door: MisjaB You are who you are Ben Akkerman (1942) is an optician and together with his wife he has a shop in Rotterdam: Eyeclusive. He started in the shop of his father. Ben: “My father was an authoritarian man. I always followed my own path; also in the way,...
Kotomisi Liesbeth Accord was born in Suriname (1956) and she is the guardian of the Clark Accord Foundation. Liesbeth: “On his request, all family members wore traditional Suriname clothes on the day my brother presented his debut novel The Queen of Paramaribo....
Gentleman from Portugal António Sérgio Rosa de Carvalho was born in Lisbon (1953). For years now he moved to the Netherlands because of the love of his life. He is an architectural historian and writes public papers for Público, a Portuguese newspaper, as well....
Sunny day On a sunny Saturday in June I visited the opening of Fong Leng’s A Fusion of Fashion and High Art in Morren Galleries in Amsterdam. Fong Leng is a Chinese-Dutch fashion designer. Fong Leng Carla Maria Tsang (1937) started a fashion boutique in...
When In Antwerp, I met a very colorful and well-dressed lady: Greet Moens (1967). Greet: “I completed a dietary education, but after finishing I worked in a sales department in the Pharmaceutical industry. About 15 years ago one of my brothers died. For me a...
