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 visited the Netherlands from 7 to 11 December to speak to fashion educators about modernising fashion training in her country. Her itinerary also included museums with textile and clothing collections.
Stomp was Premsela’s final 2009 guest in the International Visitors’ Programme. Her work has 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 in November and met designers including Wieki Somers, Richard Hutten, Demakersvan and Satyendra Pakhalé. He also visited the Design Academy Eindhoven and spoke with 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 his visit is available on Die Neue Sammlung’s
blog.
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.
Each year, Premsela invites around ten foreign guests to the Netherlands to learn about Dutch design. During an intensively scheduled few days, they visit museums, galleries and design firms. Past guests have hailed from countries ranging from Brazil to China and including old and new EU member states.
Contact: Renske Brinkman,
brinkman@premsela.org
