Victoria Koblenko features the Reality Check Ring

    FOC Talents 23Jun2011

    Our FOC Talents program keeps growing, which means we attract attention from international designers like Karim Rashid and Ross Lovegrove. More recently one of the very first talents products was released in a silver version, the Reality Check ring. Victoria Koblenko, a well known Dutch celebrity bought the first one we made, she even took it to one of her photoshoots – the results are stunning.

    The Reality Check ring, designed by FOC Talent Josien Pieters is made from 100% Sterling Silver and is available in our online store, for €347,-.

    Do you want to learn more about our Talents platform or join in, read more here.

    FOC sponsors Dutch Fashion Awards

    FOC FOR 15Nov2010

    FOC continues its design collaboration with Ted Noten. Next in line were the Dutch Fashion Awards where Ted Noten is selected to design the awards for the winners. Iris van Herpen was the grand winner of this year’s Dutch Fashion Awards. Not only did she win the Mercedes-Benz Dutch fashion Award, but she was also awarded with the Dutch Fashion Accessory Award and the Dutch Fashion Incubator Award.



    The jury chose Iris van Herpen to be the ambassador for the kind of contemporary creative force Dutch Fashion has to offer to the international fashion field. With Bas Kosters as the winner of the International Fashion Incubator Award 2010, a prize stimulating authentic creativity in fashion, the jury clearly made a strong statement this fourth edition of the Dutch fashion Awards. Or like jury member Donald Potard stated: “12 points for Dutch Fashion!










    These sweet as candy like 3D printed awards, designed by Ted Noten, were created for 6 different categories:

    1. Dutch Fashion Icon Femme

    2. Dutch Fashion Icon Homme

    3. Dutch Fashion Incubator Award met De Bijenkorf

    4. International Fashion Incubator Award met Studio Zeta Milano

    5. Dutch Fashion Award € 25.000 met Mercedes-Benz

    6. Dutch Accessory Design Award by Sacha

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    3D printed shoes awarded ‘most creative’ at Mittelmoda

    FOC FOR 8Jul2010

    Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has been awarded ‘Most Creative Collection’ prize at the Mittelmoda event 2010. The collection she designed for her graduation at the Artez- Academy of Fine Arts Arnhem included a pair of high heel shoes engineered & designed in collaboration with Freedom Of Creation. The high heel shoes are produced using selective laser sintering 3D printing technology.


    About Mittelmoda:

    Mittelmoda is one of the most sought-after and well-known fashion competitions at an international level. Created in 1993, the project Mittelmoda has been developing an international network of contacts with over 620 schools of fashion design in 66 countries, thus becoming a concrete chance of exchange and comparison for the international creativity. (more…)

    FOC at World Fashion Centre Amsterdam

    FOC Home 24Feb2010

    Our exhibition at the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam is generating lots of traffic on their ground floor. Those of you who missed our opening event, you are all more than welcome to still visit the exhibition.

    The show runs until 5th of March 2010, from 09:00 – 17:00.

    Location: WFC (main entrance), Koningin Wilhelminaplein 13, 1062 HH, Amsterdam

    The above picture shows the layout of the exhibition, with 20 blocks each featuring products created by Freedom Of Creation in the last 10 years.

    If you want to see 3D printing for yourself make sure you visit the exhibition before it ends on March 5th.


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