Flat textile shoes, designed and made by Jinsil (ElephantandChickpea) after a model on a 16th century painting by Giovanni Mansueti. Male balloon skirt: see message Dertig
Extremely wide and short balloon skirt with giant decorative bow. An amazing work by AnnySchoo, inspired by examples of formal European male clothing dating back to the 16th and 17th century.
AnnySchoo about her work: The hardest part of making this skirt was calculating the pleats. They could only be hand sewn to stitch such thickness of pleated fabric with stiff belt on. The huge bow gives the skirt a very extraordinary look.
Shoes: see Dertien Wide shirt: see Negentien
Photographer: Gonnie Meijer Location: near the village of Lixhe, Belgium
Larimeloom about her work: I invented these pants to create a manly skirt. Paul liked a long black wrap skirt I had made, so I thought I'd make "wrap pants", based on the same principle. In fact they work and look like two wrap skirts, attached together in the middle, one wrapping each leg. A sash is attached to the front, and one to the back, with long ties protruding. To wear the pants the sahshes protruding from the left side should be crossed and tied on the right side, and vice versa.
Photographer: Gonnie Meijer Location: near the village of Lixhe, Belgium
Neck object designed and made by Melissa Halvorson Renaissance-inspired shoes made by Gert Buurman Asymmetric pants and "sleeve-shirt" designed and made by myself
Photographer: Gonnie Meijer Location: near Kanne, Belgium
Something in between an artwork, two cartoons and a pair of shoes. But surprinsingly wearable. The texts are written in brown colour pencil on the lightweight red cedar wooden platform soles. On the the right shoe sole Look! Wooden shoes from Holland, the left one Het blok aan het been (typical Dutch proverb).
Maastricht, the town in which I was born and still live and work up to this very day, is mainly familiar with the detailed scale models that I make. Yet, those models are only a small part of my artistic output. More than anything else, I make installation art, objects and drawings. In addition, a large part of my work consists of designing exhibitions and other spatial work, with a special preference for dealing with complicated issues and ‘difficult’ locations. To a lesser extent, I touch upon the field of men’s fashion and photography. Occasionally, I create sound and light installations. Even though my work comes in a variety of expressions, themes and style show a highly unifying coherence, which can be defined as the relationship between people and their immediate environment. From the perspective of my humanist philosophy, I try to represent this theme in words and images with a peculiar humorous twist.
Some first steps toward the re-introduction of colourful and creative men's clothing, after two centuries dominated by black, grey, boring mass clothing. That is what Saaibestrijding is about. Often in cooperation with creative designers, makers, photographers and other enthusiastic people I try to trace new paths in male clothing. I am not a fashion designer. Not at all. My mother considered it necessary for her son that he learned how to use a sewing machine, but it was the central theme of my artwork that made me curious about, for example, the custom of lots of western men to wear ties around their neck. An extremely weird habit if you think further about it.
The Saaibestrijding project wants to inspire, to encourage everybody to leave the rude dictatorship of the fashion industry and its commercial power behind. Everybody is creative. You are not? No problem: There's no copyright on Saaibestrijding. Feel free to use my ideas and designs to copy them, to be inspired by them, to distribute them on the internet wherever you want.