Twan Meijerink
'To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul’ is a sentence from The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It revealed to me a method to maintain your own happiness.
Cold Love, I'm Cold Love
By Twan Meijerink, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
'To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul’ is a sentence from The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It revealed to me a method to maintain your own happiness. This charming, but rather selfish thought, left me with a feeling of cold love.
Cold love became an image that formed my collection. I linked it to influences of the nineties and sixteenth century menswear. I wanted to work with different shades of blue and hard cold-feeling materials such as plastic, metal and stone versus classical luxury materials like wool and silk-velvet. I developed a classical tartan in which one colour is replaced by nylon thread in order create transparent squares and a structured fabric.
My collection has to please the person who wears it. He should feel dressed up and charming, but comfortable at the same time. I want people to think more abstract about their choice of clothes. Therefore, I avoid visible sartorial details such as collars, cuffs, pockets and closures to force people only to like a garment for its shape, colour, texture and fit. I hope people will forget about male or female, sporty or chic and so on.
Download catwalk pictures of the collection by Peter Stigter
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