Kukka by Laura Luchtman at FASHIONCLASH Festival 2016

Meet Laura Luchtman, she is a textile and surface designer with a main focus on fashion. In 2008 she started her career in fashion as an in-house designer, developing intimate apparel collections. Two years later, she established her design studio Kukka out of love for prints and patterns. She works freelance and on commission with wholesalers, retailers and independent brands both independent and through agents.

You can see and buy Laura Luchtman´s work at Designer Market. Friday July 1 open at 18:30 and Saturday July 2 open at 16:00 (free entrance).

Where are you from? Where are you based at this moment? 
I was born and raised in Heerlen, Limburg. I live and work in Rotterdam for quite some time now. My studio is located in the Historical Delfshaven part of Rotterdam in what used to be an orphanage. The building is filled with creative entrepreneurs. It's an inspiring community to be part of.

In what projects are you involved at this moment? 
At the moment I’m designing swimwear and accessories prints for S/S 2017 for several clients and I recently started a new collaboration with Hunt + Gather print studio in the US.

Andrea Mohr presents “Inversion”

Picture by Karen Kikkert

1. Please introduce yourself to our readers. (Who are you, where do you come from and what is your field of specialization?) 

My name is Andrea Mohr. I was born and raised in the city of Bonn in Germany. After high school I went to live in Tokyo for one year and then came to Maastricht in the Netherlands to pursue my studies in fashion design. I specialize in womenswear, in which I explore different techniques and prints. 

Lately, I've increasingly focused on prints and the “lenticular effect”, that simulates moving images. 

After graduation, I will further specialize in this and work towards a collection and a range of accessories that will be exhibited as part of MARKED!, an initiative of Designplatform Limburg and C-Mine in Genk that works with ten young designers and helps them produce and sell their products. These items will also be sold in selected stores at the end of the year.