Jean Paul Knott Belgian Fashion Designer

Jean Paul Knott Portrait

Born in 1966 Belgium, Jean-Pauls career began with a placement with Yves Saint Laurent in Paris and eventually assisted Saint Laurent himself on Haute Couture.
Jean-Paul Knott is a Belgium born fashion designer who graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 1988.
At the turn of the millennium, Knott started his own ready [...]

Dries Van Noten Belgian fashion designer

Dries Van Noten Designer

Born in Antwerp in 1958, Dries Van Noten is the third generation in a family of tailors.
Between the two world wars, his grandfather reworked second-hand clothes by turning them inside out. In 1970 Dries’ father opened an upscale fashion boutique in the outskirts of Antwerp followed by a second outlet in the [...]

Ann Demeulemmeester Belgian Fashion Designer

Ann Demeulemeester Designer

Born in Belgium in 1959, Ann Demeulemmeester studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium between 1978 and 1980.
She hired a truck with five of her fellow-students – the now legendary ‘Antwerp Six’ – and presented her first collection at London Fashion week in 1987.
Between 1987 and 1988 she created her first Autumn [...]