What are your ideas or opinions about fashion? Do you think your background of graphic design influences your fashion? If so, how?

I’m not so much interested in trends, new things fast, ready, sell, sale… but really enthusiastic and curious about the creative side of few designers, feel great to see innovative into clothes or others products, the way they dare to follow their own vision, some edges thought which are not only reflecting on the surface but also experimental in the making, the cut, especially when these ideas are twisted answers to our daily life habit.

A graphic design background brought me where I’m today. Maybe because it was not
enough to make two-dimensional things and I needed more interaction with people, then three-dimension pieces or clothes become alive when people are wearing them. [They’re] not really mine anymore.Beside using words and images on fabric in my production, I think graphic design influences me sometimes in the way I work, going back and force between an idea, a sketch, making something, take a picture, downloading it in the computer, working on it, coming back to hand made things… etc.

Why did you choose Amsterdam to carry on your activities?

For the tulips! And my addiction to droopjes (liquorices).5 years ago I was only into graphic design and was attracted by the Netherlands where you find a culture of design, almost
an habit I can say, an attitude, especially in typography. A good feeling in creativity with quite easy going persons; totally different than in Paris.

Are there any events or artists that worth keeping our eyes on, in Amsterdam and The Netherlands?

The group Droog Design, Hella Jongerius, Re-Magazine, Film Festival Rotterdam. There is also really good photographers here, and an amount of art/design/fashion schools spread in all the country.

If I went to Amsterdam, where would you recommend visiting?

Take a bike. Some photo/art gallery like Huis Marseille, De Apple, Foam… Frozen Fountain (shop)…

If you arrive on 30th April It’s Queen’s Day, you might not believe it,that day all the country, wearing orange, is in the street for a big party, and a huge flee market. For a non local it’s quite something.

What sort of projects will you take forward in the near future?

New collaborations in different fields, “wear&play” pieces on their way, fixing my bike, and certainly my curiosity by moving to another country…

Frederique Daubal “Eclairie en fin de journee”
Date: February 7th – March 2nd, 2003
Place: Gas Shop Gallery
Address: 1-28-14 Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 5721 0233
https://www.hellogasshop.com

Frederique Daubal
Address: 54 Haarlemmerstraat, 1013 ES Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)6 1805 0253
frederique@daubal.com
https://www.daubal.com