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Color bomb, paint in different styles, different techniques.
Beautiful color palette. Smart, awesome and beautiful
use of fabrics and their techniques.

Owwww BOY you will fall in love …
with the spring/summer collections for the next year.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DETAILS… AGAIN!

This upcoming weeks you can expect updates, a glimpse of creation
and a little bit of the inside thoughts of your creative journalist’s head
But I won’t tell you all the secrets…

CIFF KIDS Copenhagen was really worth to pay a visit!
I love the way it’s been set up.
Interior upstairs and the clothing brands,
shoes, accessoires downstairs.
Very scandinavian clean and organised,
which has my preference in chaos.

I have one critical note;
(for the brands, not CIFF KIDS)
For press it’s not always a warm bath at some brands.
Because there are a lot of agents representing
instead of the designers themselves.
If you don’t buy you’re not very interesting for them,
which I think is a slightly shalow thought.
Especially when there is no-one at your booth.
it’s kind of weird…
Yes there are people really interested without expecting…

However… I’ve learned and it confirmed my thoughts…
Now I know for sure
why I’m so much more interested
in the designer, the creator.
Because we connect.
I really understand their passion,
their drive, the way they see the world
and why they want to make it better, nicer, cooler.

I had a very nice chat with CRLNBSMNS
and Vicky Wang from ONCE (Taiwan)
Which made it worth anyway.
Their passion for both their brand is beyond!

Caroline Bosmans is, in my opinion, a visionaire.
People from the kids fashion industry should study her work,
so they can learn what it’s really about.

SOMEDAY SOON and WOLF & RITA
are really my favourites for the dudes!
Every season they surprise us.
And they grow solid and inspire big time!

THE DESIGNERS/CREATORS RULES
and we’re lucky to work with them.

AND BOY OWWW BOY…
I was so touched by a short movie/clip directed by Achim Lippoth.
Amazingly beautifully poeticly filmed.
Yes, with even one tear running down my cheek.

Keep your eyes open.
You can learn so much from the designers,
directors and creators!
They will show you the real beauty.

Photography: #thecoolheadsoninsta
With the best prop ever,
the cover of KID’S WEAR
by Achim Lippoth

p.s.
there are some shop-owners which are more a
curator-businesslady-stylist-visionaire…
Like my friend Anne Postrach from TINY things for kids Berlin.
Very inspiring lovely lady. Check her very cool Berlin based store

A four letter word is all you need to know:
It starts with a “Z” and ends with an “A”
…
Wild guess…

ZARA

WE LOOVVVVVEEEEEE
THEIR NEW AW15 CAMPAIGN

It’s all about the details…
The set with the wood and the denim-ish look-and-feel.
Flashlight which gives brightness
combined with the toned colors of the cool designs…

AWESOME!!!

We have a guess who shot this campaign but we’re not quite sure yet…
Google isn’t very helpful,
and the photographer’s agency is not showing it yet
as Zara Kids on IG either ; )

We show you only the boys…
since we think we have to stay focussssssed, haha!
Although you have to check the girls
(our very cool girls)

And owwwwww how much we LOVEEEEE this fall
brilliant color bomb…

Minimalistic in a way, but the combination with
camel, bordeaux/orange-ish, dark blue and denim
makes it all very classy.
Big wanna have for #ourdudes and #allthedudes

Bring it on…
cause with the strange weather in Amsterdam,
we can already wear it!
YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!
…

Photography: we will update asap 😉

UPDATE August 28th, 2015:
I knew it!!!
It’s photographer Mark Shearwood!

#ijmcolour

#achimlippothsselection #kidswearmagazine

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It’s been a very crazy hectic year. Juggling between private life, work,
the kids and writing/photography…

Unfortunately I had to cancel Playtime Paris for the first time
to give me some air. It did…
Although I really missed catching up with the cool brands
and the lovely curators with their cool stores.

But that made it possible to pay a quick visit
to our local kids fair ‘de kleine fabriek’,
in our own city Amsterdam.
The entrance was awesome! It was like I walked into a
gigantic stationary/packaging-store.
Absolutely loved it!!!! A big surprise!
#entrance #kleinefabriek #SS16

I only had a few hours to walk through the fair. If so, I think strategic…
For sure start at the HTNK-booth.
Always new passionate designers, so very interesting for me.

But I really love that I’ve bumped into Alice of cool SWEARHOUSE,
straight away. It made my day…
Because we’re ‘tees & sweats addicts’, her brand suits us.
Her sweaters are the coolest. Made by hand, piece by piece.
Non-seasonal, we loooovveeee that!!!
[ssssstttt… you will hear from us… ; )
and if you have girls…
awesome new wannahave
#dresses and #pompom hairbands]

Next to her booth I’ve met MAKII,
founded by Idris and Mielo.
Two illustrators from Rotterdam.
They’ve designed postcards, posters etc.
But what I really loved were their gigantic coloring posters.
And yes we know some brands who also have this in their collections.
However, the idea behind this version is something I really like.
Besides the gigantic poster there are 5 invitations
you can send to your friends,
so you can color together on a rainy afternoon.
Or a nice idea for a birthdayparty maybe?
[Anyway, check it out!
Thanks to Kristi : )]

And my heart goes #BOOM
when I enter the always brilliant booth of IJMcolour.
First meet ‘positive vibes’ Simone, so lovely to meet!
And then… yeah I have to say (it’s sounds like I’m a groupie, haha),
but I admire the work of creative master Frank Visser.
ALWAYS INSPIRING, NEW, FRESH & SURPRISING.
How much I would love to work with them…
You will hear from them soon,
because they’re working on a new book
which I think will be a coffeetable-book…
A big wannahave!
[keepyouposted]

And as ‘the cherry on the cake’,
when I walked out of the fair heading home…
Another #myheartgoesboom…
Achim Lippoth’s small selections
of his favourites of 40!!! issues
of his KIDS WEAR’ magazine.

I didn’t miss it [not only in Paris]… they came to me…
THANK YOU!

#happy #thankyou #kleinefabriek
#ijmcolour #frankvisser #kidswearmagazine
#swearhouse #makii

Photography: #thecoolheadsoninsta