vrijdag 17 oktober 2008

The Gabarron Foundation, Carriage House of the Arts







It has been for awhile to be connected with my blog but in the meanwhile there happened a lot of nice things, like love life, birthday parties, a
show with Painted and this exhibition which was set up as a collaboration between Eko-lab and Ekovaruhuset NY.
Now I am in NYC again so will catch up from here.

The outfit is made of dress nettle fabric peace silk bobbin lace peace silk embroidery with gemstones dyed with earthhues natural dye.
camisole linen
skirt cotton.
crochet necklace with hemp and gemstones
mask out of paper, organic cotton.


To see the whole exhibition you can use the flickr link below.
and also find other websites from people who were involved.

Photo by Duncan Morimoto-Brown

We were sponsored by the Gabbarron Foundation! And during the event Charwei Tsai presented her new issue of 'lovely daze magazine' a magazine curated by Charwei and is sold all over in the world.
In the magazine Charwei let the artists she curated speak for themselfes so you always get a personal review on the work. U should check it out it is very nice.

After the event we went to the after party which was brought up by Charwei, I guess..
And we were very lucky to have Mark Borthwick as our guest performer. His lovely tunes made us feel relaxed and lightening again. I could not imagine a better party than we had. Many thanks. It was very lovely, Julien Asfour!! Charwei, Mark!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22772382@N00/sets/72157607230444503/show/
www.ekovaruhuset.se
Eko-lab.com
Gabbarronfoundation.org
lovelydaze.com

vrijdag 5 september 2008

New York fashion week 5-12 september 2008


Now I am preparing my work for the New York fashion week,
where I will present my work in collaboration with Eko-laborative and the store Ekovuruset on Ludlowstreet 123, where I'll also be very pleased to sell my collection starting this autumn.

My participation is generously supported by the dutch Foundation of visual arts, design and architecture.


Summer report three: Amsterdam, Painted Garden


...And there it is, our longtime work and treasures to be showed to the world!

At august 22nd, 17.30 we started the show in a beautiful garden at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam.
We are: Saskia van Drimmelen, Margreet Sweerts, Jarwo Gibson and I, Desiree Hammen,
and together we work under the name Painted by.
We always invite many others to work with us. All what we share with eachother results in the clothing we make with love and mostly by hand.

We have a beautiful collection of one of kind semi haute couture pieces,
a small collection pret-a-porter and last but not least a series of easy-to-wear t-shirts!

Please visit our website: www.paintedseries.com

http://www.dianepernet.typepad.com/
http://www.dazeddigital.com/article/949/1/PaintedbySaskiavanDrimmelen
http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/bericht.php?id=217079

Summer Report part two: Sweden, Thor's birthday






In Sweden I went to visit Johanna Hofring, Thor Soderin and Vida!
I worked in a very interesting and inspiring surrounding where I did some actions.
One of the actions was on Thor's birthday and during this big anniversary party I did my action called Animal Farm.

Summer Report part one: Paris

In Paris is located 'Maison Lesage' a very special place were Haute Couture embroideries are made by craftspeople.
The House of Lesage is very well known throughout the world for their treasuring works of embroidery.
I went there for the school, 'Ecole Lesage' atelier de broderie to make a longtime wish come true: be tought in the secrets of Haute Couture embroidery, and I made 'the dove'.

dinsdag 26 augustus 2008

La Tour Eiffel

First pictures I took with my Thornton and Pickard junior special ruby reflex camera from c1926! Very exciting to have a camera like that.
Hope we are a good match.
Found with help of Norman Beierle and Hester Keijser!
Later more about Paris, I went there with a special reason.

Peace and money ; )



Molnbo, Sweden, a little preview of the atmosphere in wich I could do some actions.