{"id":1885702,"date":"2026-04-16T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1885702"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:52:00","slug":"this-dutch-designers-gay-fantasy-is-full-of-farmers-pirates-and-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1885702","title":{"rendered":"This Dutch designer\u2019s \u2018gay fantasy\u2019 is full of farmers, pirates and sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/232-38-2018-1345\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443471.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/fashion\/article\/70101\/1\/papa-yorick-westerkamp-gay-fantasy-sailors-maidens-pirates-the-patchwork-family\" data-article-id=\"70101\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1280\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443471.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Ferdi Sibbel<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-16T14:52:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"16 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"16\">16,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - fashion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\">Fashion<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/on-the-rise\">On the Rise<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\">Fashion<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/on-the-rise\">On the Rise<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>This Dutch designer\u2019s \u2018gay fantasy\u2019 is full of farmers, pirates <span class=\"nowrap\">and sailors<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>We sit down with former Patchwork Family member Yorick Westerkamp as he releases the first-ever collection from his eponymous line <span class=\"nowrap\">(PAPA) Yorick<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-16T14:52:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"16 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"16\">16,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-16T14:52:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"16 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"16\">16,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/ElliotHoste\">Elliot Hoste<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-20-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">(PAPA) Yorick<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/0\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443451.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/1\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443452.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/2\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443453.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/3\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443454.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/4\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443455.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/5\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443456.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 20 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cIt all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated,\u201d the fashion designer Yorick Westerkamp tells me. \u201cAt one point, I was physically unable to make work, while my mind kept generating ideas.\u201d During that time of creative stasis, while marooned in his home, Westerkamp envisioned a collection built solely from the clothes he already owned, using just the tools at his disposal to dream himself out of his current environment. \u201cWhen I was in recovery two years later, I turned my bedroom into a small atelier and photo studio and started draping intuitively on friends and family,\u201d he continues. \u201cA fantasy collection was built, made from my own wardrobe, held together only by clips, built from my imagination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Westerkamp named his new brand (PAPA) Yorick, and its first collection clips, swaddles and hems his garments, boldly proposing new silhouettes from an existing wardrobe. Before his debut line, Westerkamp studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where current Jean Paul Gaultier creative director Duran Lantink was the examiner for his final collection. The designer was also briefly a part of The Patchwork Family, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/65842\/1\/punk-collective-staging-guerilla-fashion-shows-amsterdam-queer-patchwork-family\"><span>raucous fashion collective that staged guerrilla shows in Amsterdam<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI liked their philosophy of working together as young designers and supporting each other, rather than competing,\u201d says Westerkamp. \u201cI respect their punk, anti-establishment approach to fashion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the conversation below, we catch up with Westerkamp about working with the collective, the direction of his new brand, plus the designers he\u2019d put on his Fashion Mount Rushmore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"9e21b691-fa1a-426a-a331-b42e00f639fc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443468.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443468.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Ferdi Sibbel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Hey Yorick \u2013 can you talk me through the inspiration for this first collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> It all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated. At one point, I was physically unable to work, while my mind kept generating ideas. I had to resource what was available to me, which became the anchor of the collection: my own wardrobe. I started fantasising about a collection built only from the clothes I owned. During that time, I found metal office clips in my apartment. That formed the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When I was in recovery two years later, I turned my bedroom into a small atelier and photo studio and started draping intuitively on friends and family. A fantasy collection was built, made from my own wardrobe, held together only by clips, built from my imagination, shaped through the embodiment of friends and family, and grounded in the narrative of my own clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell me about the different characters in the collection and why you wanted to represent them each?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> After creating almost 300 looks for around 30 friends and family, I printed all the looks and covered my bedroom wall with them. With the team I slowly started to gather, we began organising, grouping and collaging the images to create this collection. From that, five categories were developed: farmers, sailors, pirates, maidens, and aristocrats. They resided in an imaginative space, and through the act of categorising these characters, the collection started to take shape and make sense. Art directors Ferdi Sibbel and Robin Burggraaf helped developed the universe around these characters, while Kathinka Gernant developed the beauty direction and Hester Wernert expressed them through fantastical hair looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cDuring my studies, my approach was questioned a lot\u2026 I was trying to be provocative, but looking back, I didn\u2019t fully own my design language yet\u201d \u2013 Yorick Westerkamp<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your background in fashion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> When I was 18, I left my small village and ended up in Sydney. I told people there I had finished fashion school, which wasn\u2019t true, and somehow ended up working in the studio for Ellery. Later I studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where Duran Lantink, also a former student, was the examiner for my final collection. I\u2019ve interned and worked with several designers and brands, including Vaquera in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alongside my own brand, I also work on costume design for film. It exists as another branch of my practice, where I can push the same sense of drama through a different context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your involvement with The Patchwork Family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Straight after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, I worked at a sex club to earn money. They did their first show there, and soon after asked me to join. I liked their philosophy of working together as young designers and supporting each other rather than competing. I participated in several shows during Berlin Fashion Week and Amsterdam Fashion Week. To this day, I still feel connected to them. I respect their punk, anti-establishment approach to fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the time in the collective influence your fashion designs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> It gave me confidence in my way of working. During my studies, my approach was questioned a lot, especially my unconventional way of working and my take on disregarding the need to create something new. I was trying to be provocative, but looking back, I didn\u2019t fully own my design language yet. Being part of the collective gave me the space to develop that ownership. It allowed me to become clearer and more direct in how I approach making work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2dffa079-e0c4-4778-a5fe-b42e00f643ee\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443472.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443472.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Ferdi Sibbel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Now for some quickfire questions\u2026 who were your fashion icons growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> My mum. She was the embodiment of a Mugler girl. Every Saturday night, as she got ready to go out, I\u2019d pick outfits from her wardrobe and style her: high heels, stockings, pencil skirts, low-cut jackets, smoky eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time travel has been perfected \u2013 which famous fashion show are you beaming into the front row?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><em><span>No. 13<\/span><\/em><span>, Alexander McQueen, SS98.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you have a freakum outfit growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I liked Canadian tuxedos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which four designers are in your Fashion Mount Rushmore?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Miguel Adrover, Miuccia Prada, Alexander McQueen, Elsa Schiaparelli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the most ran-through item in your wardrobe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> A pair of Versace boxer briefs I stole from a hook-up. I still wear them weekly for almost ten years now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Send the most recent picture\/screenshot on your camera roll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> At my therapist\u2019s light tunnel (the most recent is NSFW).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"adb49bbb-981e-45b9-b415-b42e00fd7d37\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/901\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443476.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.56\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yorick Westerkamp\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443476.jpg\" width=\"901\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photogtaphy Yorick Westerkamp<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Money is no object \u2013 where are you staging your next catwalk show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I\u2019d build a massive 90s locker room, huge open showers, all switched on and running hot: steamy. The audience would be placed right inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your earliest fashion memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I have lots of early memories, but one stands out. When I was around five, my mum took me shopping for shoes. I fell for a pair of baby blue hospital slip-ons. She never said no, even though they were probably hideous. I wore them to school and got made fun of, which made me insecure. But I reminded myself I thought they were cool, and I kept rocking them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You encounter a hostile alien race and fashion is their only mechanism for communication. What would you make them to inspire them to spare you and the rest of the human race?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Lingerie for all. Nothing more convincing than seduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could only wear one designer for the rest of your life, who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Hard to pick, I\u2019m exploring my heterosexuality as an aesthetic these days, so most fashion is off-limits. If I had to choose, it would be Helmut Lang Men\u2019s Spring 1998, and only that collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Scroll through the gallery at the top of the page to see (PAPA) Yorick\u2019s entire debut collection<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"optional-paragraph\"> Nike <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"[IMAGE 2] 03_Annie_032 1\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/0-505-2399-1596\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443059.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">Airmaxxing with New York designer Annie Lian<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"card-latest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/70065\/1\/puma-and-jil-sander-keep-it-simple-with-the-k-street\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"optional-paragraph\"> Puma<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PUMA x Jil Sander&#039;s K-Street\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/0-2-3000-1995\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443156.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">PUMA and Jil Sander keep it simple with the K-Street <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"card-latest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/70073\/1\/labubu-bubble-bursting-obituary-pop-mart-stock-plummet\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mariah Carey and a Labubu\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/65-263-1775-1181\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443221.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">Labubu obituary: Rot in hell you ugly little freaks<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide list-element\">\n<div class=\"scard-latest__section\">\n<div class=\"card-latest__wrapper\"><a class=\"card-latest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/70072\/1\/in-the-bag-louis-vuitton-gets-nosy-with-new-speedy-campaign\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton Speedy P9\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/134-22-1550-1031\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443219.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">In the bag! Louis Vuitton gets nosy with new Speedy campaign <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"card-latest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/70063\/1\/maison-martin-margiela-2006-shoot-dazed-magazine-march-issue-gillian-wearing\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martin Margiela Dazed 2006\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/0-54-970-645\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443152.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">Revisit this 20-year-old Margiela shoot from Dazed\u2019s March 2006 issue<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"card-latest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/70024\/1\/photo-remi-lamande-reimagines-barbara-kruger-seminal-streetwear-performa-drop\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"card-latest__img-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barbara Kruger, The Drop (2025)\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/480\/109-85-1927-1282\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/2\/1442989.jpg\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-latest__content\">\n<h3 class=\"card-latest__title\">These photos reimagine Barbara Kruger\u2019s seminal streetwear drop<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline\" data-newsletter hidden>\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-20-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">(PAPA) Yorick<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/0\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443451.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/1\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443452.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/2\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443453.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/3\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443454.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/4\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443455.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/gallery\/36943\/5\/papa-yorick\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2250-1500\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443456.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 20 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cIt all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated,\u201d the fashion designer Yorick Westerkamp tells me. \u201cAt one point, I was physically unable to make work, while my mind kept generating ideas.\u201d During that time of creative stasis, while marooned in his home, Westerkamp envisioned a collection built solely from the clothes he already owned, using just the tools at his disposal to dream himself out of his current environment. \u201cWhen I was in recovery two years later, I turned my bedroom into a small atelier and photo studio and started draping intuitively on friends and family,\u201d he continues. \u201cA fantasy collection was built, made from my own wardrobe, held together only by clips, built from my imagination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Westerkamp named his new brand (PAPA) Yorick, and its first collection clips, swaddles and hems his garments, boldly proposing new silhouettes from an existing wardrobe. Before his debut line, Westerkamp studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where current Jean Paul Gaultier creative director Duran Lantink was the examiner for his final collection. The designer was also briefly a part of The Patchwork Family, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/65842\/1\/punk-collective-staging-guerilla-fashion-shows-amsterdam-queer-patchwork-family\"><span>raucous fashion collective that staged guerrilla shows in Amsterdam<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI liked their philosophy of working together as young designers and supporting each other, rather than competing,\u201d says Westerkamp. \u201cI respect their punk, anti-establishment approach to fashion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the conversation below, we catch up with Westerkamp about working with the collective, the direction of his new brand, plus the designers he\u2019d put on his Fashion Mount Rushmore.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"9e21b691-fa1a-426a-a331-b42e00f639fc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443468.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443468.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Ferdi Sibbel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Hey Yorick \u2013 can you talk me through the inspiration for this first collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> It all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated. At one point, I was physically unable to work, while my mind kept generating ideas. I had to resource what was available to me, which became the anchor of the collection: my own wardrobe. I started fantasising about a collection built only from the clothes I owned. During that time, I found metal office clips in my apartment. That formed the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When I was in recovery two years later, I turned my bedroom into a small atelier and photo studio and started draping intuitively on friends and family. A fantasy collection was built, made from my own wardrobe, held together only by clips, built from my imagination, shaped through the embodiment of friends and family, and grounded in the narrative of my own clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell me about the different characters in the collection and why you wanted to represent them each?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> After creating almost 300 looks for around 30 friends and family, I printed all the looks and covered my bedroom wall with them. With the team I slowly started to gather, we began organising, grouping and collaging the images to create this collection. From that, five categories were developed: farmers, sailors, pirates, maidens, and aristocrats. They resided in an imaginative space, and through the act of categorising these characters, the collection started to take shape and make sense. Art directors Ferdi Sibbel and Robin Burggraaf helped developed the universe around these characters, while Kathinka Gernant developed the beauty direction and Hester Wernert expressed them through fantastical hair looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cDuring my studies, my approach was questioned a lot\u2026 I was trying to be provocative, but looking back, I didn\u2019t fully own my design language yet\u201d \u2013 Yorick Westerkamp<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your background in fashion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> When I was 18, I left my small village and ended up in Sydney. I told people there I had finished fashion school, which wasn\u2019t true, and somehow ended up working in the studio for Ellery. Later I studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where Duran Lantink, also a former student, was the examiner for my final collection. I\u2019ve interned and worked with several designers and brands, including Vaquera in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alongside my own brand, I also work on costume design for film. It exists as another branch of my practice, where I can push the same sense of drama through a different context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your involvement with The Patchwork Family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Straight after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, I worked at a sex club to earn money. They did their first show there, and soon after asked me to join. I liked their philosophy of working together as young designers and supporting each other rather than competing. I participated in several shows during Berlin Fashion Week and Amsterdam Fashion Week. To this day, I still feel connected to them. I respect their punk, anti-establishment approach to fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the time in the collective influence your fashion designs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> It gave me confidence in my way of working. During my studies, my approach was questioned a lot, especially my unconventional way of working and my take on disregarding the need to create something new. I was trying to be provocative, but looking back, I didn\u2019t fully own my design language yet. Being part of the collective gave me the space to develop that ownership. It allowed me to become clearer and more direct in how I approach making work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2dffa079-e0c4-4778-a5fe-b42e00f643ee\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443472.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(PAPA) Yorick\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443472.jpg\" width=\"2250\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Ferdi Sibbel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Now for some quickfire questions\u2026 who were your fashion icons growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> My mum. She was the embodiment of a Mugler girl. Every Saturday night, as she got ready to go out, I\u2019d pick outfits from her wardrobe and style her: high heels, stockings, pencil skirts, low-cut jackets, smoky eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time travel has been perfected \u2013 which famous fashion show are you beaming into the front row?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><em><span>No. 13<\/span><\/em><span>, Alexander McQueen, SS98.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you have a freakum outfit growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I liked Canadian tuxedos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which four designers are in your Fashion Mount Rushmore?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Miguel Adrover, Miuccia Prada, Alexander McQueen, Elsa Schiaparelli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the most ran-through item in your wardrobe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> A pair of Versace boxer briefs I stole from a hook-up. I still wear them weekly for almost ten years now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Send the most recent picture\/screenshot on your camera roll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> At my therapist\u2019s light tunnel (the most recent is NSFW).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"adb49bbb-981e-45b9-b415-b42e00fd7d37\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/901\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443476.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.56\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yorick Westerkamp\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443476.jpg\" width=\"901\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photogtaphy Yorick Westerkamp<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Money is no object \u2013 where are you staging your next catwalk show?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I\u2019d build a massive 90s locker room, huge open showers, all switched on and running hot: steamy. The audience would be placed right inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your earliest fashion memory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> I have lots of early memories, but one stands out. When I was around five, my mum took me shopping for shoes. I fell for a pair of baby blue hospital slip-ons. She never said no, even though they were probably hideous. I wore them to school and got made fun of, which made me insecure. But I reminded myself I thought they were cool, and I kept rocking them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You encounter a hostile alien race and fashion is their only mechanism for communication. What would you make them to inspire them to spare you and the rest of the human race?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Lingerie for all. Nothing more convincing than seduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could only wear one designer for the rest of your life, who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yorick Westerkamp:<\/strong><span> Hard to pick, I\u2019m exploring my heterosexuality as an aesthetic these days, so most fashion is off-limits. If I had to choose, it would be Helmut Lang Men\u2019s Spring 1998, and only that collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Scroll through the gallery at the top of the page to see (PAPA) Yorick\u2019s entire debut collection<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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