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Dec 13, 2011
Students of AMFI’s Fashion and Visual Culture programme were challenged to create innovative fashion images. After ten weeks of photography assignments they started their film projects with a crash course in filmmaking. In less than a week they had to write, produce, shoot, direct and edit a one minute film. On Monday the students had never...
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Dec 8, 2011
The past couple of months AMFI students and alumni have worked hard to decorate the Exchange Hotel in Amsterdam. The hotel is situated on the Damrak and opened its doors on December 3. The concept of the hotel is ‘rooms dressed as models’. This concept allows each room to be treated with the same independence as...
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Nov 13, 2011
The Sustainability Week of AMFI –Amsterdam Fashion Institute- from 7 to 11 November was all about environmental issues & fashion. Two hundred second year students from all AMFI departments worked on different assignments and the results are bundled in an online magazine and released Monday the 14th of November. Beyond Tree Hugging is a one-off...
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Nov 10, 2011
A day of inspiring, big & small ideas, joining forces and having fun saving the planet in a creative way organized by the Amsterdam Fashion Institute for the fifth time.
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Nov 3, 2011
8 November Beyond Green! On Tuesday November 8, AMFI will organise Beyond Green for the 5th time. Beyond Green is AMFI’s symposium about sustainability in Fashion. This year the central theme will be Material Mindset. How are the used materials made and how sustainable are the production processes from the Fashion Industry? These (and other)...
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Nov 1, 2011
It has been almost a year since 30 fashion addicts stopped buying clothes for a year. Over the last decades fashion has become more and more about consumption; fashion became fast fashion and clothes have become disposable. Aim of the project was to find out what the meaning is of consumption within the definition of...