We are happy to invite you to the launch of SpeesBookLookPak:
a new Booklook issue about Speespak, at our projectspace in Amsterdam.

Saturday 18 April
EXPO: 16.00 - 20:00
TALK: 17.00 with arist/designer Anouk Beckers, artist Iris de Leeuw and curator Harm Stevens moderated by cultural journalist Tonya Sudiono.

SpeesBookLookPak is a wearable publication and legible garment for the playful human of all time. For this third Booklook issue, Anouk Beckers (1990), initiator of Booklook, teams up with Iris de Leeuw (1944), who designed the Speespak in 1966.

Speespak is an artwork from 1966, made by Iris de Leeuw. It was a ‘playsuit’ for Homo Ludens: the playful human of the future. This modular suit, with detachable and interchangeable trouser legs, provoked contact and created personal space. Speespak, developed within artist collective Luuks in Maastricht (NL) and part of Rijksmuseum collection since 2013, is newly activated by SpeesBookLookPak.

Booklook is a project by Anouk Beckers. It is a series (2022-now) of unfolding, wearable fashion publications that place clothing in a cultural, historical and social context. SpeesBookLookPak is the third Booklook issue and shares texts by artist/designer Anouk Beckers, artist Iris de Leeuw, Rijksmuseum curator Harm Stevens and with an introduction by cultural journalist Tonya Sudiono.

This Booklook issue publishes the original Speespak ’66 patterns. Unfolded, SpeesBookLookPak becomes a pattern for the jacket and trousers of the brand-new Speespak ’26. Graphic design by Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw in close collaboration with Jhen Chen.

More info: booklook.website
@booklook.magazine.garment****

Booklook issue 3 is made with support of Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries, Niemeijer Fonds, Cultuurfonds, Rijksmuseum and Warehouse.

If you can’t make it on 18th of April, this publication is also presented on:

20 June 2026
16:00 – 20:00
17:00 talk with Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw and Harm Stevens.
Place: studio Iris de Leeuw
Kloetingseweg 5
4444 AC ’s Heer Abtskerke

14 November 2026
16:00 – 20:00
17:00 talk with Anouk Beckers, Iris de Leeuw and Harm Stevens, moderated by Tonya Sudiono.
Place: Limestone Books during FASHIONCLASH festival
Grote Gracht 63
6211 ST Maastricht