In Pictures: ArtEZ students present collection during Paris Fashion Week

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Klaudia Stavreva and Lotte van Dijk, who both graduated from ArtEZ fashion academy in Arnhem, The Netherlands, presented their collection in Paris at the Atelier Anglais during Paris Fashion Week. Both presented their highly personal visions on the future of fashion and femininity.

Klaudia Stavreva, originally from Macedonia, presented her collection BOSSTVRVA. Inspired by the Sworn Virgins of Albania, women who assume the life and rights of a man, vowing not to marry or have children, she proposed a new, inverted way of power dressing. Modified garments, shapes and embellishments reference classic menswear, workwear, military dress, and Macedonian folkloric dress.

Lotte van Dijk, from the Netherlands, based her collection on the way painters depict textiles. The bold and striking brushstrokes of Marlene Dumas inspired van Dijk to start her process by painting large images of garments including floral dresses, denim pieces, lace gowns and army coats. These paintings were used to create her bold silhouettes, painted on top of the final garments or translated into jacquards.

The collections are on display until Sunday March 5 in the Atelier Néerlandais.

The ArtEZ fashion design master aspires to educate fashion professionals who from a highly personal fascination, critically interrogate their own unique handwriting as fashion makers in relationship to the current design discourse to seek out both their relevance and their additional value through research and design.

Images: J.W. Kaldenbach