About
Ninamounah is an Amsterdam-based label run by creative director Ninamounah Langestraat. Ninamounah is using biological methods to dissect the deeper layers of the cultural mantle found in fashion design. By emphasising instinctive and experimental strengths the label transcends bodily and mental constructs. Ninamounah is making the unusual usual—transgressing comfort zones in fashion and exploring humans animalistic side.
We are all animals wearing a dress of culture.
BIOLOGY
Ninamounah considers herself as a biologists and anthropologists that use fashion and art as her research method. Transforming fashion into a powerful tool beyond its own disciplinary borders. Ninamounah is driven by an interest in mankind in its natural yet constructed form and investigates how the dressed human is simultaneously celebrated and suppressed due to cultural-historical structures that are often found in fashion design. The collections take natural phenomena as a conceptual starting point to disjoint archaic cultural views on society and encourage humans to embrace one’s animalistic side.
RECONSTRUCTED DESIGN
By embracing the method of reclaiming used materials with a specific user’s history for our designs, Ninamounah synthesises traces of a forlorn past with future realities. Engaging with the traces of previous lives that are present in the deadstock fabrics, we merge them symbiotically in our experimental designs in order to artistically reflect on our environmental impact. Classic pinstripe suits, shirts and motor garments are heavily reworked and restructured into sensual and subversive shapes.
CORE PERFECTION
Subverting traditional seasons, Ninamounah instead opts for collections that transcend winter or summer. Classic garments like the tailored suit slowly evolve over time, allowing its genetics to adjust to new environments. Respecting tradition by furthering it, we continuously re-investigate the iconography of garment history, melting and clashing its shapes along the way. Always drawn to the machismo of the motorsuit and the restrictive sexuality of the corset, we are committed to keeping craftsmanship alive. Melting clashes and contrasts into new shapes that are extremely masculine, extremely feminine and everything in between.
Studio Ninamounah
Donauweg 11A
1043 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
At Ninamounah, tailoring is more than shaping fabric around a body — it’s an anatomical exploration of identity, instinct, and power. Each garment is constructed as a second skin: precise, visceral, and always in motion. Craftsmanship is fused with raw sensuality, blurring the lines between human and animal.
From professional transformation to performative expression, our tailored pieces capture the tension between control and surrender. Designed and developed in Amsterdam under the direction of Ninamounah, every garment emerges from a slow, collaborative process of research, experimentation, and skilled handwork by artisans who speak the body’s language.
Tailoring by Ninamounah embodies the art of slowing down, of designing with intention and vision. With a multidisciplinary approach, each silhouette becomes a sculpture — a manifesto of freedom, an act of rebellion, and a tribute to the evolutionary body.
You can request pieces from past collections, commission a new design, or transform an existing garment. We also offer a curated archive of vintage tailoring, available for made-to-measure upcycled pieces.
Our tailoring process begins with a personal and instinct-driven consultation. We explore your physical presence, emotional state, and how you want the garment to interact with your body. This is not just about fit — it’s about transformation, empowerment, and tension.
Based on your needs and desires, we create a series of sketches that visualize the form, materiality, and anatomical details of your piece. The sketches act as a dialogue between structure and sensation — a proposal for how the garment will live on and around your body.
Once a design direction is chosen, toile fittings are held in our Amsterdam atelier. These sculptural sessions allow us to shape and test the garment on your unique form. Every seam, fold, and silhouette is adjusted by hand to ensure the piece not only fits — but becomes part of you.
Each garment is entirely handcrafted by our atelier team, shaped to move with you, not just fit you. During the final fitting, we refine the piece directly on your body/
You can request a completely new tailored design, a transformation of an existing piece, or a made-to-measure garment from our archive of vintage tailoring.
For questions, requests, or to begin the process, contact us at studio@ninamounah.com
