Left: This outfit won Wilma Stomp the title of best designer in Suriname in 2008. Right: Miss Suriname 2009 wears a Wilma Stomp dress for the Miss World contest.
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Award-winning Suriname fashion and textile designer Wilma Stomp will visit the Netherlands from 7 to 11 December as Premsela’s next guest in the International Visitors’ Programme.
Stomp, who seeks to improve the standard of fashion and textile education in her country, will visit Dutch fashion colleges to talk to educators about how to modernise the Surinamese system. Her itinerary will also include museums with textile and fashion collections.
Stomp’s own designs have included uniforms for Surinam Airways, a dress for 1999’s Miss Suriname, and curtains for the country’s presidential palace. She showed a collection during Ecuador Fashion Week in September.
Our last guest, Florian Hufnagl, director of Munich’s international design museum Die Neue Sammlung, visited the Netherlands from 25 to 27 November. He met designers including Wieki Somers, Richard Hutten, Demakersvan and Satyendra Pakhalé. His visit also included a visit to the Design Academy Eindhoven and meetings with design curators Ingeborg de Roode of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Mienke Simon Thomas of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Sue-an van der Zijpp of the Groninger Museum. An impression of Hufnagl’s visit is available on Die Neue Sammlung’s
weblog.
In August, Premsela hosted two Brazilian guests,
Arc Design
magazine editor Maria Helena Estrada and the fashion designer Jum Nakao. They attended the art festival Brazil Rotterdam, gave a presentation at De Unie in Rotterdam, met designers and visited exhibitions.
Contact: Renske Brinkman,
brinkman@premsela.org
