Born in Zutphen, The Netherlands in 1977, Bas Kosters enjoyed a variety of fashion educations. When graduated in 1997 on Fashion and Clothing at Rijn IJssel College Arnhem, he attended Fashion Design at AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede where he graduated in 2001 with the collection ‘Containerkoninginnen’. After AKI he attended a master course at Fashion Institute Arnhem where he graduated in 2003 with the collection ‘Two Teacups and a Frying Pan’ which earned him the Robijn Fashion Award (professional jury price) in the same year. Inspired by image building in the music industry Bas Kosters created ‘Two Teacups and a Frying Pan’ as a fictional image for a band. By combining fashion, music and performance for the collection presentation, Bas made it look like a freaked-out pop concert. The band initiated especially for the presentation went on by the name of Bas Und Sein Verrucktes Musikaten Stadle. This illustrates the multi-disciplinary methodology of Bas Kosters.
After winning the Robijn Fashion Award due to this unique collection and presentation Bas Kosters soon caught the public eye.
In 2005 Bas Kosters started Bas Kosters Studio to house al his fashion related activities he undertakes as an artist in one company name. Besides designing clothes Bas Kosters paints, illustrates, makes dolls, objects, installations, music and does performances. The dolls play a big part in the work of Bas Kosters Studio. You can also find them in prints and as accessories.
An opulent use of colors, intensive embroidery and the use of his signature prints are recognizable features of Bas his work.
Bas Kosters believes in history and continuity.
His work comments on fashion and the fashion industry. Hurrying to present a new collection every half-year doesn’t fit in that picture. The most important thing is that visualizations and the body of thought keep coming back, and function as a grip for the spectator. That’s why he believes strongly in building up an oeuvre. For Bas Kosters Studio a collection is something that you build up like collection of a museum. Starting from its base, growing larger and larger.
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