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Finally, back on the blog track again! Last weeks I have been traveling through the Netherlands to visit the graduations shows of Made at WDKA (Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam), Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague, The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Fashion Transit 10 by the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Amfi) and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. Aim was to spot some winning examples of product design, fashion, photography, art and much more.

In between I made a short dynamic tour towards Berlin and it was refreshing to visit green fashion events/exhibitions like TheKey, GREEN Showroom and Berlinordik. It always is a relief to meet other participants of this global fashion awareness network and to share/re-connect your passion and ambition.

Glossy the Elle Wonen (=Interior) organizes the design exhibition Inside Design Amsterdam 2010 in the weekend of 24, 25 and 26 September. Main programme will take place in the beautiful Lloyd Hotel where different designers and labels will decorate the rooms with their products. Hiphonest.com is invited to participate and currently I am working out my concept to create a enchanting room filled with conscious design…

So stay tuned to Hiphonest.com and be surprised by the fresh talents in art,  design, fashion and photography The Netherlands has to offer and be indulged in the new trends in Hiphonest fashion. Via the webmagazine indemode.nu you can read some of my Dutch stories.

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Just arrived in Berlin! Still a bit exhausted of a very short night after a successful Streetlab Business Case talk show. Last blog-posts I dropped some links and pictures of my own talk, and now some more of the other guests. EnYOI!

Strawberry Earth’s Film Festival video by Alexis Blake from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo.

Amongst an informal setting with approximately 40 visitors, journalist Simone Weimans interviewed Ikenna Azuike from Strawberry Earth about their kool carrotmobs, Dutch Environmental Film Festival, upcoming fashion events and their vision and strategy on using social media and a creative network to paint the world stylish and green.

Otto von Bush, well known of his work and visions as an artist, activist and fashion theorist gave us a very inspiring talk by skype video conference call. He is a very enthusiastic entertaining speaker and we received some good responses of the audience. Check out his ideas and workshops about ‘hacking the system in fashion’ at his site Selfpassage.

Holly Syrett talked about the Green Fashion Competition which will be launched next week 16 July during Amsterdam International Fashion Week.  The entrepreneurs behind the ‘co-designed sneaker’ label !SYOU, Jaap and Merijn, told their alluring story about their broad and international network of talented souls.

Visual via: THEKEY.TO ACCELERATION features New York artist, Jeremy Dean and his series “Back To The Futurama.”

By checking out the websites of the winning events that I will visit these next two days : TheKey, GREEN Showroom and Berlinordik, it makes me happy to get this MEGA boot of energy! Yeah guys, Berlin is HOT when we are talking about the Green Revolution! Keep you posted on my findings. (see as well the BERLIN tips on Ecofashionworld).

Love theKEY Theme: ‘THEKEY.TO celebrates its third edition with the motto ACCELERATION. This concept aims to provoke a new perspective on green products. No longer are they an economic side issue, but instead they are innovative, breaking the boundaries both technologically and aesthetically.’

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‘Heeei, happy this is not the Oscars’ , someone told me when I and the other guest in the Streetlab talkshow this night, Holly Syrett from
THE GREEN FASHION COMPETITION, turned up in the same  bubbleprint dress by Satara. The more the better right! First of all this means that Satara is wicked, secondly that there is not YET so much Green Fashion available in Amsterdam…Happily we have Charly+Mary.

Sometimes you buy yourself a pair of shooos on which you love to walk everyday! ‘Pompidom’ on my TOMS. Found these in my favo store in town, Charlie + Mary.

The special benefit is that with every pair you purchase, TOMS will give a pair of new shoes to a child in need!

Charlie + Mary conceptstore from marieke vinck on Vimeo.

Ecosia for WWF: the eco-friendly search engine explanimation from in60seconds on Vimeo.