The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 3 – FINANCING!
I’m scared of numbers and not actually in a position to be mapping out finances for my own fashion design collection, or someone elses, so today’s topic was naturally intimidating. But Raf Vermeiren of CultuurInvest, a cultural loan and investment…
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 1 – MOMU
The MoMu or ModeMuseum is Antwerp’s fashion collection archive, housed within the prestigious Antwerp Fashion Academy where 60 out of 500 applicants get in every year, and only an average of 8 eke it out to the bitter yet beautiful…
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 2 – Challenges & Strategies in Fashion Business – An Moons
Day Two was a crash course in organizational planning for up and coming fashion designers and business owners. An Moons helped outline some of the biggest pitfalls that are encountered in the Belgian indpendant design field. As with any creative…
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 1 – LUNCH!
A light champagne lunch (they really know how to do it right in Belgium!) was hosted in the reception room attached to the wedding chapel inside Antwerp’s stunning city hall.
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 1 – Fashion Tourism & Global Culture
Our first lecture of the week was kicked off by Professor Jennifer Craik of the School of Fashion & Textiles at the RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia, author of The Face Of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion. Prof. Craik took…
Jesse Dreams of Belgium: The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 1
It’s been a few years since I’ve found myself back in school. After some lucky timing on a pre-planned trip to Belgium and the right ‘network’, I’ve again found myself in a university lecture hall, a situation I have not…
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 2 – Van De Velde Lingerie tour!
At last the moment all the guys on the tour had been waiting for, the tour of the Van de Velde Holdings lingerie factory in Schellebelle! Ok, I kid, although I’m sure some had some funny ideas of what to…
The Antwerp Fashion Management Summer School Experience – Day 2 – Business Models in Fashion 101 – Walter Van Andel
The second half of the morning was dominated by author and marketing, research and business consultant Walter Van Andel, who gave me another much needed crash course focused on business models in the fashion industry. The lecture gave me flashbacks of…