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You have to cite real revolutionaries like him for leading the way. It is evening in the village of Zandhoven, a minute drive east of Antwerp, where Van Beirendonck lives in a large 19th-century house, which sits on an expansive property covered by wild grass and old trees. He is about to travel to Tokyo to collaborate with Kawakubo on a new T-shirt. Van Beirendonck was born in and grew up in the same small village where he lives today.
His parents owned an auto-repair garage and gas station, and Van Beirendonck was mostly raised by his grandmother and his oldest sister. At 12, he was sent to boarding school in Lier, southeast of Antwerp, where he kept to himself, sketching and writing in his diary.
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He knew he was gay at 14, and came out to his family without much of an issue. At 18, he picked up a Dutch magazine called Avenue, which described the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp; he enrolled the next year, in Founded in , the academy was known for its classical pedagogy, emphasizing art over commercialism — its fashion department, created in , was a relatively new addition. At the Royal Academy, Van Beirendonck discovered the rigors and ambition of design, as well as a coterie of like-minded friends.
In his class was the prodigious Martin Margiela , who a decade later would be working in Paris for the designer Jean Paul Gaultier while launching his namesake line. There was also a burgeoning experimental theater scene led by the young director Ivo van Hove. Like its European neighbors to the east and north, stolid Belgium — with its Magritte -gray skies and cobblestone streets — was rapidly transforming. Different in their aesthetic leanings but similar in their drive, Van Beirendonck and his schoolmates formed a clique.
What they made thrilled a generation of young designers, who saw in their abandonment of old mores a chance for reinvention.
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Ann Demeulemeester was more on the darker side. Everybody brought a different element in the group and everybody learned from everybody. Upon graduating in , Van Beirendonck began styling and designing for the Belgian raincoat company Barston. His classmates took on commercial jobs as well. But they were still putting everything they earned back into their own collections; Van Beirendonck debuted his first, Sado, in he titles all of his collections.
Bruloot showcased their designs as a collective at a London fashion fair; it drew interest from buyers in New York and Paris. The group was nicknamed the Antwerp or Belgian Six to avoid the difficulty of pronouncing their Flemish names. Suddenly, it seemed as though the center of the fashion world was, if not moving away, then expanding beyond Paris and London — New York, Milan, Tokyo and even Antwerp were offering new models for how to be a designer, for new clothes.
Kawakubo showed her collection for the first time in Paris in and was shocking people with her colorless, strange and experimental designs. Yohji Yamamoto would show a year later. Fashion was shifting from traditionally feminine and masculine shapes and silhouettes toward something new and undefined. For a young designer, then, there was suddenly space — both existentially and physically — to take risks. Who knew what tomorrow would bring? Unsurprisingly, nearly all of the Antwerp Six won the Golden Spindle within the first decade of its creation.
This was also the period in which Van Beirendonck fell in love. Together they have formed one of those rare artistic partnerships in which they are each present to witness the other.
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So did so many of the artists and creative people who we looked up to. They have been leitmotifs ever since — the fall collection, Lust Never Sleeps, featured more bondage masks, made from a tan leather and tweed, evocative of a British dandy — half respectable, half subversive.
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