MBFW Street style: Fashionbloggers & Fashionchick

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Always a pleasure catching up with the lovely Wendy from Fashionchick and capturing her looks. Now she was accompanied by the winners of the Fashionchick Bloggercontest. It was nice to see these international bloggers together and what really surprised me was the fact that most of them were quite young.

Picture above (from left to right): Evelina Barry, Hannah Crosskey, Madison Hudgens, Maria Schwandt, Debbie Hendriks and Wendy

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MBFW: READY TO FISH BY ILJA

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Ilja Visser is a Dutch womenswear fashion designer who studied Fashion Design at the ArtEZ Institute of Arts in Arnhem. She acquired the fine skills of tailoring during her apprenticeships with Donna Karan in New York and Maria Cornejo.

In 2005, Ilja founded her own couture label “ILJA” and by 2006 the ready-to-wear line “Ready to fish by ILJA”: a total concept of fashion, furniture, scents and music. For “Terrace”, her A/W 2014-15 collection, Ilja took inspiration from architerture, domestic environment and nature. She enjoys mixing fabrics and textures to create outerwear garments with an indoor softness.

Text: Laura Viero

Street style: Japanese female winter look, Amsterdam

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It was so nice meeting these friendly Japanese women just before the Starbucks in Amsterdam. When I was about to exit the building I immediately spotted this Japanese woman a quickly took a shot (see below). I decided to go after them and ask her for a quick shoot, because I just wanted to capture the whole look the way it deserved to be shot (see above). Besides the shooting it was nice to use this opportunity to speak some Japanese, which went quite well (haven’t used it the last 3 years).

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