Nora Veerman

COLLAB | Modemuzelab 🪡 Wat is zelfmaakmode? Die vraag stond centraal tijdens een inspirerende Modemuze-dag in de @museumfabriek ! Samen met onderzoeker en modejournalist @nora.veerman en conservator Astrid Hage doken we in de rijke geschiedenis van zelfmaakmode in de 20ste eeuw. Van zelfgemaakte kleding tot digitale 360° foto’s: we ontdekten hoe deze onderbelichte objecten nieuwe perspectieven bieden op maken, dragen, onderzoeken en verzamelen. Dank aan Nora voor de organisatie en haar boeiende onderzoek, de @museumfabriek voor de gastvrijheid en alle deelnemers voor de mooie gesprekken! ✨ #zelfmaakmode #modemuze #museumfabriek

Met borduren kun je alle kanten op. Kruissteken zetten op een kussensloop, kunst maken op een T-shirt, vlekken verbergen onder bloemen of lantaarnpalen: met een paar basissteken kan er al een hoop. 🪡🧵Je kunt een patroon gebruiken, maar ook losgaan met vormen, kleuren en materialen (kralen! takken! plastic!). Zin om een avond te experimenteren met een kop thee en goed gezelschap, of heb je nog een borduurproject liggen waar je mee verder wilt? Kom op woensdagavond 8 april naar de handwerkavond in @de_wollen_gymzaal ! Buurtbewoner en handwerkexpert @nora.veerman is aanwezig voor tips en begeleiding, en materialen liggen klaar. Kom je liever breien, haken of naaien? Ook helemaal welkom. Praktische info: Woensdag 8 april, 18.30-21.30 De Wolle Gymzaal, Tweede Oosterparkstraat 227 Gratis & geschikt voor alle niveaus

This is me looking back on a year where I learned so! many! things! about! knitting! Made hats and cloths, a fish and a first cardigan, tried my hand at cables (easier than they look) and all kinds of jazzy colourwork. And of course unraveled countless hours of precious work because I messed up somewhere in row 3 💖💖💖 Absolute highlight: a couture knitting class with @loretkarman @nadieborggreve and the knitting team involved in @duranlantinkyo ’s FW25 collection - a session that REALLY got me into sampling, something I used to view as a bit of a boring necessity. No more! 2026 will be samples galore!! patterns/projects, swipe for current WIP 🦦 1. soft hearted bonnet by @wooladdicts 2. a world of possibilities. samples by @loretkarman 3 + 4. @rows_knitwear drift jacket 5. @rows_knitwear anni cloth 6. tilkku beanie by @lumimimosa 7. tweed knitting sample ft. hand painted needle pouch 8. rybka pouch by @ratandseawitch 9. anni cloth 2 @rows_knitwear 10 + 11. @duranlantinkyo special cables 12 + 13. late night colour sample + results. hat pattern by Lindsay Ingram 14. 📶

FashionClash 2025!! Three weeks ago already (posting with a lag as I’ve been travelling) but still reminiscing. I’ve been to @fashionclash_festival multiple times and every time @brankopopovic , @elspetit.carapiet and team prove to possess an exceptional eye for what’s going on in fashion, or rather, what SHOULD be going on - in the form of new practices that feel critical, playful and hopeful. I thought the exihibition at Bureau Europa, titled New Fashion Narratives, was especially strong this year. I loved how concrete and viable the ‘new narratives’ presented felt. Not just ideas and ideals, but tested projects strongly connected to local communities and land. A fully functional grassroots repair kiosk, embroidery made during cross-cultural workshops, and desirable, wearable clothes (ok not sure how long the scoby corset would hold up but for the look I’d be curious to try!) Also had good fun moderating a panel discussion on sustainability, craft and innovation with @kinkleid @jefmontes @studiowolfs and trying out @kimgemm ‘s modular dressing ‘game’ - resolved to do more draping ✂️ New Fashion Narratives curators: @rafaelkouto @dis.paula @jonaszitter @tjerrelucasbijker Panel discussion photo: @lauraknipsael

When I first heard about @modemuze.nl , I was a 21-year-old art history student, dying to dive into fashion research but unsure where to start. I remember reading about Modemuze in a paper at my parents’ kitchen table and thinking: now THIS will be exciting. Over the past 10 years, I spent countless hours scrolling through Modemuze’s database of fashion and costume collections, to find examples and sources, or just to have fun and be bewildered. I read blogs, wrote blogs, went to talks and events, met so many people with whom I could share my love for garments. We ended up collaborating on the Fashion Studies minor at the @uva_amsterdam , which enters its 7th year this week. Last Monday at @amsterdammuseum , we celebrated 10 years of Modemuze and the launch of Unlocking Fashion Heritage, which involves 100 objects becoming available in an inmersive 360 degree digital view. Happy birthday Modemuze - grateful you exist and for everyone who’s made you into what you are ♥️

went to see ‘M&Others: Fashion & Motherhood’ at @modemuseum_hasselt in the nick of time! It was gripping, one of those exhibitions that just unfolds and unfolds, showing the many layers (and often tensions) in the relation between fashion and motherhood. There were clothes made by mothers and for mothers, with built-in feeding bras or built-in milk stains; with beadwork alluding to bleeding nipples, or embroidery referring to femicide. There was a series of dresses by Thebe Magugu honouring mothers of nine cultures in South Africa, and a series of fairytale prints showing mums and daughters in matching Jeanne Lanvin (who was herself a mother figure in many ways). In fashion, clearly, mothers have been makers, models, mentors, muses, monsters. what a hassle. what immense creative power. favourite discovery was that Yves Saint Laurent used to make paper dolls from his mother’s magazines as a teenager, which I also used to frantically do as a child, though mine are… somewhat less sophisticated (might share one day, might not) 1. Lanvin, date unknown 2. Pregnancy fits by Olivier Rousteing for Jean Paul Gaultier couture, FW22, and Di Petsa, SS23 3. Feeding dress, 1815-1820 (spot the tiny hook) 4. Di Petsa, FW22 5. Pearls? Milk drops? Tulle! Simone Rocha, SS22 5. Breast leak top by Di Petsa, SS25 6. A lifeline cut: embroidery commenting on femicide, Elina Chauvet and Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior Cruise ‘24 7. Thebe Magugu’s ‘Basotho’ dress from the ‘Heritage’ series, 2024 8. Yves Saint Laurent’s paper dolls 💘 cc @karen_vangodtsenhoven @eve_demoen @modemuseum_hasselt

Amsterdam Fashion Week!! A tempestuous start and a stormy finish for sure, with many radiant moments in between. Here’s a few highlights 🌤️ 1-3. @martan.official with a collection called Tempest Tides, inspired by the wild seas and made of repurposed hotel linen (which has a superb sway to it). want to wear. 4. went for a pirate-y look meself 🪝 5. an excerpt from @tessvanzalinge ’s collection Momentum. for a title that points to the fleeting, this collection felt wonderfully grounded, thanks to solid craftsmanship and rich referencing (a.o. to tailoring and Dutch regional dress traditions) 6-8. …and thanks the shoes of course, the flattest of the flattest: barefoot shoes by De Trek. bags, however, were airy, made of glass and see-through crystals. phewww 9. details!! 10. SILHOUETTE. by @yousrarazinemahrah at @lichtingnl 11. sound on for this one. very delicate. @drs.oooo @lichtingnl 12. wore a completely self-made outfit on friday wajo 13. Ronald Snijders opening @denzelveerkamp . I played the flute for 7 years as a kid and never even knew it could be played like this. fire 14-18. I’d been looking forward to see Denzel’s show after the huge amount of research he’s been doing on the Afro-Surinamese koto and techniques for folding and stiffening fabric. the latter were applied to contemporary, used garments a.o. materials, with stunning effect. collection, atmosphere, set and sound design - they formed a firm critique of colonialism and at the same time a celebration of Suriname and of cultural interaction & transformation. can’t wait for what’s to come. 19. stormy but this time not metaphorically @amsterdamfashionweek

In the ‘actually quite cool things I never posted about’ category: I knit some clothes over the last 12 months! A hat, a pair of socks for J, something apparently called a ‘shrug’ (which is great for actual shrugging) and a shockingly pink vest. Now making a top. Guess you could say I’m hooked. I worked on the socks and hat at @knits.n.notes - joining a knitting club has been such a joy!! K&N is celebrating its first birthday on Saturday at @tolhuistuin , socks and hat will be on view as part of an exhibition, in case you’re curious to see my dramatic change in knitting tension between the first sock and the second. Got photographed in hat and socks for the occasion by lovely @skulskyte , styling by @rosasierraxoxomol , lots of other bts work by @sophiawintermans ✨

kleren kleren kleren in wol steen hout metaal o nee wacht toch olieverf 1. Orlier-altaarstuk, ca. 1475 2. De Bron der Eeuwige Jeugd, ca. 1440 3. Issenheim-altaarstuk, 1516 4. Grafreliëf van ridder Hans Ulrich van Huis Issenheim, ca. 1340

Mirror Mirror: Fashion and the Psyche at @momuantwerp 💖 How do we relate to our human bodies through clothes? How are these bodies reflected by other bodies of our own production - notably, mannequins, dolls and avatars? Questions like these are discussed in Mirror Mirror through fashion as well as art, placed within an enchanting scenography of windows, mirrors and screens - things that usually mediate the gaze upon ourselves and others ✨🪞✨ 👏🏼 curator @elisadewyngaert and team @momuantwerp ! P.S. Also seeing Margiela’s first barbie (last picture) was a thrill!? Look at those wide lapels, the tiny cigarette shoulders, the visible stitches 🍬

Lovely visit to Hasselt 1,5 weeks ago to visit exhibitions DressUndress at @modemuseum_hasselt and Fitting In at @z33be . 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 DressUndress, with beautiful work by a.o. Sinéad O’Dwyer, Esmay Wagemans and Richard Quinn, and lots of personal stories in video and audio. Would have liked more discourse on the why, what, when and who of it all. Why cover some parts of the body, and reveal or emphasize others, at a specific place or point in time? And who decides? 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 Finally saw ‘Henk’, the third film by Lisa Konno and Sarah Blok, as part of Fitting In. Also stitched a sequin onto the soft beige hand of a bodysuit (uncanny!!) and walked through halls covered in photographs and textiles by Alia Ali. Affective, constructive, inspiring.

echt wel een kleurrijk weekend 🌈 1 + 2 Prachtig borduurwerk van @klaasrommelaere en madams bij galerie @madevankrimpen_ 3 + 4 + 5 Opening van de tentoonstelling Icons bij @factor_ij met @_____k.t.h._____ @janice.deul @carmenschabracq @michim_michelle @thecountess.official en @ankevromen 6 + 7 Zeefdrukles van Esther @zeefdrukles.nl