Dappermarkt.

Today was again a pretty chill day. We spent the morning looking at a new design Edwin draped. That would be look two for the collection that can both be varied to become more looks. As we started talking about patterning and more bias cut and on grain (recht van draad en schuin van draad, pap :-) ), Edwin showed me more fashion books and we took our time looking through pages and pages of beautiful dresses and designs and surprisingly found some flawed Valentino ones. I know, shocking. Also, I now want this book from the exhibit "Haute Couture: Voici Paris" in The Hague last year. It's amazing.

We then went with the bike (well, two bikes) to the Dappermarkt, which is a market where they sell, among other things, fabric. Edwin got some fabric and I got some super cheesy and hilarious but totally awesome fabric.

My horrible/awesome fabric. The words describe the items. I want to make a sundress out of it.
 Maybe it'll help George learn Dutch :-)

The only real work I did today was alter a jacket for a client. It's from the collection Edwin won the Frans Molenaar prize with but in a completely different fabric. He also had me try it on and try on another jacket but I was too tall for it, which I thought was weird since I'm not really that tall in The Netherlands. Anyway, I want the jacket I altered today in a nice fabric. I love it.

It looks a little funky in this picture bit this is the jacket. 

After work and dinner, I met up with my cousin Fleur and we went to het stadje (basically the center of the city where the stores and bars/cafes are) and we hung out for a few hours. So much fun to just be able to go to a cafe and sit and talk.

Can you guess which drink is mine? :-)

 P.S. Since Edwin loved clever pattern-making, he loves this wedding dress by Viktor & Rolf for Princess Mabel.