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Winde Rienstra, unlike some of her equally successful peers, did not know what she wanted to be until relatively late. Somewhere in her late teens, a performance at Oerol (the annual theatre festival on Terschelling) made her realise her calling: it had to be fashion.

But it wasn’t just the costumes that attracted Winde. ‘’I loved the way they used the space and created a complete image through their set designs’’, she says. ‘’But I didn’t want to do theatre.

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I’m all about real emotions, inspired by my designs, the atmosphere at my catwalk shows and by seeing the garments being worn. The enacted sentiments of theatre are not for me.’’

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So she studied fashion at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (University of the Arts) in Utrecht.

Winde fondly recalls a first-year assignment: ‘’We were asked to pick a building and design an outfit inspired by the shapes. I went for Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut. I still find architecture hugely inspiring; I think in terms of thre