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Fashion designer Alexander van Slobbe (1959) can be regarded as the founder of what since then has been generally referred to as Dutch Modernism. He graduated with honours from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design, and is teaching fashion design there since more than ten years. Together with Sayone Daan, he is the head of the Fashion Department since 2003.
In 1989 Van Slobbe and Nannet van der Kleijn founded the internationally renowned label Orson+Bodil. This woman’s wear label combined a conceptual perspective with sober and pure aesthetics. Important innovations were a new language of shapes, new production technologies and the use of materials such as nylon. One of the dominant intentions of Orson+Bodil was the crossover of fashion beyond the... [more]
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