A Ring With Magical Powers: Dutch Artists With Intellectual Disabilities Join the Fashion Project Outsiderwear

Abstract

This article presents a collaborative project carried out with these outsider artists and a group of young Dutch creatives. The project initiated by the cultural entrepreneur Jan Hoek consists of creating a fashion label Outsiderwear, in which young creatives, mostly fashion designers, were matched with outsider artists from Outsider Art Studios in Amsterdam; working together, the pair developed a collection. The idea was to establish a structural collaboration between professional creatives and outsider artists. Data is presented using interviews in order to construct a case study.