Last week I received the statuette I won with my fashion show, and here it is. It’s called the Silver Spotlight. I did win several prices with contests, but I never won a real statuette, so I’m really happy with it.

Guys, I just got a call that I became second with my fashion show! I was certain I wasn’t going to be first, cause others were so much better, but I thought there also were so much better collections, that I knew I wasn’t going to be second, or third either! And now I am second! I mean, hello, the judges thought I did better than real Fashion Design students!

So it seems to be, that I was right about others that their shows were just too much. Some had a really really really good collection (so much better than mine), but the show wasn’t about fashion anymore (complete choreography, almost theater). They did really well, but I’m glad the judges thought it was too much, too.

So this will be like the 10th ‘Thank you’ to my models; THANKS!

Yep, I won another contest :) For a month you could send in your best personal outfit shots at ilovevintage.nl, a Dutch vintage webshop. They chose my outfit of February 23, and I won this €25 gift certificate for their webshop!

Send in your’s now too, for the month March. Another gift certificate to win!

I sent in 5 pictures in total, and they even chose 4 to put into their lookbook.

P.S. What a busy week for me right?

Yesterday was absolutely amazing! Really, what an experience to be together with about 50-60 people, all interested in fashion (design)! Wow.

OK, the day itself didn’t start THAT nice. I needed to get up at 06:00, to be at the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam at 11:00. So, at 07:37 I caught the bus, and about an hour later the train. The train arrived too late in Amsterdam, because of a delay. So I couldn’t catch the next train, to Amsterdam-Lelylaan, either.

Still, I walked to the platform, but like expected the train was gone. I saw two girls standing there, packed with overweight bags, which I thought had fabric in them. So I approached them, about the train, and about the workshop too actually. Gladly, they were also too late. Together we figured out which train to catch. So, we ended up at Schiphol (Amsterdam Airport), haha. We needed to get out the stop before, but there weren’t any signs we were already at Lelylaan, and there wasn’t a train announcement. At Schiphol, we took the next train back, walked about 10 minutes, and were finally where we needed to be, the World Fashion Center.

It looked better in real actually, the room was so large, this is just a really small part of it.

Most of the girls (and only one boy) were already there, on time, unlike us. We had to choose a sewing machine and all started to work on our designs. Although I have a map of about 30 designs, I picked the one that I came up with when I got up that morning, haha. I never seem to make anything I draw, only designs I suddenly come up with.

This fashion design student immediately caught my eye, gosh she looked wonderful! Too bad you can’t see her hair that well. The first part is white, second part green, and last part purple. You might think “What the hell?!”, but it looked gorgeous on her! The dress really reminded me of one of my own vintage floral dresses. It’s almost exactly the same print, right?

Some fashion design students, of Artez Arnhem, walked around to offer us help. After a few hours, we got the most delicious sandwiches, all with vegetables and cheese or meat. I picked one with cucumber, rucola and brie (French cheese). Although this sounds stupid, I was quite exited about that, cause I expected the normal kind of soft sandwiches with cheese or meat, but they looked really exclusive.

Another part of the space and another student. She actually taped her 15cm heels to her feet.

Then, after another while, we all got to meet Bas Kosters (Dutch couturier) in his studio, and he gave us all sorts of information about his own shows (which are anything but normal) and gave us tips what to think about at our final shows (for the Kunstbende). His studio is really small, but so amazing because of all the colors, and funny stuffed animals (which he makes himself), and even because of the mess. And, it’s on the 13th floor, with the most beautiful view all over Amsterdam! I also took a look in Mada van Gaans‘ studio, which was 6 times larger, and she was even there herself!

After the tour, I went back to Bas Kosters, and asked if I could take a shot of him in his studio. He’s such a nice person by the way. Too bad he took off his great cardigan, just before I asked.

At the end, all the finished designs were shown by some girls, in a some sort of runway show. Together with the girls I met in the morning, I went back home. They are also from Limburg (province), so are my opponents in the qualifying round!

And I need models! Models, models, models! Someone interested in walking the runway in one of my designs on March 30 in Sittard? I will probably walk too, but I will need at least one model for every 2 designs.

You don’t have to be a size 34/XS! A 36/S is great and if you’re tall, a 38 would work too! This is just for the experience and for ones that think it’s fun to do for a day, I’m not searching for paid models, cause I can’t afford that as a normal student.

Please e-mail me at contact@fashionfillers.com!

Yay, I’ve won another contest this week! An eighties or sixties styling contest, on Girlscene.nl. Girlscene’s a Dutch fashion website, a bit in blog-style, only not a personal but more a commercial blog. I wonder how many contestants joined, but there were hundreds of comments on the post about the contest, so I think there were many.

You needed to send in a 60’s OR 80’s outfit. I actually wanted to make a few shots, but because I didn’t have any time left, I made none. So I chose to send in some older picture, in hippie-60’s style. I could also send in an 80’s outfit, but I knew already every one was going to send in an 80’s picture of course.

I just read the comments on the post about the four winners, they all seemed to like my picture the most! That’s really great to hear! One girl commented she knew me because she’s going to the same school as I am and always loved my clothes. I really wonder who she is cause I didn’t quite expect even one person to like my style on my highschool. I checked out her profile but she didn’t put any personal pictures on it, I only know her first name; Eva. I don’t know somebody called ‘Eva’ actually.

And what I’ve won? A gift certificate of €50 to spend at Ilovevintage.nl, the most known Dutch vintage webshop.