Kaho To wins MAFB City Battle

Yesterday afternoon at the Modefabriek in Amsterdam Kaho To wins the City Battle organized by MAFB.

MAFB has been providing makers of music, fashion and design with a stage since 2008 by holding fashion events at unique locations. After four years of MAF Fashion Battles in Almere and Amsterdam, the events continued under the name City Battles. MAFB is producing the City Battles with partners like Premsela, Stroom Den Haag, Kunsthal Rotterdam and the Amsterdam Museum.

About 20 designers took part in each City Battle, which features a master class, a catwalk show and a pop-up store. Premsela and MAFB were holding a series of City Battles master classes on developing collections in Amsterdam, Hilversum, Rotterdam and The Hague. And yesterday at the Modefabriek, the fashion trade show of the Netherlands, were the finals.

Seven finalists presented their collections to the public and to the jury by Mariana Verkerk, Dieter De Cock, Anka Luthart, Steven Dahlberg and Martijn Daniel Nekoui.

The finalist are Belle Goss, Claudia Preusser, Lipstick Junkies, Moreira, Kaho To, Be'youtiful Rosa en Samira Charkoui.
Maik de Boer did the presentation of the catwalk show.

Here my photoreview:

Belle Goss by Tamia Camara

Claudia Preusser

Lipstick Junkies by Telma Cruz

Moreira by Keezita Moreira

The winning collection called Mutation by Kaho To

Kaho To interviewed by Maik de Boer, telling us about his inspiration for this collection:
A bride left at the altar, about romantic and dark emotions, translated in his collection.