Antwerp wrap up

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Lucky me, Sonny Vandevelde came to pick me up at Central Station. That place is huge, but beautiful, and not that easy to find the exit. He took me to the lovely Mantilope Hotel where I received a warm reception and had a lovely room.

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Mantilope Hotel

Normally I arrive in time for the jury visits but today I was running a bit late so I visited the designers with Anne Chapelle and Raissa Verhaeghe from bvba32 and Ann Deumeulmeester and her husband and Vincent Vantomme from Link Unlimited and of course, Sonny. For those of you who don’t know who Anne Chapelle is, she is the force behind designers Ann Demeulmeester and Haider Ackermann and considered one of the most powerful fashion business women in Belgium.

The first person we saw was David Flamee from the Flanders Fashion Institute. The first time we met, years ago, he was on the cover of the catalogue for the school show dressed as an angel complete with white wings and from that time on I’ve always seen him that way.
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David Flamee and Sonny Vandevelde

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Yuima Nakazato and those amazing shoes

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Hung Qui La and his ‘Monkeys Made me Do it’ collection.

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Antonin Tron explains his collection to us.

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Antonin Tron

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Romain Brau with his ‘The Lost Saphire’ collection

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Damien Fredriksen Ravn
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Narelle Dore

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Christian Wijnants just back from Israel with his new look and Christopher De Vos, he is one half of the brand Peter Pilotto and feeling very happy as he just received the news that he will receive the New Generation support for his LFW show. I will be in London to report on the other winners in a few days.

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Ann Eckers explains her ‘Networkers’ collection

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Ann Eckers

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Joeri Van Yper

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Lluis Corujo Besga

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Sonny Vandevelde

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Simon-Pierre Toussaint

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Andrea Cammarosano

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Tonia Geissbuehler and ‘Who is the rooster who is my chicken’ collection

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Yu Fukumoto releasing his butterflies and talking with Vincent Vantomme from Link Unlimited.

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Yu Fukumoto ‘The Collector’

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EK Thongprasert

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EK Thongprasert

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Glenn Martens

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Glenn Martens

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Glenn with Patrick de Muynck

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TIm Blanks, Style.com and member of the jury and Yvonne Dekock Grafiek, teacher

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Laurence Bruyninckx

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Walter Van Beirendonck and Kris Van Assche

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Tim Blanks enjoying being with the beautiful Anouck Lepeire at the dinner before the show.

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the front row, I’ll post images of Sonny’s later from the show.

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l’Enfant Terrible and Anouck Lepeire and Jefferson Hack

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Jean Paul Lespagnard and Pierre Debusschere at Bruno Pieters birthday party. Actually his birthday is the 17th. Sonny and I decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator and ran into Ann Eckers of the children’s collection.

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Designers Peter Bertsch and David Szeto

The following day was the brunch and the awards ceremony.

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Yu Fukumoto, he won several prizes for his ‘The Collector’ collection with Patrick de Muynck
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Vincent from Madriz magazine and Laurence Bruyninckx who won several prizes for her India inspired collection.

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Sonny Vandevelde and the Australians, to his right is the designer Narelle Dore and to her right the editor in chief of a new magazine called ‘They shoot homos, don’t they”. A twist on the 1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack with Jane Fonda. And from Spain, Vincent from Madriz Magazine and designer Lluis Corujo Besga.

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Yuima Nakazato won several prizes and Antonin Tron of the very appreciated mens’ collection with a very happy NEW GEN award winner, Christopher De Vos, he is one half of the brand .

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Surrounded by 9 of the 16 members of the Class of 2008 and a quick stop to check out the screening room for You Wear it Well 2 at the YY auditorium Nationalestraat 28, enter through the Mode Museum.

This was pretty funny, Jarno Kettunen asked me if he could draw my portrait and as time was very short, I asked him to meet me on the train platform. We amassed quite a crowd of spectators. Jarno’s style is quite abstract, he looks at the subject but not at the paper. He managed to get 3 done before my train came.

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Not only did Ali Mahdavi make my train ride a total pleasure but he was an angel and dropped me off at my apartment and even carried my luggage, which felt like a ton of bricks, up my stairs. I must admit, I do love to travel but carrying my luggage is one of my least favorite things.

Later,

Diane

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Diane Pernet

A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN FASHION and a pioneer of blogging, Diane is a respected journalist, critic, curator and talent-hunter based in Paris. During her prolific career, she designed her own successful brand in New York, costume designer, photographer, and filmmaker.

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