The SS2021 Haute Couture Collection by RVDK and presented during Paris Fashion Week expresses a surreal fantasy, glamorous and nostalgic reverie, featuring eccentric characters going haywire, residing in their suites and roaming the corridors in an almost abandoned Hotel de L’Europe*****
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"The world is full of beautiful things we can't see anymore, because we are too busy to consider them or too rookie to appreciate them.
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We used felted textile trash made from discarded uniforms developed by ‘i-did’, molding a corset in one seamless piece and trimming it with a border of handwoven leftover metal chains.
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We brought back the ‘Boucherouite’ weaving technique we introduced a year ago, working again with ‘Carpet of Life’, creating intricate 3D textiles with leftover fabric scraps to replace fur and fake fur.
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We gave new meaning to vintage wall coverings, leftover couture fabrics, antique kimonos, surplus feathers, fringes and beads and turned them into dresses, pillows, art and accessories.
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We created elaborate pieces of textile art from scraps by collaging, hand painting, dyeing, quilting, appliqueing, embellishing, hand weaving and embroidering.
We reimagined discarded hotel ‘paintings’ - printed reproductions of Dutch masters - into new works of art."...Ronald van Der Kemp
© Ronald van Der Kemp
Ph:Marijke Aerden
