New Window – #8: Martijn van Strien

Our guest Martijn van Strien tells about how he throughout the years shifted focus within the field of fashion. He started from a technical point of view by mainly developing new materials and textiles. He then dived into the state of fashion, questioning how our clothes are produced, presented and consumed. After this more analytical and contextual phase, he went back to making, researches forms, shapes and silhouettes. All these phases were needed to not only develop a relevant, both conceptual and technical, blueprint for himself as a designer, but also as a facilitator for others. His aim is to develop a new, improved, clean, efficient and inclusive fashion system.

Martijn van Strien (1988) graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2012 with majors in textile design and trend forecasting. After working for Bruno Pieter’s Honest by. label in Antwerp he moved to Rotterdam, where he started his own studio in 2014.

Van Strien’s studio uses modern technologies to bring innovative ideas to the fashion world. By testing radically different approaches to garment design, production and consumption he changes our perception and opens possibilities for a more sustainable industry. The eponymous label ‘mphvs’ shows the merging of his fascinations for science, architecture and style.

In 2015 his studio launched The Post-Couture Collective, an open-source project that spawned the first maker community for garments. It gives consumers the possibility to produce their own clothing by introducing a line of wearable clothing designed specifically for production on lasercutters and 3d printers.

inspiratie_architectuur — Architecture, a big inspiration for Martijn.

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Open Source Fashion Manifesto, Martijn van Strien & Vera de Pont