Dear Shaded Viewers,
Wouters & Hendrix, long-time purveyors of alt-luxe mischief, are up to their signature tricks—this time, hand-in-hand with Meryll Rogge, the Belgian fashion darling rewriting all the rules. It’s a pairing that feels both delightfully unpredictable and, after one dose of their combined eccentricity, completely inevitable.
Meryll Rogge, who rocketed from the runways of Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten to the top of 2025’s fashion power rankings—she nabbed the ANDAM prize, launched a cult-status knitwear line, and, oh yes, is about to take the reins at Marni—brings a kind of rainbow-hued, fearless anarchy to the table. Her Spring/Summer 2026 collection, conceived as a love letter to Cookie Mueller’s rule-breaking biography, revels in those wild souls who thrive on the edge and refuse to be boxed in. This season is for chameleons—people who color outside the lines, worship the peculiar, and turn a cold shoulder to the concept of “just one thing”.
Enter Wouters & Hendrix, Antwerp’s resident surrealist jewellers, who see the absurd as a playground, not a warning sign. The brand’s one-off, runway-only pieces for Rogge are bold in intent as they are in silhouette: picture pearls acting out, locked in a tug-of-war with industrial-scale hardware; cool moonlit silvers; mathematical mesh gripping perfectly placed spheres with the kind of precision that dares you to touch. There’s a delicious sense of contradiction: delicate and punk, sentimental and sly. Loops suggest escape hatches; studs feel like talismans; some pieces literally cradle memories, as if designed to let you keep a secret—or a ghost—right next to your skin.
Both houses may orbit the storied Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, but their kindred spirits are pure Belgian: a love of radical craft, a dash of irreverence, all rooted in the anarchy of the Antwerp Six’s lineage. Rogge’s penchant for joyful ambiguity finds a perfect counterpoint in Wouters & Hendrix’s sly subversions. Together, they spin a kind of refined chaos—artisanal yet insouciant, cerebral yet a little bit dangerous.
Forget commerce—this capsule is NFT-rare, strictly two-of-each, and impossible to buy. It’s a wearable paean to Antwerp’s taste for elegant anarchy and the regional knack for making the weird feel divine.
About Wouters & Hendrix
Since 1984, Wouters & Hendrix is about blending craftsmanship and surprise. Born in an avant-garde moment, we bend the rules of traditional jewellery making and wearing. Subtle rebels with a love for surrealism, we are drawn to unexpected combinations of materials and techniques. Each design, handmade in our Antwerp atelier, conducts a dialogue with subversive art, surrealist symbolism and outstanding craft.
www.wouters-hendrix.com // @woutershendrix
About Meryll Rogge
Meryll Rogge is a ready-to-wear label based in Belgium. A contemporary wardrobe infused by surprising associations, it offers classic and sturdy pieces revisited with a sense of unexpected beauty. Drawing simultaneously from the radical simplicity of menswear and the exquisite sophistication and coquetterie of eveningwear, the label seeks to establish a joyfully ambivalent style – one made of fortuitous connections and pragmatic sartorial decisions. A strong and bold idea of femininity as a creative principle and a firm belief in the long lasting qualities of standards, both in shapes and materials, define the label’s identity.
Crafting a forward-looking style imbued with a true love of the past, the label dresses a free-spirit individual who favors the assertion of the individual self over norms and repetitions. Meryll Rogge is a creative director, hailing from both Antwerp and New York, whose ever-shifting approach to fashion embraces the ultra-masculine just as effortlessly as the decorative opulence of the feminine.
Later,
Diane
