Fashionistas will know immediately who Natalie is, but for our readers who are less interested in fashion: Natalie Joos is a Belgian casting agent who has been living half of her life in New York. Maybe her last name will ring a bell, the I Love Belgium team already interviewed her sister Evelien who is also living in New York. With her sense of style Natalie was noticed by The Sartorialist, Tommy Ton and other streetstyle photographers. Read the rest of this entry »
Next up is Poppositions founder and director Liv Vaisberg. Conceived as an experiment with the art fair format, Poppositions is a pop-up fair changing location for each edition and featuring artists proposed by galleries and organisations working with site-specific exhibitions. They want to provide an alternative to the white cube environment of standard fairs while nurturing high artistic standard. Read the rest of this entry »
This time of the year Brussels is flooded with art lovers and art collectors from all over the world. Yes, it’s Art Brussels and thanks to the success and reputation of Belgium’s art mothership a whole series of art events is organized around the city. Thanks to SLICK, the biggest off art fair of Art Brussels, who came to Brussels for the first time last year, the area around WIELS in the commune of Forest has become the real off neighbourhood of Art Brussels. Read the rest of this entry »
We first noticed Pierre-Antoine Vettorello about three years ago with his graduate collection at the Antwerp Academy. This summer we rediscovered his talent at Fashionclash, a young designers platform. His capacity to design outstanding shapes in combination with unique textile design makes Pierre-Antoine distinctive in the giant designer pool. Read the rest of this entry »
Before we start this article we want to thank someone and that someone is you. Thank you! Why? Well, all your voting assured us a nomination for a Weekend Blog Award in the category Design. As you might assume, there were some happy dances going on at the I Love Belgium headquarters! But don’t worry, we’ll keep our focus and fulfill our task on delivering your daily portion of Belgian creativity.
And now it’s up to you again. Go the the Flemish part of the Weekend Blog Awards page and vote for us (sadly we’re not present on the French site). So click the button and spread the word! Love – The I Love Belgium Team
Tanguy Ottomer is known as ‘the guide’ of Antwerp, or more often referred to as the ‘beroepsantwerpenaar’ (=Antwerp native by profession). Tanguy is a man with a self-invented job, in a way you can call him a designer, as it is his ambition to design guided tours. Read the rest of this entry »
The 16th of September Izumi Hongo and her (life)partner Thomas Verdeyen opened their first Van Hongo shop in Belgium. Until now the young Belgian label only had points of sale in Tokyo and Chicago. The designer Izumi decided to make her atelier in the back of the shop, so she can be saleswoman in her own store. A good opportunity we thought to go make a little interview with this interesting designer. Read the rest of this entry »
contributors! The I Love Belgium team is looking for motivated, high-spirited people who want to contribute to I Love Belgium. Do you also feel higly about Belgium? Read the rest of this entry »
A slogan for a popular Belgian jobpaper once was “one day you’ll find the job of your life, and than you’re off”. And that’s what Laurent Dombrowicz did. Laurent, a Liège native, graduated from INSAS (University for Theater and Film Industry, Brussels) as film director in 1987. Read the rest of this entry »
Maybe her name doesn’t ring a bell immediately, but she’s a girl making it in the big city. The I Love Belgium team has known Evelien already for a long time. She was one of the lights of the party in the Ghent scene early 2000 but the city next to the Leie river became too small and she created her own version of Bright lights, big city and moved to the Big Apple. A personal style and an unstoppable energy, meet Evelien Joos, photo editor at V Magazine and Vman. Read the rest of this entry »
