The Establishment
S.R. Hitchcock (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
S.E. Frausto – Mentor (TU Delft - Berlage)
N.A. de Vries – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
Michiel Riedijk – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
B. Groothuijse – Mentor (TU Delft - Berlage)
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Abstract
The Establishment imagines a tailor shop that provides a range of certified made-to-measure suits, jackets, trousers, overcoats, shirts, and accessories - sited in Rotterdam’s new fashion district inside an old trade office and portside warehouse – accommodating a slower-paced fashion industry, in which use of the daily workers suit is restored.
Three buildings accommodate the re-popularized sartorial significance of the suit: A tailor shop, an employment agency, and a more discrete Longshoreman’s business club. Reigniting interest in the craft of tailoring, formal wear and long-lasting garments and reconvening the collective bargaining power of people in an ever more fragmented world of work.