We’re happy to invite you to the official opening of Pattern Place, a project by Anouk Beckers and Alessandra Varisco grounded in a shared obsession for (paper) patterns.

On Friday, 22 May, we are launching the first issue of PP magazine (18:00 - 21:00), with a talk at 19:00 by Pattern Place and graphic designer Lejla Vala Verheus. Moderated by Tanveer Ahmed.

Pattern Place is a space that invites engagement with pattern making to critically investigate the fashion industry. You are invited to join us through a variety of activities, ranging from practice-based research to workshops, presentations and publishing.

Pattern Place Magazine is a modular publication developed as part of this project. It was created to share their research and creative practice with a wider community. The magazine unfolds into a pattern made intuitively, accompanied by an introduction text about PatternPlace as a critical fashion project. The text explains how pattern making is a tactic and the pattern a tool that can be interpreted from a personal and intuitive perspective. This issue also publishes the text ‘Garment Resurrected - Zombies Deflected’ by Femke de de Vries and ‘Un-Mastering the Pattern’ by Tanveer Ahmed.

This first issue is published in 13 variations, all sharing a pattern made intuitively during a Pattern Place workshop at Modestraat in Amsterdam. For this workshop, Image Observation and Garment Translation, we started with selecting images from the Vogue September issue 2025. These images were translated during the workshop into a set of paper patterns. Many thanks to: Ada, Ana, Bo, Brittany, Femke, Floortje, Lois, Mania, Nienke, Robin, Robin, Youngeun and Zeina. Graphic design by Lejla Vala Verheus.

Pattern Place is made with the support of Stimuleringsfonds