Friends
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts stands for the development, strengthening and diversity of the arts in Amsterdam. The fund realises this by incidental financial contributions to projects of artists, institutions and other initiators. The Amsterdam Fund for art is arts- and culture broad.
www.amsterdamsfondsvoordekunst.nl
Amsterdam Innovation Motor
Creative Amsterdam: a one-stop shop for the creative industries. Creative Amsterdam offers national and international companies access to the creative potential of the region. Conversely, it also helps the region's creative companies find the right facilities to stimulate their entrepreneurialism. The program does this through three key activities:
- Concentrating information and activities, by bringing them together in a single physical and digital location: www.creativeamsterdam.nl
- Facilitating, by improving services to foreign companies and to starting and growing entrepreneurs
- Promoting the creative industries in the region so that they attract national and international attention
www.aimsterdam.nl
Arnhem Mode Biënale
Every two years the Arnhem Mode Biënnale presents the state of affairs in fashion design at an international level. In the space of four years the fashion biennale has evolved into a major trend-setting event with a robustly international orientation. Arnhem Mode Biënnale is an initiative of the City of Arnhem and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and receives structural subsidies from the City of Arnhem and the Province of Gelderland
www.arnhemmodebiennale.com
Chamber of Commerce
The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce manages the trade register. The Chamber's other tasks are to provide Dutch entrepreneurs with information, stimulate regional trade & industry and advise local and regional government. The Chamber of Commerce is one of the partners in the business program, witch takes place during AFW.
www.kvk.nl
Dutch Fashion Foundation
The Dutch Fashion Foundation (DFF) strengthens the social, economic and cultural role of Dutch fashion on a national and international level. Based in Amsterdam, DFF manages a network of the most talented Dutch fashion designers and is a key figure in the creative network of photographers, graphic designers and fashion artists. During AFW DFF is the host of the ‘Prelude'.
www.dutchfashionfoundation.com
Eco Cluster Amsterdam
The Eco Cluster Amsterdam is open to all companies, organisations and municipalities in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The City of Amsterdam works together with the Amsterdam Innovation Motor to promote and enhance the Eco Cluster Amsterdam, to create new business and look for new opportunities for the region. AFW belongs to the Eco Cluster due to its initatives towards strengthening the Dutch fashion industry, stimulating interdisciplinary collaborations and sustaining our planet’s biodiversity.
www.aimsterdam.nl/duurzaamheid
House of Orange
House of Orange serves the international Fashion industry, from high end to cutting edge, with it's top talent league of stylists, hair and makeup artists and photographers, a renowned international model agency, and an ambitious production team for projects running from catwalkshows to campaigns. House of Orange serves the make-up team on behalf of Maybelline NY during AFW.
www.houseoforange.nl
HTNK FASHION RECRUITMENT & CONSULTANCY
Since 1997, HTNK is the one-stop-shop for everyone with ambitions in fashion; professionals looking for challenging job opportunities, companies looking for fashion talent and media and institutes looking for strategic insight in the industry. AFW and HTNK collaborate on Lichting, the central graduation show of the Dutch fashion academies. In 2008, HTNK initiated controversial talent development project Redlight Fashion Amsterdam.
www.htnk.nl
www.redlightfashionamsterdam.com
Mint & Berry
mint&berry - this young Berlin based design team is currently stirring up the city’s fashion scene by consistently showing collections that offer refreshing looks and clean styles full of attitude. Loved and known for the labels beautiful dresses, mint&berry equips this year’s Amsterdam Fashion Week hostesses with their iconic black etui dress.
http://www.facebook.com/mintandberry
http://www.zalando.nl/mint-berry/
MODEFABRIEK
Twice a year, the Amsterdam RAI is the place of the Modefabriek, the fashion fair of Amsterdam. Founded in 1996 as a trendsetting experiment, modefabriek has since become a two-day fashion event of international stature that cannot be missed. The success of modefabriek lies in the progressive and high-quality character of the fair, in which innovation and creativity predominate. Modefabriek has remained true to its original concept - creating an inspiring fair experience that provides ample business opportunities.
www.modefabriek.nl
MODINT
Modint is the trade association for fashion, interior design, carpets and textiles. Their main task is to strengthen the competitive power of the members and sectors we represent by means of a wide-ranging package of interest promotion and services, with the focus on content and quality. During the summer edition of AIFW Modint hands out the Grand Seigneur, a prestigious Fashion award of the Netherlands.
www.modint.nl
PREMSELA - DUTCH PLATFORM FOR DESIGN AND FASHION
Premsela has been working since 2002 to improve the cultural climate for design in the Netherlands. They pursue this goal through the production of lectures, debates, exhibitions, research and publications in the Netherlands and abroad. Premsela is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the city of Amsterdam. Premsela is one of the partners of www.lichting09.nl.
www.premsela.org
SOOPL
It all started with an idea. While working as an account manager at a fashion company Arjan Kaan had to visit clients with the latest collection. Those fashion trolleys he and his colleagues were using really did not work. This could be done a lot better. After many hours behind the drawing board, three prototypes, TNO approval and trips around the world a new product was born. The Soopl Fashion Trolley.
The Soopl Fashion Trolley is a fashion trolley that actually works. You can easily move it along bumpy pavements, off tricky curbs and through doorways. It is sturdy and easy to fold in and out.
For the last few years Soopl is sponsor of the AIFW. At least 30 Soopl Fashion Trolleys fill up the backstage area and help out the designers moving and carrying their collections.
Soopl makes fashion people smile.
www.soopl.nl
SYNTENS
Syntens is an innovation network for small and medium enterprises (SME's). Its 270 innovation consultants are familiar with the world of SME's and with the world of knowledge institutes. They are able to connect supply and demand of knowledge quickly and easily. Syntens' mission is to strengthen the capacity to innovate of small and medium-sized companies, to stimulate successful innovation and to make a visible contribution towards sustainable growth.
Syntens is one of the initiators of the ‘Pitch meeting', where young and talented designers present themselves for an audience of decision makers throughout the Fashion Industry. With the contribution of Kansenkanon, an innovation program initialized by Syntens, province Noord-Holland and municipality Amsterdam, SME's are stimulated to innovate better, earlier and with faster results.
www.syntens.nl
www.kansenkanon.nl
VIEW AGENCY/ THE HAIRSCHOOL
View Agency is an independent agency which represents hairstylists, make-up artists and fashion stylists in the fashion, beauty and entertainment industry. They represent a few of the most dedicated and talented hairstylists in the business such as Martin Wentzel and Rutger van der Heide. For years both hairstylists have left their marks in the Dutch fashion scene, but are also performing their skills abroad for clients such as Glamour, Vogue and V-man magazine. In addition they are the founders and creative director of Dutch most prominent school for fashion hairstyling: 'The Hairschool'.
www.viewagency.nl
www.thehairschool.nl
WESTERGASFABRIEK
The Westergasfabriek provides space for creative and cultural businesses. The industrial monuments and the surrounding park form a multifunctional space and a modern city park of international standing. There are trees, meadows and streams, dozens of offices, spaces for large and small events, bars, restaurants, a cinema, a theatre and much more. The Westergasfabriek is the place where AFW happens twice a year.
www.westergasfabriek.nl
