Tag Archives: dress

Textile Art | Fabric Talk

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Wilson

From the virtual shopwindow of Vlisco’s Boutique, here’s a selection of designs from the top 25 best selling fabrics. Knowing, the women buying this African wax cloth often decide on a fabric because of the symbolic design; the pattern … Continue reading →

Posted in ART, CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, ONLINE FINDS, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME | Tagged african, Cleopatra, cloth, clothes, communcation, design, dress, fabric, Greta, Home, Ingrid Bergman, Isolde, Medea, pattern, sotry, stories, storytelling, street wear, talk, talking, tell, textile art, tradition, Vlisco, wax, Yoko | Leave a comment

Boys or girls

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Wilson

Preparing for a photo shoot with the theme Duch Masters I saw a documentary on tv about the Dutch village of Marken, which used to be an island. It told the story of a small community losing its traditions after … Continue reading →

Posted in DESTINATION HAPPINESS, OUT OF THE BOX, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME | Tagged alike, anecdote, black and white, boys, clean, craft, documentary, dress, dutch, equal, fabric, fact, gender, girls, handmade, history, Holland, inspiration, lesson, looks, masters, men, minds, Nature, neutral, news, nurture, rights, sex, slate, text, The Netherlands, think, tradition, traditional, truth, women, youth | 2 Comments

Cover-ups and giveaways, an orientation

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Wilson

I am half way my life – considering I feel 88 is the limit, I am orienting the second half already – and I always felt you should never stop learning. Apparently this a a belief at the heart of Japanese culture … Continue reading →

Posted in ART, CREATIVE CAREERS, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME | Tagged cover, cover-up, diana vreeland, dress, dress up, elegance, exhibition, fabric, Frogue, giveaways, illustration, life's a stage, Look, mood, orientation, pink, Pop art, Pop-art and fashion, potatoe sack, sexy, show, stage, taste, tentoonstelling, Textile museum, Typography, un-sexy, Vogue | Leave a comment

Pages of a diary

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Wilson

A screenshot taken on the 15th of August last year. Maybe it was a hot day, but I can still relate to it. I have been taken screenshots since I knew how to, for years now. I keep them in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, CREATIVE CAREERS, DESTINATION HAPPINESS, OUT OF THE BOX, Stuff, TEXT, Things I made | Tagged a thousand words, age, anndy warhol, banana, beauty, book, dates, diary, dress, fabric, heart, humour, kisses, LinkedIn, lips, loch, lou reed, lubricant, menu, moment, Music, package, pages, painting, peel off, post, return to sender, sexual, slice of life, social, suit, Time, undress, Velvet Underground, views, visual, voice, wilma tichelaar | Leave a comment

Reflector | Color Marathon

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Wilson

Looking out of the front window this morning I saw no end of colorful sporty outfits on parade, and I realized it’s the Amsterdam Marathon today! Our house is on the edge of the city centre, about 7 kilometers from the … Continue reading →

Posted in DESTINATION HAPPINESS, Fashion, KIDS ART, TEXT, THE FABRIC OF HOME, work | Tagged 2014, 42 km, Amsterdam, drawing, dress, dress up, gear, Holland, KIDS ART, marathon, Olympic, outfit, perform, reflector, shirt, shoes, short, sport, Stadion, wilson tichelaar | 1 Comment

Everyday princesses

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Wilson

In the children’s section of our library I came across this wonderful book of costume illustrations by French artist Joëlle Jolivet. It is a mega size book showing costumes from everywhere, through times and ages and the images are grouped … Continue reading →

Posted in CREATIVE CAREERS, Fashion, Illustration, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXT | Tagged clothes, costumes, dress, Fashion, Joelle Jolivet, looks, Milan, People, PHOTOGRAPHY, Scott Schuman, street fashion, style, The Sartorialist, tribes | Leave a comment

PS | Bag ladies

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Wilson

My post office is inside a newspaper stand, a dangerous situation, as I have to pass tiers of attractive magazines to get to the back of the shop, where the stamps are. I -again- had no intention of buying a … Continue reading →