment perspective combining traditional workwear attire with high-end couture. Hardeman’s work is known to represent contemporary ideologies while challenging myths of mass culture, gender identity and conformity. Throwing conventionality to the wind.
Kaam Kari La
Kaam Kari La, portrays and dresses activists and artists to support them in their work. The show features collection pieces from Tomorrow and Soaked day, about the pressure to perform within the Hindostani community. The collection from CTRL+ALT+IDENTITY concerns the constant tension between the colonial, patriarchal, capitalist system and the brown bodies of the dancers who find themselves in it.
Schepers Bosman
Sanne Schepers and Anne Bosman are a Dutch designer duo based in Limburg, in the south of the Netherlands. The Schepers Bosman s/s and a/w 2023 collections draw inspiration from the Limburg flag and banner heritage, and feature geometric shapes, distinctive stitching and a graphic use of colour. The result is a modern take on miners’ clothing, representing both communal labour and the individual behind the uniform.
DLAH
Anouk van Klaveren, Christa van der Meer, Dewi Bekker and Gino Anthonisse joined forces after graduation and formed the collective Das Leben am Haverkamp. The collective is like a soap series: a never-ending tale, intimately intertwiningthe individual and the collective artistry of its members. Their togetherness creates the context necessary for their artistic practices to unfold, allowing them to reinvent their creative methods along the way.
HEH
Steel toecaps, side pockets, strong and durable rather than pretty and flashy is the signature motto for what my father does in his business. The heavy quality of workwear and its timeless, down-to-earth and communal aspect makes an ideal canvas. Workwear says nothing about the individual, at most the type of work you do, and this allows personal character to be more visible. It offers little room for vanity.
Pablo Salvador Willemars
Naming them after Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, Pablo Salvador Willemars parents knew they would be raising a creative.
Train travel is the inspiration behind the collection 'Beste Reizigers'. Growing up next to the railway museum in Utrecht and hearing stories from both their parents, grandfather and great-great-grandfathers, who are all (or have been) employed by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), Pablo Salvador grew up dreaming of opulent journeys with l'Orient Express and now wants to evoke the mixed bag of feelings train travel can give.
Camiel Fortgens
Camiel Fortgens is an Amsterdam-based brand that creates unisex, reconstructed and unpolished garments. Each one is an interpretation of archetypal clothing, handmade and executed to perfect imperfection. The clothes expose details that characterise and highlight Camiel‘s craftsmanship. All the garments are timeless and carefully crafted from fabrics of the highest quality, sourced throughout Europe and Japan.