Representing the creative future

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Violette des Roseaux doesn’t believe in uniqueness

Fashion schools appraise talent, the industry hard work. How can a young designer find balance?

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Cezary Zalit on coming up with your own plan for a creative career

Exploring why it is important to keep in touch with reality to make wearable clothes

Royal Academy Antwerp  –  Sep 2022

Brandon Wen takes over from Walter Van Beirendonck at the Antwerp Academy

The LA native will replace the iconic tutor and creative director starting this year

Royal Academy Antwerp  –  Dec 2021

Izzy Du: Shapes from another planet

The Chinese-Canadian designer walks us through the process of creating gravity-defying pieces

Graduate Shows  –  Jul 2021

Isolation was introspective for Antwerp’s class of 2021

The renowned Belgian school presented fantasy worlds, without losing touch with reality

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Julia Ballardt: The poetry of punk

The German designer Julia Ballardt is inspired in her collection by the subculture’s signature emblems of belonging.

Royal Academy Antwerp  –  Jun 2020

The thinking behind the first digital show of The Royal Academy of Arts Antwerp

How can dreaming become a tool to create something new?

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Nico Verhaegen designs an ode to nomadic existence

An unusual parallel is drawn between shamans and bike messengers in Verhaegen’s recent graduate collection.

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The unfunctional bags of Julie Kegels

When form does not quite follow function. A lesson in Belgian rebellion.

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Karolina Widecka and design by conspiracy theory

Her MA collection, ‘Where’s the Curve?’, focuses on conspiracy theories and the paranoia they provoke

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How Annemarie Saric is making luxury available for all with her MA collection

The Austrian designer mirrored the streamlined shapes of concept cars, inspired by the beacons of future possibility for her graduate collection to highlight the power of the silhouette

Royal Academy Antwerp  –  Oct 2017

Inside the childhood memories of Antwerp student Julia Ballardt

For her BA collection, Julia Ballardt delved into the homes and castles she invented as a child.