1 Year Anniversary - Opening Under Water Indigo exhibition by Thomas Tukker
On Friday 20 November (2009) denim inspired Boutique Tenue de Nîmes celebrates its 1 year anniversary with the launch of an exhibition called 'Under Water Indigo' by Thomas Tukker. All the images of the exhibition have been shot under water and refer to the authentic indigo bath. By combining the pureness of this classic colouring method with the beauty of the female body in work wear, the photographer refers to the paradoxical identity of the denim cloth. By emphasizing this paradox the exposition embraces the most important starting point of the Tenue de Nîmes store: the beauty, but also the diversity of denim. Thomas Tukker is a Dutch fashion photographer with a strong fascination for water. Thomas started his career as a professional diver, and his experience as a diver helped him become an internationally respected underwater photographer too. Over the course of more than a decade, Thomas mainly worked abroad, but after fourteen years in places such as Miami, Milan and New York, he finally returned to Amsterdam, his city of birth. In less than a year, Tenue de Nîmes has managed to become an authority on jeans. Menno van Meurs, René Strolenberg and Joachim Baan fulfil any denim mission out of their Amsterdam based 'denim livingroom'. Besides jeans, Tenue de Nîmes sells a mixture of carefully selected items that are meant to embellish life. Everything between the walls of the store is interconnected and has an underlying connection with the heritage of jeans.
