The capital of vanguard fashion and classic
Flemish art
Just 2 hours away from London, there is a city that opened Pieter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck to the world, as well as Martin Margiela, Dries van Noten, and the famous Antwerp Six who shook up London Fashion Week in 1986, redefining the attitude to deconstructivism, conceptualism, and Belgian design.
and a former teacher of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, taught his students, and visit creative studios and dress shops. We’ll explore the collections of Flemish artists and the progressive collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Following that, over dinner at the city’s top restaurants, we'll talk about the creative scene in Antwerp that sparked art and design revolutions in the 16th and 20th centuries.
We will see private concept stores and talk to their owners, we’ll find out what Walter van Beirendonck, a designer from The Six