Matthijs Boelee, the current head of Fashion Design at Artez, is retiring, Artez announced in a press release. Sanne Schepers will take over from Boelee from the new 2025-2026 academic year. She graduated from Artez in 2011 and was a student of Boelee. Boelee has 40 years of experience in fashion and art education, 35 of which were at Artez....
May 21, 2025
Traditionally, fashion companies designed and sold their clothing in their own country, but produced it in low-wage countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia or Myanmar. This way of working has existed since the 1960s and became especially popular in the 1990s. The goal was to produce as cheaply as possible. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building...
Apr 25, 2025
As the class of 2024 completes their academic journey in becoming fashion professionals, ArtEZ University of the Arts recently showcased the graduates' final collections with huge success. Stepping into the fashion industry, those collections play a crucial role for graduates to expand their network and share their work. As the international B2B...
Jun 14, 2024
On Friday June 7, the ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design presented its 2024 graduates at the school’s annual student fashion show. This year’s show, entitled ‘Generation 66’, took place at the ArtEZ campus in Arnhem, Netherlands. The student show consisted of four parts, one for each study year of the programme. The first-year students were up...
Jun 11, 2024
As the class of 2023 completes their academic journey in becoming fashion professionals, ArtEZ University of the Arts recently showcased the graduates' final collections with huge success. Stepping into the fashion industry, those collections play a crucial role for graduates to expand their network and share their work. As the international B2B...
Jun 29, 2023
The Academy of Art and Design at the Dutch institution ArtEZ University of the Arts held its first live fashion show in three years on June 2, 2023. The fourth year students of the bachelor in fashion design at ArtEZ, 70 years after the programme was founded, presented their collections at the Musis theatre in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The...
Jun 14, 2023
What do two seemingly unrelated subjects such as fungi and fashion have to do with each other? According to Chet Bugter, the new head of the master’s course Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts, a lot, actually! For him and Alia Mascia, a second-year master’s participant in the Critical Fashion Practices course, it is high...
May 31, 2023
After nine years at ArtEZ Charlott Bik, director Art & Design Arnhem, is leaving the institute. She announces her leave in an email. A new director has not been namen, but a search for a ‘suitable’ succesor is going to start soon, states the message. Bik will leave the institute on the 31st of august. She will move to the Willem de Kooning...
May 28, 2018
Dutch designer Johannes Offerhaus, who was awarded the prestigious Frans Molenaar Couture Award last year, presented his new collection ‘An Experiment with Parabolas’ at Studio 8 in Amsterdam. The new collection, which sees the young designer continue to experiment with shape and form, is inspired by the parabola as Offerhaus takes a...
Nov 20, 2017
With effect from September 1, 2017, Pascale Gatzen has been appointed the new head of the fashion design master’s programme at ArtEZ University of arts. A media statement from the university said that among the challenges facing Gatzen, an alumnus of the fashion department, is developing a completely new curriculum/programme for the master’s and...
Sep 15, 2017
The fashion students of ArtEZ School of Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, presented their graduation collections. This year, 19 students graduated from the bachelor's degree in Fashion Design. The catwalkshow took place in the Musis in Arnhem. Anna Anastazija Celic Monique de Bruin Christina Sotiropoulou Nine Parre Joséphine van Mastrigt Maria...
Jun 9, 2017
17 third-year fashion design students of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, presented the nineteenth edition of ‘Collectie Arnhem’. In addition to designing the collection they gain experience in all the different aspects of the fashion industry. The collection was made completely in yellow, a limitation that offered the...
Mar 16, 2017
