Sketches

During the golden age, painters such as Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Jan Steen and many others brought life to art. Although these painters did not all live in the same place, they all aspired to the Baroque movement. An irregularly shaped pearl.

 (The meaning of Baroque) 

 

Frans Hals was one of the 17th-century painters and created: ‘The laughing cavalier’, one of the most famous paintings in the world that is in London today (Museum Wallace Collection) There is depth generated in the painting of my choice. The symbolic meaning behind the various symbols, to which your attention is drawn. The sleeve, where symbols like flames, bees and flower are part of, makes the painting not to be considered from afar but purely up close. Forming a deeper connection with yourself, expressing what is inside. By radiating an oasis of calmness but inside lies much complexity. 

 

I make a collection where emotion plays a big part, when you wear a design your feelings are protected from the hade outside world. There are little excesses that are insurmountable, that make you what you are. You have a big heart, which drones on and on, till its last breath. Be grateful to it and stay true to it. Know that you and only you acknowledge yourself.

 

Frans Hals became famous for his loose brushstrokes and vivid portraits, but also for his militia paintings such as the ‘Skinny Company’. For my collection, titled: Le Pinceau d'Or, The Laughing Cavalier (Figure 2) serves as the main inspiration, especially a specific part of it. I focus on the openings that reveal the underlying garments and symbolic elements. Furthermore, Schiaparelli's haut couture elements and Robert Wun's pleats helped considerably in the design process.