Beste Reizigers
Pablo Salvador Willemars 2022
(Dear passengers) In 2017 the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), the company that serves as the main Dutch rail network operator, is to address passengers with the gender neutral “beste reizigers”, rather than the traditional “ladies and gentlemen”.
The source of inspiration behind the collection ‘Beste Reizigers’ is train travel. Growing up next to the railway museum in Utrecht, having vivid travel memories and hearing endless stories from both their parents, grandfather and great-great-grandfathers, who are all (or have been) employed by the Dutch railway company NS, Pablo Salvador grew up dreaming of opulent journeys with l’Orient Express and now wants to evoke the mixed bag of feelings train travel can give, the comfort of going home, the excitement of traveling afar as well as waiting for the train, 5+ min waiting for the train….
Exhibited
2022 June BILBAO INTERNATIONAL ART & FASHION exhibition
2022 June Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam film screening
2022 June Focus filmtheater Arnhem film screening
2022 September Amsterdam Fashion Week, Lichting 2022 runway presentation
2023 January Nederlandse Spoorwegen, iNSite film screening
2023 February fffamsterdam film screening
2023 March Nieuw Instituut, Workwear, show runway presentation
2023 June Fashion Scout China, Bulgari hotel, Beijing film screening
2023 September Beijing Fashion Week ss24 film screening
Nominated BILBAO INTERNATIONAL ART & FASHION 2022
Nominated for the Łódź Young Fashion FASHION FILM FESTIVAL 2022
Nominated for Lichting 2022
Winner of the ONES TO WATCH AWARD, Fashion Scout, China Film Festival 2023
Beste Reizigers academic film
Look 1
Iman holding silver NS logo, wearing denim skirt and halter top made from KIOSK aprons with blue deadstock leather detail, UTREG ring and upcycled jeans.
Look 2
Youngjin wearing colbert with three-dimensional collar and sewn in waistband that holds the tray table belt. NS skirt part of my moms old uniform. Ear scarf made from NS safety tie and scarf, gloves from oma Riet.
Look 3
Amaya wearing two-piece waterproof uniform with yellow service hat and NS ashtray metal handbag
look 4
Nerva wearing pigeon breast shirt, dubble zip pant with chaps and sweat stain neck piece made from NS uniform button up shirts. Silk screened mini skirt with custom KIOSK cup and PSW handbag
Look 5
Marco wearing recycled faux fur UTREG coat and nylon UTREG puffer
030 cap | Illustrated by Yousra Razine Mahrah
Look 6
Alyne wearing repurposed nylon bias-cut dress with vegan leather square and backpack shoulder piece taking it’s shape from rounded headrests seen in older trains.
Look 7
Sumaya wearing printed column dress, pleated skirt made from worn NS pantalons and colberts and wool sweater.
Holding emergency break 1920’s handbag.
Photography of print ‘arnhem-trein-drukte’ Bert Spiertz
Look 8
Fred wearing shoulderbag made from NS SLT Sprinter seat coverings, bodywarmer and shorts made from NS shoftshell uniform jacket, holding foldable bike handbag with gum covered and distressed textile 1930’s hatbox
Lookbook photography | Jan Willem Kaldenbach
Creative direction film | Rachid Naas
Director of photography film | Niels Zweekhorst
Casting | Michiel van Maaren
Editor film | Claudio Zaia
Track | Snare by Perc
Make-up | Monique Brinkhorst
Hair | Mandy Nijland
Location | Museum Arnhem
Models
Iman Najafi
Youngjin Choe
Amaya Rikken
Nerva de Groot
Marco Blažević
Alyne Li
Sumaya Isse
Fred Sheikh
Special thanks to ArtEZ, Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Spoorwegmuseum