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In a conversation with Costume Designer Jorge Jara, the topic went on how good fashion schools are nowadays for upcoming designers.
He commented how he considered the Arnhem Academy of the Arts in the Netherlands as one of the best in the world and I totally agreed with him because every designer that gets to finish that school (it is known as one of the best and one of the hardest) is with no doubt a designer to keep an eye on.
I just discovered the work of Japanese designers Kaito Hori and Iku Furudate and their label commuun. Hori studied at the Arnhem Academy of the Arts and Ikurudate had formal design training at Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College, a university founded in 1919 and responsible for the fisrt fashion magazine in Japan, So-en, and have among its alumni Kenzo and Yohji Yamamoto.
Their collections are such a wonderful instance of minimalism, so pure they compete with the very best of a former Jil Sander.
* interview at refinery29

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ph by Lukas Wassmann

/// Estas pasadas navidades conocí al diseñador de vestuario Jorge Jara. Hablando con el surgió el tema de lo buenas o no que son las escuelas de diseño hoy dia y si estan ayudan o no a los diseñadores en su carrera. En un momento dado comento que para él la escuela de Arnhem Academy of the Arts en los Paises Bajos era probablemente la mejor escuela de diseño del mundo, lo cual le di toda la razón porque cada diseñador que sale de esa escuela es digno de mención.
Uno de ellos es Kaito Hori, segundo miembro junto con Iku Furudate de la marca commuun.
Furunde a su vez estudio en la escuela Bunka Fashion College de Tokio, tambien caracterizada por la calidad de los alumnos que salieron de sus aulas, como Kenzo o Yamamoto.