Barbara Langendijk ft. Noon Passama @ Amsterdam Fashion Week

Barbara Langedijk and Noon Passama gave an amazing presentation during Mercedes-Benz Amsterdam Fashion Week, inspired by the people who used to wear a smocked garment, called the ‘smock frock’. Historically they were actually a group of tough men and shepherds.

The setting in the old gas factory was a great place for the presentation. The fashion crowd and press were put in a circle, fenced like sheep in a small meadow. Around them five models were waiting in the dark until the crowd was gathered and the spot lights turned on. See for yourself in the short video below!
Together with interdisciplinary arts company House of Makers, Barbara Langendijk and Noon Passamawe developed this scene.

Theatrical performance by Barbara Langendijk ft. Noon Passama

There.
The flock has settled.
Letting go of the day outside, shifting slowly, nudging each other, remembering that they have been here before.
This is familiar.
This is safe.
They breathe, murmur, they’re being friendly and at ease.
Patiently waiting for what will be shown to them next.
They will gobble it up.
They’re hungry for it.

About Barbara Langendijk and Noon Passama
Barbara Langendijk and Noon Passama met during their study at the ArtEZ Fashion Masters.
Barbara is a fashion designer who focuses on different ways of constructing a garment. She worked with jewellery-inspired accessories in her collection and discovered endless possibilities to continue intertwining jewellery and fashion design further.
Noon is specialized in jewellery design. She is interested in jewellery and its roles in different contexts including fashion.

Barbara Langendijk graduated in 2013 from the ArtEZ Fashion Masters (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands). During her studies she did internships at Walter van Beirendonck in Antwerp and Proenza Schouler in New York.
Her graduation collection called ‘CLOTH’ was featured by *Wallpaper in the Graduate Directory 2014. In September 2014 she received a grant from the Talent Development program of the Creative Industries Fund NL.
In fall 2015 Langendijk got nominated for the Young Designer Award of the Dutch Design Awards 2015. She presented her latest collection #3 through a showroom in Paris.

Noon Passama is born in Bangkok and moved to the Netherlands in 2007, where she graduated as a jewellery designer from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2010. Since then, her works have been exhibited in respected institutions and platforms, such as Design Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and Design Miami. She works and collaborates across different genres of jewellery and artistic fields. Her main interest is based on existing jewellery types in connection to broader subjects, for example, identity and language. 

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Credits:
Fashion & Jewellery design: Barbara Langendijk & Noon Passama
Design assistant: Gerian Kavische
Text: Sterre van Rosseum (House of Makers)
Music: Nicholas Robert Thayer (House of Makers)
Movement coaching: Peter Leung (House of Makers)
Styling: Mark Stadman
Shoes with traditional Dutch woodcutting: Ed Geuze
Graphic design: Branco Rinquelme
Team: Mieke, Claire and Sarah
Photos and video: Patricia Munster