Walter Van Beirendonck is a Belgian fashion designer. He graduated in 1980 from the Royal Arts Academy in Antwerp. Together with Dirk Van Saene, Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee and Dirk Bikkembergs they became known as the Antwerp Six.
OAMC’s fall offering was a rare combination of street cred and sophistication. With military as a theme, Luke Meier upped the ante on suit options via clever layering and noble fabric mixes.
“It’s really about looking for something masculine, steady, solid, and sometimes a bit sensual.” Christophe Lemaire’s précis of this collection could apply to the entire Lemaire project.
If Stefano Pilati’s Ermenegildo Zegna Couture collection wholeheartedly embraced that suffix, with all its implied unattainable preciousness, brother line Z Zegna was focused on the urban and the accessible for Fall.
Fashion shouldn’t be about setting, nor set dressing. Nevertheless, Trussardi’s adoptive home of the Palazzo Brera—a storied Milanese mansion designed by Giuseppe Piermarini—is pretty impressive.
A haunting and cinematic editorial by Christian Oita, The Exiled Prince follows Moroccan model and LGBTQ advocate Ossam Arad through a fictional yet deeply personal journey of exile, identity, and defiance in the Arab world.