Welmoed Bosch
Fashion Design and Writing







































Profile

I am a designer, artist and writer working between fashion and philosophy. I make clothing and objects that sometimes resemble clothing, approaching the body through cut and construction. My work considers how garments shape, translate and mediate anatomy.

Grounded in my experience in dressmaking and tailoring, I reflect on the garment from the inside, examining the foundations of the techniques used to dress bodies.

I also write and edit on design and visual culture in English and Dutch, working with institutions including Design Academy Eindhoven and Artez University Press.

Alongside this work, I am completing an MA in Philosophy at Radboud University. My research centres on the late eighteenth-century shift in European menswear, the conception of nature underpinning it, and its relation to Neoclassicism. It brings costume history and fashion theory into dialogue with philosophy, informed by my practice as a maker.
         
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Writing and Editorial

Freelance Writer & Editor (2022–present)

Working with institutions including Design Academy Eindhoven and Artez University Press

Essays, exhibition texts, artist biographies and editorial work for publications and exhibitions

Translating artistic and theoretical research into accessible language

English and Dutch


Practice 

Independent Practice (2021–present)
Artistic research in fashion and textiles, resulting in series of garments and textile objects

Costume design for film

Co-curator, New Fashion Narratives Exhibition, FASHIONCLASH Festival (2026)

Practical experience with textile’s agricultural origins

Steward, The Linen Project
Research into local linen production, from flax cultivation to textile making

Rooftop shepherd (Stadsparkherder) (2023-2024)
Shared responsibility for flock care and meadow / Wool processing

Designer in Residence, EMMA Kreativzentrum (2022)
Suiting the Body — research on representations of the body in tailoring

Design & Production Roles

Eckhaus Latta (New York), Hul le Kes (Arnhem), Ninamounah (Amsterdam)

Assistant to Susan Cianciolo, Milan (2019)

Selected presentations and exhibitions

Lecture Het spook van de kleding: kleding als parergon en de onmogelijkheid van het naakte lichaam, Flemish-Dutch Philosophy Day (2025)

Solo exhibition Phantom Bodies, Nieuw Charlois (2024)

Publication with Artez University Press, contributed chapter Dressing Bodies to book publication Practising Solidarity (2025)

Presentations at Dutch Design Week, Amsterdam Fashion Week and Dutch Denim Days

Recipient of grants including CBK Rotterdam, Keep an Eye Foundation and Eigenbetrieb Wirtschaft und Stadtmarketing Pforzheim

Education

MA Philosophy (ongoing), Radboud University

BA Fashion Design, Willem de Kooning Academy

Additional training in tailoring, bobbin lacemaking, marble sculpting, wool and flax spinning, circular fashion (Wageningen University), and seminars on dress curation with The Association of Dress Historians.

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