Kevin clearly has so many talents that he does not want to work and sweat away in attics and become the next Dutch Viktor as in Rolf, as would be Kink & Less, but before leaving the topic of design behind in the interview, BDMOTP finds out that unlike in American high school where dress and fashion are usually part of a code to which group you belong and with which you can distinguish yourself, that in Holland fashion trends are actually set & made in high school by creative students and teenage fashionistas. Thus, in the same way as the latest in pop and music style often finds its creative roots in American high schools, we find out that in Holland creative ideas and fashion trends are made in Dutch high schools, maybe if not in concept, then definitely in trend, style, and even in design as evidenced by Kevin’s first creations as a teenager

BDMOTP asks Kevin about how such a well-branded commercial city & multi-verse as Amsterdam (in the small walk from the hotel to the meeting place with Kevin there are so many high-end brand name concept stores that one has the idea one is in Amsterdam for the reason only of shopping in a luxury factory outlet village) can still produce new ideas and new concepts or designs and new trends. “Holland is small,” he says and, “very American” in its consumer culture so that nothing original remains, so for us to find original styles and trend setters we will have to visit Scandinavia, because a real trend in fashion is “so very Stockholm”. Holland has become a mall, a destiny of sorts for tourists who have come to expect all major brands, a large mall in fact, a gentrified and sanitized place surrounded by beautiful canals and old merchant houses, indeed resembling a factory outlet of sorts. This is what people visiting have come to expect and no original style or trend survives – except in high school apparently.

But then where does Kevin’s creativity & style come from in that case!? The summarized answer is intriguing: Because of the Raggedy Ann patchwork of commercialism in Holland new creative works and ideas flow from the kaleidoscopic mosaic of crass branding commercialism of concept and design stores. While old merchant houses from the 17th century lining the canals inspire tourists to come, at the same time, all the new concept stores & high-end brand “houses” lining the canals of the old commercial city, today inspire creativity in the way primary colors and black or grey straight lines used to inspire Mondrian to come up with new creative patchworks of art, of design, of fashion!? New ideas flow from the variety of forms and colors of the grand commercial patchwork. Is not Holland after all the venue of the world’s the first stock market, the world’s first myriad of companies? Crass commercialism comes to mean creativity and thus Kevin finds inspiration in marketing and selling himself: ‘I am a little marketing thing’, he says.