PRESS RELEASE PRAGUE ROTTERDAM FASHION SHOW
Rotterdam’s most avant-garde fashion store 'Prague' will organize a unique runway presentation with collections by Ann Demeulemeester , Dries van Noten, Haider Ackermann and Rick Owens on November 5. Iconique supports this event and hopes to see you there!
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Louis Dijksman, the initiator of the event and owner of Prague, tells more about it:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When I first saw her it was snowing...[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It happened a long time ago, on the 26th of December 1962. Many memories have been lost, but not this one... She entered "de Wieck" and I was struck by lightning. My brother asked what was wrong. ""That's the one", I told him. And it was her. Mary. Many things have changed. The disco has turned into a cinema and it hardly snows anymore. And Mary has disapeared as well.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sometimes, out of the blue, we stand eye to eye with the past. It happens just like that, you're unable to influence or control it. Loss can be suffocating. It was. But loss can also change and turn chaos into harmony. Surrender and resignation can give new energy and now is the time to make a bridge to the future, strengthened by the past. How can I do this? With which means? [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Fashion to me is like paint to an artist, like celluloid to the filmmaker. I, Louis Dijksman of "Prague" am going to organise a fashion event, my last one...A show in which beauty, feeling and memories will merge, a show that will aim for the future. The future, that can’t be anything but a child? In our civilization it is, yet in many other countries a child's future is less self-evident. Many children don't have opportunities or die an early death by malnutrition, lack of medicine or heavy and humiliating labour. In many countries education is insufficient or lacking altogether. I want to respond to this in my own way and ask you for your support.[/FONT]
You can be part of this fashion event in the arcade of the NAi on Sunday November 5th, starting at 20.00, with the coöperation of Ann Demeulemeester, Dries van Noten, Haider Ackermann and Rick Owens
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Tickets (30 euro) can be ordered at Prague, Klein Beginnen, V!P's or the NAi:
Prague, Van Oldenbarneveltstraat 119b, Rotterdam, tel. 010-2134718, fax 0102134719
Klein Beginnen, Hartmanstraat 24, Rotterdam, 010-4123460
NAi, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, tel. 010-4401200
V!P’s, Westelijk Handelsterrein, Van Vollenhovenstraat 15, Rotterdam, tel 010-2251120[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]All benefits will go to KidsRights Foundation, please visit www.kidsrights.info for more info.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]thinking of the past and looking towards tomorrow[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Yours truly,
Louis Dijksman[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Please contact Prague for more information: +31 10 213 47 18[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Contributers to this event are:
Klein beginnen * Grooot * Ziggy * NAi * OBR Creatief *Rotterdan Durft * Rotterdam Festivals * Chief Marketing Office * SPdR[/FONT]
