Last Monday night, the Amsterdam International Fashion Week kicked of with all of Holland’s biggest celebrities seated frontrow at the Jan Taminiau show. Expectations were high, since Taminiau keeps on delivering great quality collections with dramatic dresses and superb couture techniques. As birds whistled soft tunes through the soundsystem right before the show, an airy and summery mood was set. When the first model stepped onto the runway, this mood was heightened.
Overall, the collection delivered what the audience wanted: dreamy and jawdropping dresses. But the day looks must not be forgotten, since they also felt new and very inspired. Either way, the collection was definetly worthy of the standing ovation it received.
Later that night, menswear designer Jeroen van Tuyl revealed his latest collection. The palette was simple: black, grey, white and one odd splash of red. But the designs themselves were not that simple at all. Van Tuyl showed elaborate fisherman’s pants that seemed to wrap around the leg and kimono-inspired jackets and shirts. Not that everything was complicated and over-designed: he also showed very desirable shorts, tops and one suit in particular with elbow length sleeves.
Van Tuyl’s collection was creative and right on par with what designers are doing in Paris and Milan. The quality of the fabric and cut was incredibly high, and it takes a man with little taste or imagination to not find anything appropriate for his own wardrobe on this runway.
