| Marlies Dekkers | |
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| Born | 29 November 1965 Oosterhout, Netherlands |
| Residence | Amsterdam |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Labels | marlies |
Marlies Dekkers (Oosterhout, 29 November 1965) is a Dutch fashion designer known for her lingerie line Undressed.
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Marlies Dekkers was born in Oosterhout, the Netherlands. She studied at the Art school in Breda, from which she graduated cum laude (with distinction) in 1991. With the aid of a government grant, she launched, two years later in 1993, her first collection of items under the fashion label Undressed, heralded at the time as a new approach to designing lingerie.
In 1996, Dekkers married Peter Wagenaar, a photographer. The couple has one daughter Zilver (Silver in Dutch). Wagenaar was also a member of the board of Marlies Dekkers' company. When the couple divorced in 2006, Wagenaar also left the company.
The Marlies Dekkers brand (stylized in print as "marlies|dekkers") has established 1000 points of sale worldwide and Marlies Dekkers stores are located in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Paris, Bangkok, Berlin and Cologne. A store was briefly opened in New York from December 2008 to March 2009.[1]
In the end of 2008 there was also a store open in Utrecht.