Raf Simons, Martin Margiela, Ann Saelens, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Natan, Tim Van Steenbergen, Jean Paul Knott, Olivier Theyskens, Veronique Branquinho, Jean Paul Lespagnard, Diane von Fürstenberg, Anthony Vaccarello, AF Vandevorst, Haider Ackermann, Bruno Pieters, Annemie Verbeke, Kris Van Assche, Marina Yee, Elvis Pompilio …. BOZAR and MAD Brussels are presenting the major fashion exhibition The Belgians, about the rise and success of around 100 Belgian fashion designers. (6/05-9/13, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels)
The story is told in thematic chapters: the origins, the first fashion houses and the first cautious steps of young designers, the success of the Antwerp Six in the 1980s, the avant-garde generation, the international successes, the fashion schools, the fashion industry, the personal signature of Belgian designers…
image: Martin Margiela SS1991 ∏ Ronald Stoops
