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I’ve been rocking my Palladium Baggy Lites for since the summer and so far they have been my good friends across Belgium, Amsterdam, Toronto, and a handful of summer music festivals like Digital Dreams and IDentity. When I ordered them, I was a bit …
Highlights of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2012 – Being featured in Vice’s scathing critique of post-modernist art and e-tard exploitation. – Douglas Coupland’s Museum for the End Of the World. Maybe I missed a few things but it would have been enough for me if none …
This is so incredibly à propos, especially after the awesome lecture I had at the Antwerp University’s Fashion Management lecture in Fashion Tourism from Prof. Craik!
Ok, so it’s not exactly a high-end label cross over like Diet Coke and Jean-Paul Gaulthier as in Europe but it’s still kind of a fun and funky project that will no doubt be tapping into somebody’s fashion friendly pockets. From the press release, the …
! If yesterday’s trip to the Van De Velde lingerie factory was a highlight for the guys, the Brussels Delvaux factory tour was clearly the ‘must see’ moment for the ladies. Delvaux is a Belgian luxury handbag company founded in 1829, a year before Belgian …
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 firm tried to demystify the …
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 end. At the time of …
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 business, finding capital, not just …
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.
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 our morning class on a …