NY fashion week: Photoshoot with Ruby

Photoshoot I did with Ruby of a few pieces of my collection for New York fashion week fall winter 08/09

Things i did not tell yet: New York FAshion week fall winter 08/09

Before Susan Cianciolo's show in the evening I joined the same 'greenday' during NY fashion week organized by Ekovaruhuset the store of Johanna Hofring on 123, Ludlowstreet in NYC.
For that reason I made a collection out of organic fabrics with patchwork details, embroideries and hand knitted gardigan and tunic dress. The fabrics are dyed by hand with natural dyes.

Things i did not tell yet: Susan Cianciolo

Last year I worked with Susan Cianciolo.
For her Fall/Winter08-09 haute couture collection I made the embroideries.

Besides that I made the jewelry under my own name and very happy to tell they were sold in a store in NY. PROJECT No. 8, 138 Division Street (Orchard/Ludlow)
New York, NY 10002 www.projectno8.com

I always love the work of Susan, and am thankfull I could work with her many times.

TONITE At the ELK gallery

Desirée Hammen
Insieme

Elk Gallery
33 Crosby Street (Between Broome and Grand)
New York, NY 10013

Opening reception: Saturday December 20th, 2008 6-9pm
One night exhibition, with music and dance

“Insieme” is a one-night presentation of Desirée Hammen’s intermingling of
art, vestment and jewelry shown hand in hand with discarded items found on
the street and documentary evidence of improvised social interaction.
Hammen’s sleeping pod made of cardboard, white pillows, a purple sash, a
green curtain and a gold sheet installed in Arnhem’s Mariendaal will be
represented photographically in counterpoint to her handmade sweaters,
dresses, necklaces and repossessed bird feathers. Also on display are
traditional bobbin lace works inspired by the tiled patterns of the
Miromesnil Metro station in Paris, rendered under the tutelage of New
York-via-Brussels sensei Marie Rose Delahaye. These painstakingly
handcrafted components of future attire provide a contrast to the spirit of
sidewalk detritus that informs and animates much of Hammen’s earthy and
intuitive couture, clothing that responds to reality as opposed to dogmatic
notions of “fashion.” Masks from an “Animal Farm” action at a birthday party
last summer in Mölnbo, Sweden will be shown, which by way of concealing
their wearers’ faces strive to disclose the inherent animal within. These
wearable art creations are arrayed around a crooked and weathered ten-foot
long stick discovered near Smith Street and W. 9th in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at
a liminal space it occupied with a mattress and other castoffs that
constitutes a King’s County doppelganger of the homeless-cum-chic bed
environment in Arnhem. Knowing it was a find since there are so few
substantial stray branches in New York, Hammen scoped it out for weeks, then
dressed it in a one-of-a-kind sewed coat “skin” before leaving it at its
original location to marinate on its way to becoming a sculpture at the
gallery. Fineness and grit mix effortlessly in these works, as does the
social and private and a yearning for clothes to reflect the true self. This
is art and raiment as unexpected surprise, complimenting the meditational
gratification of lace embroidery with the action, reaction and randomness of
unscripted social discourse. The magic of peoples’ stories heard and
incorporated into a stand-alone multi-disciplinary practice is especially
manifest in the collection of single cigarettes caged during short and
usually friendly interactions with strangers (“People who have the package
in their hands are the best”) that will be exhibited. An ethos of sharing,
trash appreciation, and exquisite craftsmanship comes together, and the
ad-hoc sleeping arrangements and often recycled materials so integral to
Hammen’s oeuvre are mirrored on the walls covered with cardboard and linen
and various bits of tape strategically placed on the floor. Also on view
will be Hammen’s films of birds flying in formation, Halloween parties, and
litter being buffeted by the wind. The evening will include musical
performances as well as interpretive hula dancing. A full-color, forty-page
catalogue published in conjunction with “Insieme” is available from Elk
Books.


Desirée Hammen was born in Breda, the Netherlands, in 1976, and studied at
the Artez Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. Besides working as an artist,
fashion designer and stylist, she has showed her creations at shows
organized by Ekovaruhuset/House of Organic in New York, and also with
Ekolab. She is a specialist in gold embroidery, and a member of the Dutch
collective Painted, in which along with core members Saskia van Drimmelen
and Margreet Sweerts she is involved with learning handcrafted techniques
that are utilized in collaborative projects realized in a sequential
back-and-forth between Holland and Bulgaria. This is her first exhibition in
New York.

Jocko Weyland

http://www.elkzine.com/gallery/
http://ikdesiree.blogspot.com/
http://www.paintedseries.com/

Made possible by the unerring support of BLOOD

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

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