Labels

Labels in Sittard offers an impressive collection of fashion brands. The existing shop soon proved to be too small, and was extended with the addition of a neighbouring premises. The long, narrow garden in between the buildings was given a glass roof. By breaking through windows and doors in the side walls, three interconnected spaces were created with seven passageways. Mentjens created a division between the women’s and men’s sections precisely in the middle of the central glass-roofed space, starting with the floor. One half of the floor is pure white, the other jet black: colours representing yin and yang, the feminine and the masculine. Elegant versus rugged, like the intangible, graceful world of Venus and the earthy, black smithy of Vulcan, her husband, in Roman mythology. The connection between the spaces is made by two sales counters, half protruding into the glass-roofed space and half into the white or black areas. More text on our website.