Fashion & Architecture

Fashionable construction

Fashion and architecture often share common ground yet the collaboration between fashion designers and architects is still but a youthful figure of a field. This exhibition at the Amsterdam Centre of Architecture (ARCAM) takes a look at what happens when the two disciplines combine expertise.

Common ground

Both disciplines involve designing creations that protect while being a delight to behold and draw on principles of construction and selecting materials from an ever-growing range of possibilities.

Design duos

The competition behind this exhibition unites fashion and architecture. ARCAM, Ontfront and V2A Architectuur & Stedebouw challenged four daring duos to team up in the design process and draw on their partner's talent to conceive an innovative design.

Meet the teams

The teams are:
- Iris van Herpen & Jan Benthem and Mels Crouwel (Benthem Crouwel Architekten)
- Mattijs van Bergen (MATTIJS) & Anouk Vogel (Anouk Vogel landscape architecture)
- Farida Sedoc (Hosselaer) & Nicole and Marc Maurer (Maurer United)
- Kentroy Yearwood (Intoxica) & Jeroen Bergsma (2012Architecten)

Catch the results of this unique experiment at Fashion and Architecture at ARCAM from 17 July to 11 September.