This Dutch designer’s ‘gay fantasy’ is full of farmers, pirates and sailors

“It all started with a long sick bed, quite soon after I graduated,” the fashion designer Yorick Westerkamp tells me. “At one point, I was physically unable to make work, while my mind kept generating ideas.” During that time of creative stasis, while marooned in his home, Westerkamp envisioned a collection built solely from the clothes he already owned, using just the tools at his disposal to dream himself out of his current environment. “When I was in recovery two years later, Ihellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (20 images)nbsp;