In pictures: The "Shape Shifters" of 2018's Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week, the international platform seeking to present innovation in the design industry, took place last week in The Netherlands, and this did not disappoint. Each year a selection of recently graduated art students from around the world travel to The Netherlands to present their designs, collaborations, and more.

This year’s section of the design week titled, “Modebelofte”, which will going forward be known as “New Order of Fashion” was themed “Shape Shifters”. Participating designers strive for autonomy, imagination and experiment for the ways in which we express our identity, according to the description of the exhibition. "They answer a fundamental human need to transform themselves," said Dutch Design Week.

Dutch Design Week 2018

Designers that participated included Sinéad O'Dwyer, Kota Okuda, Floyd Hogan. Yuting Zhu, Ling Feng ZHU, Pierre-Louis Auvray, Emma Wessel, Anna Dorian Studio PMS, Stina Edge City, Marie Sloth Rousing, Chien Hsiang Hung, Axel Backlund, Stefan Kartchev, Savanah Avery, River Renjie Wang, Alicia Minnaard, Matilda Söderberg, Juha Vehmaanperä Paolo Carzana and Lieselot Elzinga. Ecco Leather and Kobe worked with Kira and Goodney duo AnoukxVera.

Photos: Dutch Design Week/ Modebelofte