Charlotte
Kan is a Dutch womenswear designer. She started her label Charlotte
Kan in 2008, a year after graduating cum laude at the Willem de
Kooning academy in Rotterdam. Charlotte Kan is inspired by girls
that take fashionable self-portraits. This translates into a highly
wearable collection with a minimal cut and clever detailing.
Contemporary but timeless.
The collection is designed and produced in small editions in her
studio in Rotterdam. Starting February 2011 each month a new design
is produced and presented in the project Play&pose. In this
project fashion bloggers will be asked to photograph themselves in
new Charlotte Kan designs. This way the garment is presented by the
wearer itself.
Under the name Play&Pose Charlotte Kan previously collaborated
with the multi-talented (photographer and singer-songwriter) Elkie
Vanstiphout in 2007 sending her garments to make fashionable
self-portraits. In 2010 Iris Jans photographed her friends in the
fall/winter 2010 collection. The Play&Pose project functions as
an umbrella to explore new ways of presenting a fashion
collection.
Portrait: Marc Nolte / marcnolte.com
Charlotte Kan in the press a
selection:
Online:
http://profielen.hro.nl
(Dutch)
http://www.overdose.am
(English)
In print:
