BANANA WINK BOOM a/w 2024/25 Walter Van Beirendonck SHOWROOM Perfect music choice for the look, a bachelorette more than flesh of humanity, a perfect blend of otherworldly life with earthly soil. Models donned their own music boxes, and spoke their truth, moving from room to room, then outside to the streets of Paris for rainy […]
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The Belgian designer explored the specter of generative AI through wonky clothes. If you tasked generative AI with approximating Walter Van Beirendonck spring 2024 men’s collection, among this human’s suggested list of prompts: cricket padding, blimps, cycling jerseys, frothy wedding garments, hazmat suits, bumblebees and “Where’s Waldo.” In his show notes, the Belgian fashion maverick […]
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Exoskeletons were the designer’s starting point for this season’s collection. Walter Van Beirendonck’s fall collection came as a response to today’s complex world. The designer took his main inspiration from an exoskeleton, or the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal’s body. “It’s to protect yourself from the world, that was the starting point,” […]
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We came to Paris to watch the new Walter Van Beirendonck Men’s Spring 2023 Collection. The venue was at the Théâtre de la Madeleine “WIRWAR Show” Walter Van Beirendonck is without a doubt one of the most influential people in the fashion industry. He is a member of the very influential group Antwerp Six +1 […]
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Walter Van Beirendonck the designer’s strong collection featured new volumes for the house for Fall/Winter 2022 in Paris. Walter Van Beirendonck’s strong fall collection featured new volumes, especially well-articulated, rounded shoulders, and a different color play. “It’s a shoulder that you can easily take away — there is a zip inside the coats, and you […]
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See the lookbook of Walter Van Beirendonck Menswear Spring/Summer 2021 Paris Walter Van Beirendonck worked with his former student, Tokyo-based Eli Effenberger to make this excellent collection presentation video and portfolio. Pre-Zooming, he said: “I was inspired by what the couturiers did after the war, the “Théâtre de la Mode.”… So we made the collection […]
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This season, the designer’s silhouettes ranged from spiky to puffy. Walter Van Beirendonck Menswear Fall/Winter 2020 Paris. For fall, Walter Van Beirendonck offered a wide range of silhouettes, from spiky (think thick spikes jutting from traditional suiting and bomber jacket shoulders) to puffy (like stuffed animal appendages extruding from oversize sweatshirts). But it was the […]
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Walter Van Beirendonck Spring/Summer 2020 Paris artwork by Jonty Mellmann. Plastic materials intervened in geometric figures and a garish explosion of color can be seen in Walter van Beirendonck’s summer collection, in which the symmetrical prints, the optimistic drawings and the exaggeration of the forms make this a very lively proposal. “When working out new […]
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The Belgian designer titled the lineup Wow, “The Meltdown Collection,” channeling today’s ethos. Walter Van Beirendonck’s lineup for fall was titled “Wow,” with a subhead reading “The Meltdown Collection.” Like always, his fashion channeled the ethos of our times, but this round came with a vivid Technicolor punch. From the clothes to Moon Boots and […]
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Exoskeleton jackets for Walter Van Beirendonck’s “Wild is the Wind.” And all you can see was insanity and craziness in the Walter Van Beirendoncks Spring/Summer 2019 Paris. And then you can turn it around and see this zig-zag catwalk, and you can see this green ducks pattern on every trouser, shirt, jackets and not only […]
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