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Borre Akkersdijk

Photographer: Lisa Klappe

NOT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE

Can anyone still be innovative in fashion? Hasn’t everything already been done yet? Borre Akkersdijk proves that this is not the case. He was inspired by the dressing up games his nephews played, and converted child’s play into grown-up fashion. Using machines for making mattress covers, he created stuffed, billowing fashion fabrics and used them to create comfortable dresses, coats, trousers and tops. In Ready-Made sleeves, trouser legs and hoods come off the machine as ready-to-sew parts with pre-shaped sewing edges, so that they are easy to stitch together.