Nanette de Kool

Nanette de Kool graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago. After years of experience as a designer and stylist in the fashion world, she started her own fashion label from Antwerp, Belgium. Back in The Netherlands she worked for textile pioneer ByBorre, where her love for 3D knits began.

Nanette loves working with circular 3D knits: remains like leftover textiles and yarns including production flaws. Imperfections are part of the creation; tactility and the texture of the fabric add to her visual language. She screen-prints, washes, cuts and then re-assembles the textile, creating new compositions. This leads to more depth in color, character, texture and story. Next to wall-hangings Nanette also makes suspended screens, room-dividers and made-to-measure pieces.

“Thanks to the added filling of the fabrics, also the shadows become part of the design. The raw edges, knitting flaws or ink patterns give the textiles their own character.”