Overview
- The exhibition, which opens Saturday, runs at Antwerp’s MoMu through January 17, 2027.
- Curated by Geert Bruloot with Kaat Debo and Romy Cockx, the show was built with the designers’ input, and Marina Yee contributed before her death in November 2025.
- Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene, and Marina Yee each receive a dedicated gallery, with timelines that set their work in social and fashion context.
- The display brings together roughly 100 looks and rare ephemera such as drawings, invitations, photographs, and personal papers to show how ideas evolved.
- The show challenges the ‘group’ myth by presenting six independent practices and revisits their improvised 1986 London showcase that drew buyers like Barneys and helped put Antwerp’s fashion school on the global map.