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She often bases her work on a certain thought, feeling or emotion, on a fear (fear of death, fear of loss, fear of loneliness, fear of growing up)
or the feeling of wanting to keep things close by collecting or hoarding.
She practices photography and makes films and designs based on a lot of these same concepts.
Full portfolio upon request
June ‘25- now
Theater Rotterdam
Freelance work at the atelier
(worked on the openingstrack,
Heartbeats by Nastaran Razawi Khorasani,
Welcome to our Guesthouse,
Fake by Jasper Vaillant
Sisterhood by Romana Vrede)
December ‘25 -February ‘26
Klop Klop Boem Boem - De dansers - Josephine van Rheenen
Costume designer
2025
October 4th
Featured designer at Charlois Fashion Week
June - July
Op z’n Frans - STUK for de Parade - Stephen Liebman
Costume designer
March - June
Tijd voor Geluk - Bianca van der Schoot - ITA
Costume design assistant to Wojciech Dziedzic
March - April
Circle mirror Transformation - Loek de Bakker - Toneelschuur
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
Februari - April
Battlefield of Dreams - Floor Houwink ten Cate - Theater Utrecht
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
Januari - Februari
Alleen maar lieve jongens - Loek de Bakker - Het Nationale Theater
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
December ‘24 - Januari ‘25
Vanishing Acts - Felix Schellekens - Nicole Beutler Projects
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
September ‘24- Januari ‘25
Giovanni’s room - Eline Arbo - ITA
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
2024
November
Charlois Fashion Week preview
T-shirt design launch
October - November
Beste Mensen - Erik Whien - Bureau Vergezicht/ TR
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
June - July
De Inspecteur - Stephen Liebman - Tuintheater
Costume designer
25th of June
Krachtige stemmen - De doelen Studio
Workshop Embroidery
15th of June
The Leap screening at Rotterdams Open Doek
2nd of June
Fashion in Flux - Nieuwe instituut
Featured Designer
May
Remake STOM! - Casper vandePutte- Theater Utrecht
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
May
B1nary Love (Film)- Wijnand Groenen
Costume design
May
Stille Zonde - Vasilis Apostolatos - Altstadt
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
16th of May
The Leap nominated for Fashion Film Festival Amsterdam
April
Panic Room - Floor Houwink Ten Cate - Theater Utrecht
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
March - May
Wachten op Godot - Erik Whien - Het Nationale Theater
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
February
Versus -Casper Vandeputte- Theater Utrecht
Costume design assistant to Rebekka Wörmann
Januari ‘24- December ‘24
Seamstress and assistant designer The New Studio
Januari
Featured Designer Radiant Rebel - Hotel Arena
2023
December
The Salon/ Together & Dedicated x Mozilla Festival
Set design assistant to Yana Engelbrecht
May - November
The Leap - Fashion Film- Fashion Clash Festival
Co-director and Costume / Fashion designer
October
Forget All You Know (About Aliens) -Mirella Muroni
Costum Tapestry
29th - 31st of August and 7th- 10th October
Forget All You Know (About Aliens) - Mirella Muroni
Art Department assistant to Yana Engelbrecht and Elske van Buuren
September 16th
-Featured designer at We're Next Prague
June 16th
-”Of jij ook bang bent’ screening at Rotterdams Open Doek
Graduated with honours
Fashion Design BA - ArtEZ University of the arts
2022
February till June 2022
-Internship Richert Beil, Berlin Studio/design Intern
'Sleepy puppet' sweater and 'Ijsland' photoprint top - Styled by Sara Maryam
One shot hair awards shoot for Hair by Reggy
'Sigaren bandjes' leather top - Styled by Femke Huiberts
Charlois Fashion Week -Featured deisgner
2024
Radiant Rebels - Feautured Designer
2023
We’re next Prague - Featured designer
Graduation Show - ArtEZ University of the Arts
BA Fashion design
Graduated with honours
ArtEZ Universaty of the Arts
Arnhem (4 years)
2022
Studio Intern
Richert Beil
Berlin (6 months)
2019
Fashion Portfolio course intermediate
Central Saint Martins
London (2 weeks)
2018
Art & Design Preparatory Programme
ArtEZ Universaty of the Arts
Arnhem (5 months)
Last Updated 24.10.31
“Wie nimmer het nest verlaat zal nooit weten of hij kan vliegen”
Arnhem, 2023
“Wie nimmer het nest verlaat…” is a collection inspired by a lifetime.
From little boy to young adult to fatherhood.
Jelena Bondt wanted to capture a lifetime in this collection to preserve it.
The collection is inspired by her father.
She started of this collection with the short documentary film "Of jij ook bang bent" about her fear of her father’s death. Bondt's father was always a lot older than other children’s dads and they called him her grandpa, which made his death feel much closer to her. She covered the theme of death with the film, so she wanted to dedicate her collection to his life instead.
The garments all are in reference to him.
Memories add a lot of value to a garment. Her clothes are meant to be worn and preserved from generation to generation. They can be altered to the taste and changing sizes of the generations to come.
[View the whole collection here]
Jelena Bondt
Arnhem, 2025
Jelena Bondt also works as a freelance costume designer on various projects.
[View projcets here]
A short documentary film where Jelena Bondt talks about the fear of her father's death. Together with her dad she has conversations about this topic, life in all it's different forms and the question if he is scared of her death as well.
The project shows the pre-collection of the collection 'Wie Nimmer het Nest Verlaat".
The title "Levensloop" (Life cycle) is depicted here by three different generations, just like the collection itself.
A young boy, a young adult and a grown up/father.
It captures a life. As well in the pictures as in the garments.