MOOI Festival Antwerp

Y/Project

MOOI Festival, a festival about the beautiful things in fashion of the future,  took place in Antwerp 29 and 30 October in de Studio in Antwerp.

Villanella art center opened up a dialogue with the fashion world. In collaboration with designer, innovator and curator Bruno Pieters, the festival showed the state of the mind of the 'sustainable'  fashion scene in Antwerp and provided a platform for debate aiming to stimulate the start of a new way of thinking that will activate both new as established players in the industry to think.

The two day festival contained exhibition, Labo, talks and a fabric fair.
Exhibition curated by Bruno Pieters displayed Antwerp fashion talent that approaches fashion from ethical, sustainable and responsible point of view. The exhibition featured work by
Y/Project, Rombaut, Jan Jan Van Essche, Daniel Andresen, Katrien Van Hecke, Ilke Cop and innovative projects such as The Post Couture Collective and Honest By.
Labo programme showed innovative techniques and initiatives by Martijn van Strien and Freitag.
Another innovative project that had its first presentation is 
TexUp that showed the results of Textiel Upcyclage Labo. This is a thinktank platform where fashion and costume designers, product developers and artists meet. The residual clothes and linen from the Radisson Blu Hotel are reused through innovative, circular and creative techniques.
Five selected fashion and costume designers, product developers and artists from the Lab took on the leftover hotel textiles and designed firsthand pieces. The designers were coached by Ilke Cop and Lisa Konno.

http://www.mooi-festival.com

All images by brankopopovicblog

Willa Stoutenbeek in conversation with Walter van Beirendonck

Mémoire Universelle by Benoit Bethume at Hunting and Collecting

Mémoire Universelle by Benoit Bethume world premiere took place last night at Hunting and Collecting concept store in Brussels.

In connection with the premiere of Mémoire Universelle there was an fashion installation in collaboration with: Anthony Vaccarello, Céline De Schepper, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Own, Tim van Steenbergen, Veronique Leroy, Didier Vervaeren, Cedric Charlier, Stephanie Croibien, Mademoiselle Jean, Olivia Hainaut, Christian Wijnants, Sandrina Fasoli, Jan Jan van Essche, JEANPAULKNOTT, Louise Leconte.

Since he was a child, Benoît Bethume has collected and stored thousands of images in his head. Depictions of the beautiful, the scarce, the incongruous, of the posing woman and the staggering man, the silent child, the photographer, the bow in the hair, the vague gaze, of time, day, night, trouble: these images are sorted and classified in a manner that is exclusively his own.
A renowned stylist and curatorial associate for titles that include I-D, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle and L’Express Style, he also functions as an advisor to brands that include Carven, Véronique Leroy, Paule Ka, Petit Bateau. With unrivalled clarity of vision, he is an image consultant, an emotional interpreter, a visual narrator. And a photographer. And Belgian – from Namur. And the designer of this issue of Mémoire Universelle (M.U), the first of a series of nine, called Oh, l’Amour!

Spread over 300 pages, structured into four main chapters, and featuring four different cover designs, this extended edition of Mémoire Universelle documents the trail of the heart, bound and illustrated. Not a magazine, but perhaps a bookzine, – a vast work that leaves room for reflection, image creation, interviews, and stories. All with a certain lightness, due in part to the gravity of the subject: love, with all its facets and obsessive tendencies. These pages document the fashion, art, cinema, and music that bring Benoît Bethume’s images to life: his words, characters, and locations set firmly in stone.”

http://www.huntingandcollecting.com