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Exhibition: 6+. Antwerp Fashion at the Flemish Parliament
date 25.01.2007 – 23.06.2007
location The Flemish Parliament Brussels
creation MoMu - Modemuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Museum)
curator Bruloot, Geert (Theory/Journalism)
url www.momu.be

text In cooperation with the ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen – Momu (Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp), the Flemish Parliament is organising the exhibition 6+. Antwerp Fashion at the Flemish Parliament.
6+, referring to ‘The Six of Antwerp’ (Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee), describes the international success story of Antwerp fashion.
The plus sign in the title refers to Martin Margiela on the one hand, because he is often bracketed together with ‘The Six’ and on the other hand to the next generation of designers who have always added new aspects to the Antwerp identity.

MoMu has invited Geert Bruloot, who has been keeping up with the Antwerp fashion scene since the beginning of... [more]


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  1 Campaign Image. © Patrick Robyn for Ann Demeulemeester 1989, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 2-10 © Pat Verbruggen

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Book
Debo, Kaat ; Bruloot, Geert: 6+. Antwerp Fashion. Gent: Ludion, 2006-01-25


source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI


 
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