Brave New World
VIEW STYLE BRAVE NEW WORLD The fashion-forward cities of Antwerp and Tokyo are taking over as the new style capitals, À LA MODE says SAHAR KHAN The ModeNatie houses the Flanders Fashion Institute and the fashion museum. Left: the ANTWERP standout piece from For her graduate show collec- D’Heygere’s collection tion, a fanciful amalgam of man and beast called Human- imalus, Stephanie D’Heygere, front of that undecipherable Veronique Branquinho, creative direc- recent alumnus of the prestig- style. Margiela became both a tor of Delvaux, the world’s oldest luxe ious Royal Academy of Fine mainstream magnet and cult leather goods company, says, “In Antwerp, Arts in Antwerp, included a icon. Maison Martin Margiela, you can find the facilities of a metropolis chocolate blouse with a leath- now headed by a design team, with the cosiness of a charming village.” er sleeve fashioned into a bird continues his eccentric vision. Much of Antwerp’s talent has been ex- head, with a wooden beak and For spring, they presented a ported. Raf Simons designs for German black and yellow feathers. flat, square trench coat, tuxe- fashion house Jil Sander. Its reductionist “Antwerp style is eclectic,” do jacket and Oxford shirt, philosophy plays well with Simons’ clean- says D’Heygere, head designer stiff as a cardboard and appar- cut concepts, like the T-shirt-gown com- of leg wear line BEEN. “It’s ently stitched upon one. binations he presented for spring. Dior about expressing individuali- This quirky, postmodernist Homme’s artistic director Kris Van Ass- ty.” D’Heygere is one in a long glamour is melded with a clas- che presents in Paris, but his look is Bel- line of designers who have bro- sic sensibility in this city of gian.
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