On Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 the students of the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp presented their designs at the Waagnatie event centre in Antwerp. The show was split up into three parts. During the first part of the show, the first-year and second-year bachelor students presented their projects. The...
7 Jun 2024
In the hallowed halls of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the name Dries Van Noten resonates with a special kind of reverence. Van Noten announced his departure from his eponymous fashion house earlier today. However, the fashion world can be sure his legacy as one of the academy’s most illustrious alumni will live on. Van Noten's...
19 Mar 2024
On Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10, the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp presented its end-of-the-year student fashion show entitled ‘Show 23’, directed by former student and the department's new creative director Brandon Wen. The show took place in Antwerp, where 5,000 fashion enthusiasts from the Belgian city...
16 Jun 2023
The fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Belgian eyewear brand Komono are celebrating five years of collaborating with the launch of the special 'retrospective collection' as per a press release. For this special collection, three Master students from the academy have teamed up with Komono to create an innovative...
12 May 2023
On the last day of Paris Haute Couture Week, on January 26, a group of six Antwerp-based fashion designers who all graduated from the city’s Royal Academy of Arts, will present a ‘digital couture collection’ in collaboration with digital fashion network Mutani, as per the Mutani newsletter. The collective collection has been named ‘The Antwerp...
18 Jan 2023
All colleges and art academies in the Netherlands and Belgium are necessarily closed due to the corora virus. Fashion students receive only digital education. But how exactly does this work in this field, where everything revolves around the tactile experience and communication through materials? Students and teachers face major challenges,...
20 Apr 2020