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Walter Van Beirendonck
Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream The World Awake/ MoMu Online Archive
The Antwerp Fashion Museum (MoMu) is currently showing the first big solo retrospective of fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck entitled “Dream the World Awake”, which opened on September 9 and will run until February 2. The exhibition shows Walter’s work of three decades, reveals his sources of inspiration and investigates central topics of his designs. It also features a collaborative project between Walter, photographer Nick Knight and stylist Simon Foxton, who together have worked on a fashion film, which presents some sort of “best of” of the designer’s work, as well as on a huge photomontage (detail on top), which seems to be one of the highlights of the exhibition (you can watch the video below and scroll through the whole image on SHOWstudio). It will appear as a retrospective editorial in the Autumn/Winter issue of GQ Style.
Furthermore, the MuMa also has digitalized all videos of Walter’s past collections and will post two of them every week on this page. I posted one of the first two ones below, it’s the runway show of the W< Winter 1996/1997 collection “Wonderland” (the other one is a rather boring video of the exhibition opening). For more detailed information about the show check out the MoMu website + there are also interviews with Walter about the exhibition on Dazed Digital and on AnOther Web.
Wali Mohammed Barrech: “Reset” (Collection 2011)
Wali Mohammed Barrech is a third year student at the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, where he has studied under my all-time fashion hero Walter van Beirendonck. Barrech’s latest collection was recently presented at the department’s 2011 student show and deals with questions raised by the progress in modern medicine and the way pharmaceutical drugs affect our lives. You can read more about his intentions in this info sheet that accompanies the collection. Here’s the official shooting of “Reset”, I picked 9 of i think 13 pictures.
Walter Van Beirendonck SS 2012 “Cloud #9″ @ Paris Fashion Week
Walter Van Beirendonck Menswear A/W 2011/2012
“It’s all about a new kind of shamanism, so it’s about the spiritual world, and I feel we’re going towards a new spiritual world” This is how Walter Van Beirendonck explains his motives behind his new collection in an interview published a couple of hours ago on Dazed Digital. I’m not really sure what I should think about the fact that on the runway of the Paris Fashion Week the clothes were presented only by black models, I guess there’s a certain exotism about that that can surely be critizised. Nevertheless it is one of the most beautiful collections I’ve ever seen. Check out Coute Que Coute for the complete series of pictures in a higher resolution.
Craig Green’s Graduate Collection
Craig Green is a London-based fashion design BA graduate who studies at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Green has interned for Walter Van Beirendonck and has just won a young talent award of the headwear brand New Era for his very own idea of a baseball cap. The collection he designed for his BA graduation has recenty been featured on Dazed Digital, where you also find an interview with him,in which he explains that the very 3-dimensional designs are influenced by an Russian robot character as well as “old tins toys, sexual fantasies and home made fancy dress”. You find another beautiful (and a little sexier) shooting of the collection by photographer David Poole as well as some illustrations by Green and an article about him on Poole’s Slashstroke Magazine. The pictures posted below and on Dazed have been taken for 21 Up Magazine and were realized in collaboration with Jeii Hong. Craig is currently working on is MA.
Manon Kündig: Teddy Beard Collection
Manon Kündig is today featured in Dazed Digital’s “The Joy Of Six”-series curated by Walter Van Beirendonck, who has picked out some of his favourite students from the Royal Academy of Antwerp. “Teddy Beard” is Kündig’s 2nd-year-collection, you find the complete shooting over at DD.
Dazed & Confused: “The Joy Of Six” Shooting (Walter Van Beirendonck Special)
The September issue of Dazed & Confused pays tribute to Walter van Beirendonck. The magazine features an interview with the fashion designer about the contexts of his work, his inspirational sources and his work as a designer as the Antwerp Royal Academy. The also present a photo shooting by Scott Trindle and Robbie Spencer, which shows a selection of the designer’s past creations. The interview can also be found on the Dazed website, which is also worth visiting, because in reference to Van Beirendoncks’s former membership in the avant garde fashion group “Antwerp Six” the page currently presents profiles of six of his most promising students and some more pictures of his past collections.
Here’s are the pictures of the shooting shown in the printed version of the magazine (the picture on top is also part of it). The complete feature can be found on Live Is Not A Rehearsal.
East Village Boys: Walter Van Beirendonck SS 2010
Here’s a preview of James Chiang‘s beautiful shooting of Walter Van Beirendonck‘s spring/summer 2010 collection for East Village Boys, which was published over there today. Click here for the complete shooting. Well done, guys!
Walter Van Beirendonck: Furry Fashion (II)
The following pictures are showing beary models in outfits of the spring/summer 2010 collection called “WonderfuR” by Antwerp Fashion designer Walter van Beirendonck. It was shown on friday at the Paris fashion week. You find the whole gallery here and other pictures of the show here. First link via CTRL+W33D.
