Instead of letting extreme emotions fuel me, And pull me in all kinds of directions This time I took a much more contemplative approach to form a new collection Emphasis on NEW. Looking with big eyes at the world as I love to do I came to the realisation That even the best of intentions, The most positive of actions, Can have restrictive...
Jan 28, 2025
Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck said Wednesday that the fashion world was "afraid" of US President Donald Trump and failing to speak out against him for commercial reasons. Talking to AFP after his menswear show at Paris Fashion Week, Van Beirendonck said he hoped more creative people and leaders in fashion would take a stand on Trump's...
Jan 23, 2025
Walter van Beirendonck will once again be a teacher for students. The Belgian fashion designer retired from his position as head of the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp around two years ago, a position he had held since 2007. He is now taking on the role of mentor at Polimoda, the Florentine fashion school...
Aug 15, 2024
Always guaranteed to bring a touch of craziness and colour to Paris Fashion Week, Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck could not help having a dig Wednesday at the megabrands dominating the industry. Even by the veteran designer's zany standards, his latest menswear show was a wildly imaginative collection, featuring jackets with tentacles,...
Jan 18, 2024
Fashion designer and performance artist Brandon Wen will take over from Walter van Beirendonck as the artistic coordinator of fashion training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, starting in September 2022. Wen will also teach at the academy and supervise students. Walter van Beirendonck announced his departure from the academy earlier...
Jun 16, 2022
For Walter van Beirendonck's final graduation show as head of fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp had a lot going for it. A hundred and fifty metres long, double catwalk had been laid across the floor of the Waagnatie, an industrial warehouse on the quay of the Meir. Almost twenty gigantic disco balls were suspended between the...
Jun 9, 2022
In this video, Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck has presented his SS22 menswear collection at Paris Men's Fashion Week (PFW). Watch the video below. Video: Walter Van Beirendonck via Vimeo
Jun 24, 2021
Farfetch has teamed up with vintage specialist House of Liza to launch a collection of Walter Van Beirendonck archive pieces, featuring 122 original designs from the Belgium designer’s body of work over the past 33 years. “There couldn’t be a better time for a reappraisal of Walter van Beirendonck’s design legacy: his influence can be seen on an...
Jun 24, 2019
Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2018-19 collection by Walter Van Beirendonck, Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture. Source: FF Channel, YouTube.
Jul 16, 2018
It may already be too late...But as Britain prepares to vote on whether to leave the EU, the Little England look has suddenly become fashionable. Cricket jumpers, brogues, boating blazers and even neo-Morris men popped up on the Paris catwalk Wednesday. Nor is fashion's new-found anglophilia confined to the upper classes. Sweatpants, parkas,...
Jun 23, 2016
The world is about to go all baggy. As stock markets tumble and economists talk of more tightening of belts, fashion has gone supersized, with Paris catwalks overflowing Wednesday with outsized overcoats and baggy trousers. If the first day of the menswear catwalks shows is anything to go by, men will be flapping around in too-long trousers and...
Jan 21, 2016
London - The old debate of teaching bodies and whether students should be prepared better for the 'real' world has never been as relevant to fashion students as it is today. With saturated markets, overflowing fashion week calendars and store shelves piled to the hilt with fashion brands, it would be fair to say the world is no longer waiting...
Aug 26, 2015
