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  • feelslike
    Junior Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 6

    The Antwerp Six


    pic from feelslikeannaorlova.blogspot.com


    The Antwerpreters

    OF ALL THE FASHION HANDLES IN THE HISTORY OF WWD, "TWERP" is probably the least glamourous. But that's how WWD referred to a group of emerging Belgian designers in the summer of 1987. "I Brake for Twerps" was a feature story in a special July supplement called Scene.
    "Nothing this exciting has happened in Antwerp, a Belgian Renaissance port city, since Rubens - the painter, not the sandwich," the paper noted. The Antwerp Six, as they were known, included Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Marina Yee, Walter Van Beirendonck and Dirk Bikkembergs - all alumni of the city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and were considered fashion's next radical wave.

    Though associated with avant-garde, intellectual fashion, it is impossible to define them by one catchall aesthetic. "Brooding and darkly romantic" - the adjectives most often bandied about - describe some, Demeulemeester, for example, but not others. Ditto for the term deconstruction, although fellow Belgian Martin Margiela became one of fashion's most influential designers on that premise. And then there's Van Noten, who, on the strength of his artful, sportif-bohemian inclinations has thrived commercially white keeping his company fiercely independent. The Antwerp Six doors for other Belgian designers, most notably Olivier Theyslens, who after some travails is seeking a new start in the unlikely contemporary realm of Theory, and Raf Simons, who makes minimalism dazzle at Jil Sander.

    by Vanessa Lau
  • surver
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 638

    #2
    correction

    wasn't the Antwerp Six:

    Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs and Martin Margiela???

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    • gnow
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2010
      • 341

      #3
      ^
      It's Marina Yee, not Martin Margiela

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_six or

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      • zamb
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2006
        • 5834

        #4
        Margiela came afterward........he was first an assistant for JPG,
        its interesting who is leading the pack in this picture..............Also looking at this Picture, you can see that Ann had a distinct aesthetic vision from the very beginning......
        “You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
        .................................................. .......................


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        • MikeN
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2007
          • 2205

          #5
          Damn that photo is fantastic

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          • Travel
            Junior Member
            • Apr 2011
            • 4

            #6
            So much inspiring !

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            • michael_kard
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2010
              • 2152

              #7
              Ann's outfit is the only one that does not look dated. Awesome photo.
              ENDYMA / Archival fashion & Consignment
              Helmut Lang 1986-2005 | Ann Demeulemeester | Raf Simons | Burberry Prorsum | and more...

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #8
                Originally posted by surver View Post
                wasn't the Antwerp Six:

                Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs and Martin Margiela???
                Damn, son. Not knowing the names of the Antwerp Six is an SZ cardinal sin. Ten Hail Mary's next week for you.
                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                • gohn
                  Member
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 49

                  #9
                  The Antwerp 6 is just a title for avant garde designers from The Antwerp Academy. The original definition of Antwerp 6 is at least a decade old, and few of them is continuing excellent fashion design. Thats why the list of Antwerp 6 is changing over time. Some media called new avant garde desingers who graduated from Antwerp Academy , such as Kris Van Assche, Raf Simons, Haide Ackermann and so on, as new The Antwerp Six.

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #10
                    /\ lolwut?
                    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                    • ProfMonnitoff
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2007
                      • 556

                      #11
                      Does anyone know what Marina Yee is up to these days?
                      Originally posted by jogu
                      i went out to take garbage out and froze my tits runnin down stairs , think im gonna chill at home tonite . hungry tho anyone have cool ideas on what to order for supper , not pizza tho sick of pizza

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        #12
                        Last I heard she was doing costume design and such.
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • lmaozedong
                          Member
                          • Jan 2010
                          • 69

                          #13
                          Originally posted by michael_kard View Post
                          Ann's outfit is the only one that does not look dated. Awesome photo.
                          Walter Van Beirendonck looks pretty cool in the photo, too. I guess he and Dirk Van Seane have been together since the beginning? I know they run walter together in Antwerp..

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                          • bryantyj
                            Senior Member
                            • Jun 2010
                            • 151

                            #14
                            Originally posted by gohn View Post
                            The Antwerp 6 is just a title for avant garde designers from The Antwerp Academy. The original definition of Antwerp 6 is at least a decade old, and few of them is continuing excellent fashion design. Thats why the list of Antwerp 6 is changing over time. Some media called new avant garde desingers who graduated from Antwerp Academy , such as Kris Van Assche, Raf Simons, Haide Ackermann and so on, as new The Antwerp Six.
                            Thats just because the media always need something to compare with but the Antwerp 6 is and will always be the original few. They sprout at the same time and stuck together struggling to promote themselves by themselves which brought them on a road trip from Antwerp to Paris and thats why we know them today as the Antwerp 6.

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                            • surver
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2007
                              • 638

                              #15
                              found these:



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