Alexander van Slobbe discussed his work:

Only when I approached the flower pyramid as a body, with feet and a head, did I realise how I could, as a fashion designer, participate in this community. The idea of a body helped me to get it right: I wanted a clear structure, with a base and a top, and I wanted to use various elements from the world of fashion. My vase is in fact a pile of quotations and elements, which call up fantasies of femininity, although of course it can take the odd tulip as well. The first part is a little stool, a reference to Rietveld and Dutch modernism: the last part is a bow that, like a little crown, keeps all the elements together. In between we'll find a classic wash basin, a hand mirror and a mulberry box with a couture dress from Orson+Bordil hidden inside, a series of little perfume bottles, and an enlarged cream jar filled with Makkum clay. My vase is not primarily intended to carry that 17th century symbol of affluence, a tulip; rather it is the carrier of an idea; an outrageously luxurious wrapping of an idea called fashion.

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