Pattern Place

On Sunday 24 May, we are hosting a workshop, Image Observation and Garment Translation, in collaboration with artist Joke Robaard (11:00 - 17:30).  There are 6 workshop spots available. Fee: 15 euros. Sign up via: [email protected] This workshop will start with a presentation by Joke Robaard and will work from a selection of images from her archive ‘Archive Intersections’ of fashion and newspaper images and texts that she has collected since 1977 until the present.  Image Observation and Garment Translation is a workshop format developed by Pattern Place. In every workshop, participants are invited to draw patterns intuitively based on garments represented in fashion images. Intuitively made patterns are not intended to be precise and calculated shapes to be neatly assembled (like those in the fashion industry). Instead, intuitive pattern making is an invitation to reinterpret and adapt garments on fashion pages through one’s own body and perspective. There are 6 workshop spots available. Fee: 15 euros. Sign up via: [email protected] Location: @amsterdam.warehouse Warehouse Sint Jansstraat 51, Amsterdam Identity and graphic design @lejlavala Pattern Place is supported by @stimuleringsfonds

We’re happy to invite you to the official opening of Pattern Place, a project by @anouksbeckers and @alevvarisco grounded in a shared obsession for (paper) patterns. On Friday, 22 May, we are launching the first issue of PP magazine (18:00 - 21:00), with a talk at 19:00 by Pattern Place and graphic designer @lejlavala Moderated by Tanveer Ahmed. Pattern Place Magazine is a modular publication developed as part of this project. The magazine unfolds into a pattern made intuitively, accompanied by an introduction text about PatternPlace as a critical fashion project. The text explains how pattern making is a tactic and the pattern a tool that can be interpreted from a personal and intuitive perspective. This issue also publishes the text ‘Garment Resurrected - Zombies Deflected’ @femkedvrs and ‘Un-Mastering the Pattern’ by Tanveer Ahmed.  This first issue is published in 13 variations, all sharing a pattern made intuitively during a Pattern Place workshop @modestraat_amsterdam For this workshop, Image Observation and Garment Translation, we started with selecting images from the Vogue September issue 2025. These images were translated during the workshop into a set of paper patterns. Many thanks to: Ada, Ana, Bo, Brittany, Femke, Floortje, Lois, Mania, Nienke, Robin, Robin, Youngeun and Zeina.  Graphic design @lejlavala Pattern Place is made with the support of @stimuleringsfonds

We’re happy to invite you to the official opening of Pattern Place, a project by @anouksbeckers and @alevvarisco grounded in a shared obsession for (paper) patterns. On Friday, 22 May, we are launching the first issue of PP magazine (18:00 - 21:00), with a talk at 19:00 by Pattern Place and graphic designer @lejlavala Moderated by Tanveer Ahmed. On Sunday, 24 May, we are hosting a workshop, Image Observation and Garment Translation, in collaboration with artist Joke Robaard (11:00 - 17:30). There are 6 workshop spots available; fee: 15 euros. Sign up via: [email protected] Pattern Place is a space that invites engagement with pattern making to critically investigate the fashion industry. You are invited to join us through a variety of activities, ranging from practice-based research to workshops, presentations and publishing. Pattern Place is made with the support of @stimuleringsfonds

Pattern Place identity is build from playful P’s 🅿️🅿️ many thanks to @lejlavala for working with us on this! Slide 3: P from Alfabeto per asciugamani 1954 Rakam. Riviste di moda e lavori femminili, January 1954, Year XXV, issue 1.

Pattern Place Magazine in process 💝 soon this publication on DIY fashion will be ready✨ including patterns translating images from Vogue 2025 September issue made by PP workshop participants at @modestraat_amsterdam 💌 More info about the launch soon! Graphic design @lejlavala 🧚🏼‍♀️ Pattern Place Magazine is made with support of @stimuleringsfonds

What do you make of this? A dress In 1997 Rei Kawakubo published the sewing pattern of a garment from the Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body collection in issue no. 20 of Visionaire magazine curated by Comme des Garçons. The issue was published in a limited edition of 2800 copies. (For more info on Visionaire check out @saulmarcadent book “Publishing as Curating. Design and Imagery in Contemporary Fashion Magazines”, 2021) We have been so lucky to handle one of these issue; we traced the pattern and made the garment re-activating this archive content into a dress 🌟🌟 @anouksbeckers @alevvarisco

💖 We are happy to invite you tomorrow, Thursday 11 Dec, for the talk Image Observation and Garment Translation by @pattern.place with @alevvarisco & @anouksbeckers Pattern Place is a project by Alessandra Varisco & Anouk Beckers that comes from a shared obsession for paper patterns. It is a playground, a (counter)-archive and library of materials related to pattern making. It’s also a learning environment that is constantly re-activated by hosting workshops and other activities such as this talk at Warehouse projectspace:
  Thursday 11 December 2025 Sint Jansstraat 51, Amsterdam
19:00 - 21:00
Talk: 19:30 During the talk Alessandra & Anouk will introduce Pattern Place and elaborate further on the workshop Image Observation and Garment Translation that they hosted on 6 Dec @modestraat_amsterdam . In this workshop, participants were invited to experiment with the method of intuitive pattern making to reveal and translate a garment represented in a fashion image into a paper pattern. The fashion images used in this workshop were collected from the Vogue September issue 2025.

Intuitive pattern making is a playful way of designing clothes whereby no specific level of knowledge and experience in pattern making is needed. With this approach, the project addresses topics such as representation of bodies, normative fit, measuring tapes and rulers as restrictive tools, authorship, creativity, skills and ways of making clothes. Poster design @lejlavala Pattern Place is generously supported by @stimuleringsfonds ✨

Intuitive Pattern making workshop @modestraat_amsterdam 🫶 We invited @femkedvrs for a presentation about the fashion magazine as myth-making-machine. We talked about the project A Magazine Reader, her research on text and animals in fashion media and about the distance between garments and real bodies in fashion magazines - making a jump to @pattern.place that restores and challenges the relation between the readers body and the represented garment. Asking us the question: ‘Photos of garments in fashion magazines aren’t real garments, as in; you can’t wear them… Or can you?’ Thank you Femke for sharing your inspiring ideas and critical reflections with us 💝 & many thanks for joining us in the workshop ✨ @anatomimori @zeina_alvarado @floortje_wijnands @robinia_kersten @brittanyt.design @przytulniee @tricot_de_bo @boshango @sohnyoungeun @doorloiz @femkedvrs and Nuno, Nienke, Ada & Robin! This project is generously supported by @stimuleringsfonds ✨

Saturday 6 December, we hosted an intuitive pattern making workshop @modestraat_amsterdam 🫶 We invited @femkedvrs for a presentation about the fashion magazine as myth-making-machine. We talked about the project A Magazine Reader, about her research on text and animals in fashion media and about the distance between garments and real bodies in fashion magazines - making a jump to @pattern.place that restores and challenges the relation between the readers body and the represented garment. For this workshop, Image Observation Garment Translation, we started with selecting images from the Vogue September issue 2025. These images were translated during the working into a set of paper patterns. Soon these patterns will be available for you again to use in a DIY fashion publication we will develop from this workshop. Many thanks for joining us ✨ @anatomimori @zeina_alvarado @floortje_wijnands @robinia_kersten @brittanyt.design @przytulniee @tricot_de_bo @boshango @sohnyoungeun @doorloiz @femkedvrs and Nuno, Nienke, Ada & Robin! And thank you @modestraat_amsterdam for having us 💝 This project is generously supported by @stimuleringsfonds

A glimpse into the visual identity process for @pattern.place ; exploring shapes, patterns, and lots of playful P’s. Loved building this together with and for @anouksbeckers & @alevvarisco More soon! ✂️ Slide 6; P from Alfabeto per asciugamani 1954 Rakam. Rivista di moda e lavori femminili, January 1954, Year XXV, Issue 1. Slide 11: P from fairEnough 2024 “fairEnough is a collectively made typeface, all characters are chosen and drawn by the participants during a workshop host by Xiaoyuan Gao. The workshop was part of the programmes of Graphic Design Fair host by @nieuweinstituut @naibooksellers “

We nodigen je graag uit voor een workshop intuïtief patroon maken op Zaterdag 6 december @modestraat_amsterdam 10.30 - 17.00 Adres: Buikslotermeerplein 15, 1025 ES Amsterdam In deze workshop, Image Observation and Garment translation, werken we met de methode intuïtief patroon maken. Gebruik je creativiteit en intuïtie, zowel als beginner of ervaren maker. We bekijken eerst modefoto’s uit Vogue september issue. Vervolgens maken we een intuïtief patroon van de kledingstukken die je op deze beelden ziet. De workshop begint met een presentatie door @femkedvrs over een methode waarin modetijdschriften worden onderzocht en Femke’s ervaring met het project A Magazine Reader dat deze workshop inspireerde. De workshop wordt georganiseerd door @anouksbeckers & @alevvarisco Ticketprijs workshop 6 december: 15 € // Stadspas: 6€ Als onderdeel van de workshop, krijg je een publicatie met jouw intuïtieve patronen. Er zijn 10 plaatsen beschikbaar. Aanmelden via: [email protected] — Op donderdag 11 december worden de workshop resultaten gepresenteerd @amsterdam.warehouse 19:00 - 21:00 (gesprek begint om 19:30) Presentatie door @anouksbeckers & @alevvarisco De workshop en presentatie zijn een onderdeel van Pattern Place, een project dat de modelindustrie kritisch onderzoekt. Pattern Place is een project van @anouksbeckers & @alevvarisco Pattern Place wordt ondersteund door @stimuleringsfonds Grafisch ontwerp en visuele identiteit door @lejlavala (English text in the previous post)

We are happy to invite you to an intuitive pattern making workshop Saturday 6 Dec @modestraat_amsterdam 10.30 - 17.00 Address: Buikslotermeerplein 15, 1025 ES Amsterdam In the workshop, Image Observation and Garment translation, participants are invited to experiment with the method of intuitive pattern making, a playful way of designing clothes. This means you can join using your creativity and intuition, both as a beginner or experienced maker. We begin with looking at a fashion image from the Vogue September issue (2025) and we will make an intuitive pattern of the garments that you see in these photos. The workshop starts with a presentation by @femkedvrs about the method of dissecting fashion magazines and her experience in the project A Magazine Reader that inspired this workshop. The workshop is hosted by @anouksbeckers and @alevvarisco Ticket-price workshop 6th December: 15 € // Stadspas: 6€ You will receive a publication with your intuitive patterns. There are 10 spots available Sign up: [email protected] — On Thursday 11 Dec we will present the workshop results @amsterdam.warehouse 19:00 - 21:00 Talk by @anouksbeckers and @alevvarisco 19:30 The workshop and presentation are part of Pattern Place, a critical fashion project by @anouksbeckers and @alevvarisco The project is supported by @stimuleringsfonds Graphic design and visual identity by @lejlavala