11
Mar
2013
If you have seen people in the streets of Paris with enormous eye bags a week ago, they must be fashion people exhausted of the fashion weeks they have been attending. No, not everyone’s last name is Wintour and gets chauffeured around in black cars with tainted windows. Most of the journalists, stylists, bloggers, buyers are random fashionistas walk, bike or take public transport (can you imagine!) to all the different fashion shows and presentations. And the real work still has to start! Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Stijn Verlinden - Tagged with: A.F. Vandevorst, Anthony Vaccarello, dior, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, raf simons
1
Feb
2013
What do Raf Simons, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Rogers, François Mitterand, The Belgian Royal Family and Valentino have in common? They all have worked together with landscape architect Jaques Wirtz! This contemporary landscape architect became renowned and praised for his sculpture like treatment of hedges. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Tom Tack - Tagged with: Architecture, dior, gardens, hedges, Landscaping, Wirtz
31
Aug
2012
Our readers are used to reading interviews with one person, so this unique: this is the first group interview on I Love Belgium. We’re interviewing 254forest a creative studio based in Brussels covering the field of photography – film – music – production and post production.
Some examples of people they work with: V Magazine, Nicola Formichetti, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused and to finish this list of namedropping: they are art director for rafsimons.com so we’re sure they will be doing projects for Dior, now that Raf is also designing the collection… Talented graphic studio
Codefrisko just designed their
brand new website, the perfect time to sit down with the team and have a creative talk.
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Written by Stijn Verlinden - Tagged with: 254forest, Another Magazine, Codefrisko, Dazed & Confused, dior, Fashion, film, Music, Nicola Formichetti, Photography, raf simons
10
Apr
2012
A few months ago we already talked about the rumour, but now the die has been cast: Raf Simons for Dior. And because of this great news, we want to revisit Raf’s earliest work. His first collection was all about English schoolboys and their uniforms. Characteristics were the very tight silhouette and the classical materials in dark colours. Back in 1995, the collection was presented with three large black/white pictures of two street-spotted boys and a video (watch it here). For the next 10 years of his career, we have a look at his book titled “Redux”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Tom Tack - Tagged with: belgium, book, dior, Fashion, men, Photography, raf simons, Redux
17
Dec
2011
I guess you heard it already: Raf Simons to design Dior. Yes, the rumour mill churns again. This time it was leading fashion magazine WWD who featured the news. And where’s WWD smoke there’s a huge fashion fire! Unlike most blogs we decided not to talk about his design aesthetics, instead we chose to visit his Antwerp apartment. Following our belief that there’s a strong connection between the “way of living” and “way of working”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Tom Tack - Tagged with: Antwerp, Apartment, Art, Design, dior, interior, Jil Sander, raf simons
17
Mar
2010
Sonny Vandevelde is a Belgian-Australian fashion photographer living between Belgium and the outback. Born in Europe but raised on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. He had his first camera when he was about 7 , and really got into it more when he started school, taking pictures of friends , excursions etc…After school he went to college to further his photographic skills, but it only lasted about 3 months, as he felt he wasn’t learning anything, so he packed his bags and went to the snowy mountains with his best friend, Craig. From there he got into Sports photography, doing a lot of free style ski-ing photos, doing covers for the Australian ski magazines, and quickly got picked up to do the shootings for Quicksilver. Read the rest of this entry »
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Written by Stijn Verlinden - Tagged with: backstage, cacharel, dior, Fashion, galliano, lanvin, Photography, sonny, vandevelde
