<education>
2006-2007
  MA Fashion Design, Fashion Institute Arnhem,
  Fashion Design Course_ diploma not obtained
2006-2002
  BA Fashion Design, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem,
  Fashion Design Course
2000-2001
  Department of Human Expression, Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University

< project _selected>
07/2008
  'buttoning'
  Atrium of the Duetsche Bank, Unter den linden/Berlin/Germany
04-05/2008
  ‘REFLEXION, a genuine willingness to explore communication’ MIM exhibition
  Museum Het Domein/Sitterd/ the Netherlands
10/ 2007
  ‘Made In Mirrors project ‘ by museum Het Domein Sittard
   intercultural mirroring experiment/one month residency in Guangzhou city, China
09/2007
   Asia Pacific Week Berlin/ INFASHION
   Fashion show and showroom
   Berlin/ Germany
08/2007
  ‘ SGWIMSLI’
   costume and décor design for performance
   Reykjavik Dance festival/ Reykjavik/ Iceland
11/ 2005
   'Flood'
   costume design for a dance piece
   choreograph: Eva Karczag
   Yksin Sateessa? Solo dance festival/Kuopio/Finland
08/ 2005
   'Universal Fashion Show'
   designing a collection of ten outfits with Asuka Yamaguchi (JP) for Kobe UD exhibition
   Kobe/Japan
10/ 2004  
  'An exchangeable Fashion show'
   Project of shareable clothes with disabled people
   Eusebius Church, Arnhem/ Holland
06/2004
  'Invariants Under Transformation'
  costume design and performance for a dance piece 
  choreograph: Sato Endo(JP)
  Stad Schowbrug/Kortrijk/Belgium
05/2004
  'A Time Seeking Its Name'
  costume and stage design performance for
  a dance piece 
  choreograph: Mary O'Donnel Furkerson(US)
  Zero Space/Bratislava/Slovakia

< internship experience_selected >
10/2005
  show assistant for Haider Ackermann
  Paris/ France
02-08/ 2005
  internship as design assistant at Haider Ackermann
  Antwerpen/Belgium-Paris/ France

< competition >
07/2006
  Finalist at ITS FIVE
  Trieste/Italy
01/2004 
  'Universal Design' prize 
  International Fashion Design Contest
  Tokyo/Japan

<publication_ selected>
09/2008
  ADEYAKA, Lifestyle Magazine, Germany
04/2008
  Guangzhou City Report, the Netherlands and  the People’s Republic of China
10/2007
  Modernweekly, Weekly Lifestyle Magazine, China
01/2007
  DAZED&CONFUSED, Monthly Fashion  Magazine, Japan
 2006/ ISSUE 04
  LINK, Fashion  Magazine, the Netherlands
07/2006
  ELLE, Monthly  Fashion  Magazine, the Netherlands