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‘Wie het breed heeft, laat het breed hangen’, Collection 2025
a collection that explores the tension between authenticity, aspiration and display.
This collection interrogates the ways in which social status is displayed, inherited, and exaggerated. Drawing inspiration from traditional Dutch klederdracht, the project reflects on how clothing historically communicated wealth and position, and how those codes persist today through logomania and luxury branding. The work questions what it means to “show you have it” in a culture where excess becomes a language of power, and how symbols of status continue to shape collective desire.
Sculptural silhouettes echo the structure of folk costumes, reinterpreted through layered designs where both genuine and imitation rich fabrics highlight the tension between tradition and spectacle. Across nine looks of which two are handcrafted, decorative elements echoing logos and status symbols are distorted and recontextualized, transforming excess into a statement of intent.
In ‘Wie het breed heeft laat het breed hangen’, Lucie Oggel merges tradition and irony, craftsmanship and critique — creating garments that both celebrate and expose the spectacle of showing off.
STEAL STEAL STEAL
For this digital collection I focused on incooporating the relevancy of news into my art. Everything is getting more and more expensive. It’s gotten to a point where the inflation and the purchasing power don’t increase evenly. If this keeps going on like this in the future of fashion people will rebel against the pricing, because it is not affordable anymore. The return of individualism will be represented, but there still will be trends. In the future the trend is the rebellion of stealing and different people carrying themselves in their own way. The theft is to be seen so it is a new form of stealing, whereas usually people try to blend in the future they will be bold about it. It is a play of being seen and unseen.
This apron that I made is the attempt of translating the confusing emotions the original apron gives me. Within the butchers apron I found a paradoxal theme about protectiveness for themselves (metal harness etc) while cutting in a another creature. This I intertwined with the going-to-the-butcher’s experience I had when I went to the butcher while I was young with my mom. She used to tell me out of safety don’t accept anything from strangers, but the butcher was an exceptional case which for me made no sense back then. These two factors gave me the overlapped theme of safety and this apron is my physical translation of that.
inspiration my mother’s old tea towel