PostNL : Groundbreaking fashion featured on stamps

The colourful stamp sheetlet consists of wedding and evening dresses and shoes, combined with faces, eyes, a bow, a logo and a flower. Black dots and curls here and there connect the drawings.

Sketching as a foundation

Stephan van den Eijnden, PostNL's Mail Netherlands Commercial Director, on the new stamp sheetlet: 'Viktor&Rolf constantly express their creativity through sketches. They believe that they can only design what they can draw. This is also reflected in this stamp sheetlet depicting sketches of their provocative fashion.'

Ink blots

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren chose the sketches for this stamp sheetlet themselves. 'We felt immediately that the drawings should be free and relaxed in character. Real doodles, sketches without a clear purpose. That's why the stamp sheetlet has a spontaneous, vibrant and slightly messy look to it. We were given the freedom to undermine the seriousness of a stamp a little. The ink blots certainly make each stamp look like one of our sketch sheets.'

Availability

The 'Viktor&Rolf'' stamp sheetlet consists of ten stamps marked with 'Nederland 1', which can be used for items weighing up to 20g destined for mail in the Netherlands. These stamps will be available to purchase at all Bruna shops and via Collectclub.nl from 11 September. The stamps are valid until further notice.