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Exhibition: Antwerpen other fashion proposals
date 01.02.2003 – 01.04.2003
location Museu Tèxtil i d' Indumentària de Barcelona
creation Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària Barcelona (Museum)
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text The editors of the leading magazines, the purchasers of the best stores and the most discerning consumers have been celebrating the revolution in Belgian fashion for over fifteen years now.
In spite of this, Belgian designers are discreet stars. Their creativity, their prudent sense of eccentricity and the radical nature of their proposals are the result of a training process and work methods that have combined new industrial technologies with a long textile tradition, achieved largely thanks to the work of the Flanders Fashion Institute, a structure for the training, support and promotion of new talent, which has made Antwerp become a true temple of Belgian and European fashion. During the 80’s, this small city witnessed six of its young students conquer... [more]


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  1 © Pep Herrero, 2 © Pep Herrero, 3 © Etienne Tordoir

participants A.F. Vandevorst (Fashion Design)
Anke Loh (Fashion Design)
Bernhard Willhelm (Fashion Design)
Bruno Pieters (Fashion Design)
Dirk Schönberger (Fashion Design)
Erik Verdonck (Fashion Design)
Haider Ackermann (Fashion Design)
contribution Tordoir, Etienne ; www.catwalkpictures.com (Photography)


source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI


 
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