Winners of the Andam Fashion Award 2022 as the best brand of the year, the duo Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh, a couple at work and in private life, they are the founders of the Botter brand.
Rushemy born in Caraçao, a Dutch island in the Caribbean, he grew up in Amsterdam where he completed his studies in Arnhem, then specialized at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp where he met his partner Lisi, who lived between the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands where she studied design at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute.
During the years of training, Botter applied and experimented with the knowledge acquired in the atelier of Viktor & Rolf, working on the Haute Couture collection. The couple then found themselves together with the creative direction of Nina Ricci and then founded their own brand together in 2017.
The common Caribbean origins become fertile ground for the creative duo, thus the concept of “ Caribbean Couture ” was born, a mix of classic garments revisited in a contemporary key, with all the elements of the sea; the theme of marine pollution, the materials obtained from algae and the silhouettes inspired by diving equipment: “We really want to bring water to the catwalk” declared the designers and above all “to sensitize the fashion system and consumers on climate change, the crisis of the environment and how important it is to put it at the forefront of political choices “.
Between deconstructed tailoring and touches of ocean blue “ Blue Botter ” and brightly colored spots, a set of accessories that recall the bond with water, diving masks, balaclavas that recall the swimming caps, bags such as small floats and fishing nets with colored beads, all produced largely using recycled materials recovered from the sea.
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