Painted-Parsons-Treasure-Island - please visit our blog and follow our inspiration and work process
Pioneers of Change - a festival of Dutch design, fashion and architecture to celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American friendship. 
Painted - is a collaboration between Desiree Hammen, Margreet Sweerts, Saskia van Drimmelen and Bulgarian masters in traditional textile handicrafts on small series of unique garments
Nightwood - Nadia Yaron and Myriah Scruggs specialize in reconstructed furniture and textiles to create hand crafted one-of-a-kind products

Pioneers of Exchange

Who
Dutch fashion collective Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen, Margreet Sweerts and Desirée Hammen) in collaboration with Pascale Gatzen and IDC fashion students of Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Native American beadmasters Juanita with daughter Jessica Growing Thunder, local lacemakers, Nightwood and friends.

What
The empty house is seen as a body and the various makers are dressing it by making couture doilies--little treasures to protect, to heal, to ornament, and to accentuate it. The new collaboration of makers consider the house as a present and their gift to the house is their work.

Why
Imagining a new first meeting between Native Americans and the people from Europe, we envisions an encounter through the beauty of our
traditional techniques and mutual respect.

Thank you dear Saskia, Desiree and Margreet for your initial invitation, inviting me to develop this project with you together.

And thank you so much, Joyce, Juanita, Jessica, Nadia, Myriah, Rose, Erszi, Emmeline, Sarah, Rebecca and Alex for generously accepting our invitation to join us in this amazing adventure.