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Photo: Nina van Hoogstraten

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Radical Lace Translating the intimate nature of lace into a piece of clothing Masterclass in collaboration with bachelor students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam and Lace Museum Horst Year: 2010 Period: 1 week Coaching: Maarten Versteeg & Marina Toeters In collaboration with: Floor Kuitert, Simone van Tongeren & Lola Khodjaeva  In October 2010 I participated in a workshop in collaboration with Museum De Kantfabriek in Horst and students of different disciplines of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. The team existed of two fashion students, one lifestyle student and myself. I enjoyed the interdisciplinary teamwork and the working methods of the academy. The focus of the workshop was on translating lace and its values to a 21st century application. Lace is known for its beautiful fragile patterns. Furthermore, lace can be of an intimate and seducing nature, because of the fact that it reveals a little bit of the skin underneath. These characteristics of lace were the incentive for the concept. This concept pulls the intimate nature of lace into the extreme. In a seductive way the inside of the human body was translated to the outside as a wearable. This wearable consisted of a bodysuit, a legging and a glove. Body tissues, such as muscles and blood vessels, were used as a pattern. The focus was on the sensitive parts of the human body, the wrists, the sides and the thighs. Through movement of the human body the wearer can reveal and conceal these intimate spots. the characteristics of lace were the incentive for the concept moodboard for the design