To the untrained eye, Antwerp would seem to be just a beautiful Belgian city. However, it is an important location and proved to be a place of distinction that changed fashion history.
The Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Art is an established art college that takes only the best fashion designers. In 1988, six graduates from the Academy changed the edge of fashion at London Fashion Week. They were deemed the Antwerp Six. These six designers including, Walter Van Beirendonck and Ann Demeulemeester, used Binary opposites such as fetish and innocence as well as scale and disproportion. They were seen to be a stark contrast to the functional clothes that were prominent in the 1980s’.
Successful avant-garde designers such as Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayn and Yohji Yamamoto have all followed the lead of the Antwerp Six and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art.
Antwerp is seen, in the world of fashion, as the foundation for deconstructionalism and thought provoking designs.
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