Maartje Dijkstra

Designer, Netherlands

Maartje Dijkstra

Designer, Netherlands

Biography

Maartje Dijkstra is a Fashion designer, based in Rotterdam (NL)
Her work is designed with a melancholic and progressive vision, that allows her to create hand crafted, sculptural, spherical and individualistic fashion. Also loud electronic music and nature, are big inspiration sources for her. After making fashion collections she will now focus more on creating individual fashion technology outfits, that allows her to collaborate more with artist from other disciplines and to develop the inner concept designer in her. The first fashion technology piece was Intimacy 0.1. After that she designed Denzipfaden, a music controller suit, Obstruction, Hard Core Vein 2.0- and a now a new dress with drum pads, in cooperation with Lizzy Scharnofske.


Chitin Alchemy

A sculptural dress with transparent elements that are designed and manual crafted with the use of a 3D printer pen. The transparent parts are inspired by Chitin, a polysaccharide, which appears as a building material in the cell walls of fungi and in the exoskeleton of arthropods, such as insects.