photo  •  Getty Images

This picture was taken of Mary-Kate Olsen when she attended the 25th Anniversary of the Annual CFDA Fashion Awards held on June 4, 2007 in New York City. Pink hair, back then? Was she really that far ahead of her time..

Faux or really her hair colour?
Check out 0800Pink Tumblr for more pink hair and make up your mind. ;)

 photos • Fashion gone Rogue

I am going crazy over this editorial for b Magazine! Tom Allen shot model Dempsey Stewart like an ultra fashionable tribal princess. Stylist Steven Westgarth(props!) selects pieces from designers like Christopher Kane, Bernhard Willhelm and JW Anderson. This is very modern and new look.

photos • Trendland

This is the first time in years I really loved an Emporio Armani collection. I am still going loco for his work from the 90′s, but for the last couple of years it seemed a bit dull. But this Spring/Summer 2012 campaign got me smiling again. It looks fresh and elegant. And how badly do I want those snakeskin with plastic platforms! The models are Tao Okamoto, Kendra Spears and Wang Xiao.

 photos • Fashion Gone Rogue

This editorial from Russh Magazine is shot by Hugh Lippe. The model is our dutch Mirte Maas. Styling by Gillian Wilkins, hair by Chi Wong and barely there makeup by Maki H give Mirte an all natural look. I love the 90′s grunge vibe of this editorial. It looks really soft and romantic, but rough and grungy at the same time. Well done. And that blouse skirt in the first picture is awesome, i’d want that one.

 photos • Anne Mertens

This saturday I went to the exhibition of Azzedine Alaïa at the Groninger Museum. It was breathtaking. So beautiful! I don’t know any other designer that literally embraces the female body as he does. It’s so feminine and elegantly sexy. I also really liked the colored walls of the museum with the clothing in it. It gave it something extra fresh. This is a must-see people.

Azzedine Alaïa at the Groninger Museum.

Mexican Sandals,
Black Woven w/ Buckle, $115
Get them at Maryam Nassir Zadeh

 www.mnzstore.com

Androgyn by Rickard Sund for Fashion Gone Rogue

expressing my love for the read head and proud to be one :)

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Opening by winner last year  •  Elsien Gringhuis

Our Favorite  •  Narelle Dore

The Category 1 Finalists

Winner Category 2  •  Carrie Parry

Winner Category 1  •  Studio JUX
Photo’s   •  Anne Mertens&Fira Rietveld

The collection we really  loved was the collection by the Australian Narelle Dore. She entered in the 2nd categorie. Her garments were made of bio-wool yarns in very cute pastels, you know we love! But not our Narlle but Carrie Parry was the winner in the second categorie and in the first categorie the winner was Studio JUX

A lot of the designers in the competition were quite comercial or very conceptual and definitely innovative when it comes to sustainability, but not so much when it comes to design. The garments I would want to wear were a sort of furry coat in cream-white by STATdivision (designer Ingrid Meijer) and a pastel yarn dress by Narelle Dore.

Our beautiful princess Maxima was also in the house! She looked lovely in Jan Taminiau and we love that she comes to shows and initiatives like this one. (Although it was very hard(!) to get out of the building with all the security around.)

photo’s  •  Fira

Last night, in an empty house at the Prinsengracht 778 in Amsterdam there was a “One Night Guerilla Expo“, 778 Expo.  The expo showed drawing and photography by Sanja Marusic, Romy Treebusch, Laila Cohen, Roi Oosterbeek & Sophie van der Perre.

I initially went there to see my friend Laila Cohen‘s pictures, which included a portrait of myself in the redhead/roux series . (6th&7th picture)

I was very impressed by Sanja Marusic‘s pictures, which included a series of photo’s (2nd picture) of the graduation collection of Marius op ‘t Eynde whom we graduated with last year. Very coincidental to both be in the same expo.

 photos • Michele van Vliet

Finally online! This is the look book from my graduation collection (Anne Mertens). Photography by Michele van Vliet, hair and make-up by Frances Krol, Styling, clothing/jewelry design by Anne Mertens and the model is Fred Brockhoven from Code Model Management.

The collection was inspired by random images from the 90′s, hiphop and R&B looks from the 90′s and I was playing with sexyness and transparency. What parts of the body are sexy to show and what parts are more sexy to cover up. And I wanted a clean, slick and classy look to roll out of this inspiration. All the stripes and square shapes in the garments are glued, not stitched. So the second look for instance is all fabric manipulation. I glued all the stripes on the base fabric. The colors are pastels and poppy pastels combined with gold.

Some street style research material of an iconic garment: The Baseball Jacket. Makes every classy outfit just a little bit more urban.

images  •  MNZstore & Arrow and Arrow

I met Lauren Manoogian while interning at Bodkin in New York, spring 2010. Lauren has a studio in Brooklyn, where she makes all her jewelry and knitwear. Her collections where in the same showroom as Bodkin was, at Maryam Nassir Zadeh. So I came in contact with her bracelets, necklaces all the time and I’ve been keeping an eye on her jewelry ever since.

Her work so simple with an hint of triba/african influences, I admire how she created such distinctive own signature. I am very charmed by the her mono use of colour too, usually white with a contract colour. Waiting for a store in Amsterdam to pick her stuff up!

check out her website and collection at
www.laurenmanoogian.com

 photos • Zahra Reijs

December Issue  •  Vogue Taiwan  •  Josefien Rodermans by Naomi Yang
via Fashion Gone Rogue 

 photos • Valentina Vos

The second Toile-de-Luxe collection we really wanted to show you is by my sweet friend Maxime Cartens. My personal favorite picture in this shoot is the one with the dog. Everything comes together so beautifully in that image. The old Amsterdam house with that slim dog and then the super modern fabric of that plastic coat(it’s made of pvc which is not finished with stitches but everything is sealed!). And I’m also a huge fan of that hand knitted set with that cute little collar.

“This collection is inspired by one of the first ‘housekeeping’ magazines from the 1930′s. In that magazine I found all kinds of fashion illustrations and knitting patterns that I found really inspiring. And with that I found all kinds of random images that fitted together just perfectly like 1950′s cars and inventions.” Maxime says herself.

Clothing Design & Styling • Maxime Cartens
Photography • Valentina Vos
Model • Frederieke Brockhoven @ CODE Model Management