"BiographyInez van Lamsweerde (1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (1961) were born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.van Lamsweerde studied at the Vogue Academy of Fashion and Rietveld Academy In ¡msterdam. She began her career as an artist and spent a year on a studio grant at the PS 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. Since the late 1980s, she has collaborated with Vinoodh Matadin, whom she met in their hometown, Amsterdam.
Matadin was a designer at the time, and their joint projects were a combination of art and fashion. Rather than taking an outsider view of the fashion world as artists, they have become part of the fashion system, although retaining the freedom to create critical and occasionally disconcerting images.
The team worked with fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton, Yohji Yamamoto, Joop, and Thierry Mugler. They both live and work in New York and Amsterdam."
