'Dissolving the Ego of Fashion' presents an in-depth introduction to the vision and research themes that the Fashion Professorship of ArtEZ University of the Arts sets out to explore in the coming years. Daniëlle Bruggeman aims to develop critical theories and practices in order to explore, better understand, and rethink the cracks in the fashion system and the role that fashion plays – and could potentially play – in relation to urgent socio-cultural, environmental, and political develo...

Koos van den Akker is vooral bekend geworden doordat hij de truien ontwierp die Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show droeg. Maar zijn verdiensten reiken veel verder dan dat. In 1968 sluit Van den Akker zijn Haagse couturesalon om met 168 dollar op zak en zijn naaimachine onder de arm zijn geluk in Amerika te beproeven. In 1970 opent hij zijn eerste winkel, om uiteindelijk in 1975 op de 'Gold Coast of Shopping' terecht te komen: Madison Avenue. Daarna volgen veel pieken en dalen, zowel zakelijk als pr...

There’s no escaping fashion. Everyone wears clothes, and that means making choices, always raising the same practical, strategic, political, or entirely irrational question: What should I put on? In this guide, Karin Schacknat has found a new, comprehensive way to illustrate the developments in European clothing and apparel-related behaviour from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. From the toga to Dolce & Gabbana, from the 17th century lace collar to Iris van Herpen. So much of...

The prevailing understanding of technology tends to focus either on its functional or instrumental value or on its expressive qualities as a matter of representation. Pauline van Dongen argues for the need to reframe the role of technology in fashion, examining how wearables – garments that combine electronics and digital materials with textiles – can become integral to fashion’s everyday reality. Her own practice as a fashion designer is informed by the concept of material aesthetics. ...