Flat textile shoes, designed and made by Jinsil Haveliwalla/ElephantandChickpea)(Vancouver, Canada) after a model on a 16th century painting by Giovanni Mansueti. Male balloon skirt: see message Dertig
Extremely wide and short balloon skirt with giant decorative bow. An amazing work by AnnySchoo (US), inspired by examples of formal European male clothing dating back to the 16th and 17th century.
AnnySchoo about her work: The hardest part of making this skirt was calculating the pleats. They could only be hand sewn to stitch such thickness of pleated fabric with stiff belt on. The huge bow gives the skirt a very extraordinary look.
Shoes: see Dertien Wide shirt: see Negentien
Photographer: Gonnie Meijer Location: near the village of Lixhe, Belgium
Lucia Squillari about her work: I invented these pants to create a manly skirt. Paul liked a long black wrap skirt I had made, so I thought I'd make "wrap pants", based on the same principle. In fact they work and look like two wrap skirts, attached together in the middle, one wrapping each leg. A sash is attached to the front, and one to the back, with long ties protruding. To wear the pants the sahshes protruding from the left side should be crossed and tied on the right side, and vice versa.
Photographer: Gonnie Meijer Location: near the village of Lixhe, Belgium
Some first steps toward the re-introduction of colourful and creative men's clothing, after two centuries dominated by black, grey, boring mass clothing. That is what Saaibestrijding is about. Often in cooperation with creative designers, makers, photographers and other enthusiastic people I try to trace new paths in male clothing. I am not a fashion designer. Not at all. My mother considered it necessary for her son that he learned how to use a sewing machine, but it was the central theme of my artwork that made me curious about, for example, the question why millions of western men are wearing day after day a tie around their neck. An extremely weird habit if you think further about it.
The Saaibestrijding project wants to inspire, to encourage everybody to leave the rude dictatorship of the fashion industry and its commercial power behind. Everybody is creative. You are not? No problem: There's no copyright on Saaibestrijding. Feel free to use my ideas and designs to copy them, to be inspired by them, to distribute them on the internet wherever you want.