Antwerp's emerging designers capture the city's casual magic
Briefly

Antwerp's reputation as a birthplace for sartorial tastemakers is unparalleled. The explosion of the Antwerp Six in the early '80s... signaled that the Royal Academy of Fine Arts was an incubator for innovative fashion talent.
Recent graduates from both the Royal Academy and La Cambre Mode[s] are poised to continue this legacy of cutting-edge clothing design. Whether inspired by spontaneous sketches on cheap paper or passing strangers, these emerging designers employ a perspective unique to Antwerp to push the bounds of style.
The collection started from a single word—'sonder', the realization that people and surroundings [move] on their own, [separate from your life]. I focused on that split-second image of your surroundings, and how that memory is processed as a vague composite of textures, shapes, and details. The garments in the collection are structured with a specific point of view, as if the whole information about the scene [appeared at that] particular angle of the silhouette.
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