Cedric Charlier
Cedric Charlier
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Belgium born and trade at the famous Ecole Nationale Supérierure des Arts Visuels of La Cambre, Cédric Charlier was soon pushed to Paris by winning the Moët Hennessy Fashion award, starting point of a flourishing career.
From his belgian roots he carries an heritage of great fashion designers, with all a demanding approach of aesthetic. Working with the talented Michael Kors and Alber Elbaz at Céline and Lanvin, he was then hired as art director of Cacharel. His strong aesthetic and sense of luxury elevated the brand at the level of the big names.
He launched his own house in 2012 in a continue effort to propose and edgy, very right , carefully cut and new vestaire. From masculine-feminine, to cool urban to refined and chic, his woman has a high quality vestiaire for every mood.
Jan-Jan van Essche
Jan-Jan van EsscheInfo
AS FOR MANY OTHERS, THE HUMAN COLLECTIVE CULTURE REMAINS AN ENDLESS INSPIRATION FOR JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE TO CREATE NEW GARMENTS, EACH NEW DESIGN A GENUINE ATTEMPT TO OPEN UP NEW PERSPECTIVES AND TO PUSH CONFLICTING DIALOGUES FORWARD.
WITH EVERY SERIES OF GARMENTS, TRADITIONAL PATTERNS FROM DIFFERENT ETHNO-CULTURAL ORIGINS ARE CAUTIOUSLY STUDIED AND SUBSEQUENTLY INTERPRETED IN THE DESIGNER’S INDIVIDUAL PATTERN LANGUAGE; ONE SPEAKING THE POETRY OF SIMPLICITY.
JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE MOSTLY OPTS TO REMOVE ALL POSSIBLE SEAMS AND MINIMALIZING DETAILS AND CULTURAL CONNOTATION, WHILE MAXIMIZING COMFORT FOR THE WEARER AND THEREFORE PROPOSING AN EXPERIENCE THAT WORKS FROM THE WITHIN.
UNLIKE CLASSIC WESTERN APPROACH TO CONFINE AND SHAPE THE BODY, JAN-JAN PROVIDES THE BODY THE LUXURY AND FREEDOM TO SHAPE THE GARMENT.
HIS SINCERE AND DISCRETE DESIGNS ARE EXECUTED IN CAREFULLY SOURCED, REFINED QUALITY FABRICS OF NATURAL FIBERS, ALL CONTRIBUTING ELEMENTS INDUCING ONES AWARENESS AND STATE OF MIND.
CONTRIBUTING TO THIS STORY OF MINIMIZING ANECDOTIC CONNOTATIONS SOME FABRICS REMAIN UN-DYED OR EVEN LOOM STATE, THE COLOURS ARE RATHER TO THE MUTED PALETTE AND THE BLACK COLOUR WITH ITS ENDLESS SHADES IS ALWAYS PRESENT TO RIGOROUSLY ACCENTUATE THE SILHOUETTES.
JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE CONTINUOUSLY AIMS TO DEVELOP NEW INSIGHTS ON CONTEMPORARY YET EFFORTLESS AND GENDERLESS ELEGANCE.
HIS PIECES ARE LAYERED WITH SUBTLETY, INTEGRATED INTO MODERN-DAY CITY LIFE AND INTO PERSONAL WARDROBES, SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY PLAYING THEIR HUMBLE ROLE IN FINDING CONNECTION AND ACCEPTANCE.
THEY SEE NO BOUNDARIES, NO LIMITATIONS, NO RESTRICTIONS NO EXCLUSIONS.
THE CONVENTIONAL SILHOUETTE IS AMPLIFIED AND EACH INDIVIDUAL GARMENT LITERALLY LEAVES ROOM FOR INTERPRETATION, ENGENDERING OPENNESS.
THE WEARER OF JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE IS A GENTLE SOUL IN CONSTANT DIALOGUE WITH ONE’S PERSONAL CONTEXT AS WELL AS WITH THE WORLD AS A WHOLE.
LIKE THE GARMENTS THE WEARER IS HUMBLE AND IS UNRESTRAINED.
JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE IS BORN IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM, WHERE HE HAS HIS DESIGN STUDIO. HE’S A 2003 GRADUATE OF THE ANTWERP ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS.
IN JUNE 2010 JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE LAUNCHED HIS FIRST EPONYMOUS LABEL AS AN ANNUAL WARDROBE. COLLECTION#1 – ‘YUKKURI’, JAPANESE FOR ‘TAKE IT EASY’ OR ‘SLOWLY’.
THIS TITLE ALSO BECAME HIS INTRINSIC AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO CONTEMPORARY WARDROBES AS A DESIGNER.
- COLLECTION#2 – SATTA AMASSAGANA (JUNE 2011)
- COLLECTION#3 – IN AWE (JUNE 2012)
- COLLECTION#4 — UHURU SASA (JUNE 2013)
- COLLECTION#5 — INITE (JUNE 2014)
- COLLECTION#6 — NO MAN IS AN ISLAND (JUNE 2015)
- COLLECTION#7 — AWARE (JUNE 2016)
- COLLECTION#8 — 無 (MU) (JUNE 2017)
- COLLECTION#9 — ONE IN ALL AND ALL IN ONE (JUNE 2018)
- COLLECTION#10 — CODA (JUNE 2019)
- COLLECTION#11 — GRACE (JULY 2020)
- COLLECTION#12 — CYCLE (JUNE 2021)
THE ANNUAL WARDROBES RECEIVED A COUNTERPART IN 2013 WHEN, DUE TO THE WELL RECEIVED PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS, THE DESIGNER DECIDED TO ADD THE PROJECTS, AUTONOMOUS SERIES OF GARMENTS DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC CRAFTS OR INSPIRATIONS, TAKING THE NECESSARY TIME TO CULTIVATE IDEAS AND UNDERGOING THE SLOW RHYTHM AND PACE OF THE HAND.
THE CREATIVE FREEDOM IS PRESERVED AND IDEAS ARE ENABLED TO FLOURISH.
- PROJECT#1 – PROCEED (JANUARY 2013) — RESEARCH ON PATCHWORK
- PROJECT#2 — REDEEM (JANUARY 2014) &MASH; RESEARCH ON SAKIORI WEAVING
- PROJECT#3 — WADADA (JANUARY 2015) — RESEARCH ON ROPE WEAVING
- PROJECT#4 — EACH ONE TEACH ONE (JANUARY 2016) — RESEARCH ON BORO APPLICATIONS
- PROJECT#5 — ARISE (JANUARY 2017) — PATTERN RESEARCH INSPIRED BY THE KESA GARMENT
- PROJECT#6 — ONE STONE (JANUARY 2018) — PATTERN RESEARCH INSPIRED BY THE AINU KIMONO
- PROJECT#7 — SOLACE (JANUARY 2019) — EMPHASIS ON USE OF FABRICS
- PROJECT#8 — REMEMBRANCE (JANUARY 2020) — RESEARCH ON PADDED GARMENTS & SAKIORI WEAVING
- PROJECT#9 — SUNU (FEBRUARY 2021) — RESEARCH ON PADDED GARMENTS & HAND WOVEN GARMENTS
WADADA BVBA NACHTEGAALSTRAAT 27 ANTWERPEN 2060 BELGIUM
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1957
Het verhaal achter Mayerline
Op 12 mei 1957 zetten Jozef Meyer en Jeanne Vrydags hun eerste stappen in de mode met een beperkte collectie handgemaakte mantels voor de lokale markt. Toen de notaris de handelsnaam “Meyerline” per ongeluk als “Mayerline” noteerde, zag het modekoppel wel wat in de vrouwelijkere toon van deze spellingsfout. Het merk Mayerline was geboren.
1970
Voet aan wal in de modestad
Het aantal enthousiaste reacties op de eerste handgemaakte mantels was zo overweldigend dat het modekoppel besliste mantelpakjes aan de collectie toe te voegen. De steeds ruimer wordende collectie was al gauw niet meer enkel op de markt te koop maar dook op in kwalitatieve multimerkenboetieks, zoals de toen befaamde Alpina-winkels in Antwerpen. Zo kreeg Mayerline een stevige voet aan de grond in de modestad. Toen de uitbaatster van de Alpinawinkel in Antwerpen begin jaren ’70 met pensioen wou en haar zaak wilde stopzetten, zag zakenman Jozef zijn kans schoon: Mayerline veranderde in één klap van kledingmaker naar kledingmaker met eigen multmerkenwinkels.
1980
Zoals het klokje thuis tikt
In 1980 nam zoon Maurice het roer over en bouwde de export langzaam af om zich op de expansie van zijn geliefde thuismarkt te gaan concentreren. Hij breidde het bestaande assortiment uit tot een volwaardige collectie, bracht in 1986 de eerste catalogus uit en opende in 1995 de eerste Mayerline-winkel. In 1996 kreeg Mayerline bovendien een vaste stek als ‘shop-in-the-shop’ bij Galeria Inno. Mayerline werd een gevestigde waarde. Tegen 2006 telde het merk 25 eigen verkooppunten en was het aanwezig in de 15 filialen van Galeria Inno
2000
De derde generatie
Eind 2009 zette Maurice een stap opzij om plaats te maken voor de derde generatie: schoonzoon Patrik Geurts nam het roer in handen als CEO, in samenwerking met zijn vrouw Annick Meyer.
Eén jaar later trad Mayerline als één van de eerste merken in België toe tot de Fair Wear Foundation. Deze belangenorganisatie kijkt er op toe dat alle kleding waar dan ook ter wereld, wordt gemaakt onder fatsoenlijke werkomstandigheden. De Fair Wear principes worden bij Mayerline hoog in het vaandel gedragen. Alles wordt in het werk gesteld om de productieketen en de bedrijfsvoering aan te passenen en zo te streven naar betere arbeidsomstandigheden.
2013
In 2013 neemt CRG (de holding boven JBC) een meerderheidsparticipatie in Mayerline. Samen zetten we in op groei en op verruiming van het assortiment.
Met deze nieuwe Mayerline-familie opent in 2015 de eerste buitenlandse Mayerline-winkel in Luxemburg en betreden we de online marktplaats met onze webshop.
Patrik Geurts en Annick Meyer zijn een jaar later de trotse getuigen van de geboorte van het jongere Mayerline-zusje ‘Améline’ en besluiten dat het tijd is om een stap opzij te zetten en de fakkel door te geven. Mayerline is nu volledig in handen van familie Claes (CRG) die blijft investeren in het groeiverhaal en verruiming van het assortiment.
2018
Een nieuw elan
In 2018 vangt voor Mayerline een nieuw hoofdstuk aan en verhuist men naar een gloednieuw hoofdkantoor in Vilvoorde.
Er wordt ook een nieuw winkelconcept ontwikkeld met een eerste flagshipstore in Leuven.
In 2020, in volle Corona lockdown, neemt Mayerline een digitale versnelling met als Belgische primeur, een virtuele click&shop-videocatwalk om haar collecties zo inspirerend mogelijk naar de klant te brengen. Met videoshopping, een waaier aan omnichannel opties en sterk uitgebouwde persoonlijke adviesservices maakt Mayerline zich sterk voor de toekomst van de nieuwe consument.
Nu
De perfecte pasvorm
voor elk lichaam
Vandaag, in 2022, staat Mayerline al 65 jaar voor toegankelijk vakmanschap voor elke vrouw. Op maat van de unieke vrouwelijke vormen en voor ieders budget.
We blijven sleutelen aan de perfecte pasvorm met aandacht voor elk type lichaam. Steeds stijlvol en hedendaags.
Ataman
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Mustafa Ataman graduated from Francisco Ferrer School of Fashion with Honors and received the MAD Lookbook Prize 2018. Ataman started his career as a designer in Paris for Delphine Murat and then worked at Atelier David Szeto. Later on he moved to Istanbul to work alongside the stylist company Hakaan.
In 2018 Ataman went back to Belgium where he developed his own brand and collections. He participated in many fashion events such as MAD Sales, Maison des Modes in Roubaix, Balthasar in Sablon and different pop-up stores in central Brussels.
The first Ataman permanent store opened in Brussels in 2022. It is settled in in the historical neighborhood of Marolles in a small brick house, close to Place du Jeu de Balle.
Rue des Renards, 5 Brussels 1000 Belgium
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ATMOSfashion is a Belgian fashion brand offering the modern woman an elegant and sophisticated style. It is ladies prêt-a-porter that combines rich, subtle colours and new materials in a very contemparay and timeless collection. Atmos designs for this generation of woman, reinventing a style expressing feminine grace.
SENSO is our second brand. Also very feminine and for occasion but a little more sporty with more casual influence.
Both collections are bringing complete outfits for an evening out and festive clothing but also for every weekday.
Vision
For the end user we are working in the larger region or circle around Brussels and Belgium. We try to be fully aware of the typical needs and fashion habits that are living in our region. Also important is to pick up all new influences and ever changing fashion trends. Keeping in mind and respecting all of these, we are trying to extract our new collections. These collections are supported with a maximum of service and flexibility.
Business-to-business we are a flexible player very in the neighbourhood of our customers, boutiques or ladies clothing retailers. During the running season we are supporting our catalogue and collection with the possibility of repeat orders. We are also adding in the full season new items and new ‘short term delivery’ themes. These new ‘express’ collections are based on new fashion trends coming up in the season itself and are really giving a new fresh input for the retailer in the season running.
History
As Belgian ladies garment manufacturer ROVECO started some 46 years from now in a textile province town near Ghent named Ronse
Also family owned sister company ATMOSPHEREprovides the more distributing and commercial activities. Atmosphère was based for more than 35 years in the old fashion heart of Brussels called ’triangle’ but has moved since 2002 to Strombeek-Bever very near by Brussels.
Some 28 years ago we decided to start up with the brand ATMOS and to present a long term ’total look’ collection..
In 2000 SENSO became the second and more casual influenced brand.
About 55 people are working within our two companies. About 80 percent of our productions are made elsewhere. We are working with partners in Belgium, Poland, Roumenia, Italy, Tunesia and China.
Nathalie Vleeschouwer
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ABOUT US
Nathalie Vleeschouwer offers the kind of subtle elegance to women of character who want to enjoy life actively and confidently.
The Belgian designer launched her collection in 2011, but the roots of her fashion house go back as far as 1990. Inspiration is derived from all corners of the globe and distilled by Nathalie and her team at their headquarters in Antwerp. Because the soul of the collection is inextricably bound to the designer herself, it has an authentic style and is continually evolving, just like Nathalie’s creative ideas.
Experience, craftsmanship and lasting partnerships with a handful of suppliers and workshops form the basis of every garment that bears her name. Made with love, so that you can wear it again and again, and mix & match it with different items every season. Where the creativity of this collection – released once every six months – stops, yours begins.
Who is Nathalie?
Nathalie Vleeschouwer really does exist. She is not just the designer of the collection; she is also a wife, the mother of three children and two dogs, a traveller, nature lover, city-tripper, swimmer, connoisseur, and so much more.
Nathalie actively enjoys life and the clothing she wears plays an important part in this. It gives her confidence and supports her in all her activities, making it an essential part of her life.
There may be only one Nathalie Vleeschouwer, but many women can identify with her.
Why did she create the collection?
Nathalie Vleeschouwer’s interest in fashion stems from her childhood. Her father was a purchaser for a clothing chain, and as a child she loved nothing more than to accompany him to the big clothing factories. The Antwerp Academy of fashion was a logical next step in her career, but she decided – at the age of 22 – to swap the Academy with learning from practice. This resulted in the launch of Fragile, a maternity wear collection, in 1990. In those days, making fashionable maternity clothing was unheard of. That is how Nathalie became a global pioneer in the world of maternity fashion. The collection was a great success, all the way from Antwerp to Tokyo, and many brands have since followed in Fragile’s footsteps.
Having won the Womed Award in 2010 for female entrepreneurship, Nathalie felt she was ready to embark on a new venture in addition to Fragile. To underscore the authentic style of this new collection she decided to give it her own name: Nathalie Vleeschouwer.
The first collection was presented at the international trade fair in Paris in September 2010 and was available in shops in the spring of 2011.
What does the company Natale do?
Natale stands for Nathalie, and also for the Italian word for ‘birth’.
The family business comprises two collections: Fragile & Nathalie Vleeschouwer. Both are the artistic creations of designer Nathalie Vleeschouwer. The management of Natale is in the hands of Nathalie herself and her husband, Jan.
A staff of approximately 40 work hard every day, prominently or behind the scenes, in a wide range of jobs from pattern designer to sales assistant. By outsourcing as little work as possible experience is combined, ensuring a dynamic business culture.
Who makes your favourite pieces?
Nathalie Vleeschouwer is the head designer of a creative team, and collaborates with her own pattern maker. Each design is developed in detail by our team. We strive to build relationships of trust with all our suppliers and manufacturers, in which transparency and long-term cooperation are of the essence. We regularly visit our partners on site with a view to strengthening our ties and building a genuine relationship of trust and mutual respect.
Socially responsible entrepreneurship and sustainability
Respect for people, the environment and society are key values at Natale.
By opting for quality goods at fair as a starting point, we hope to contribute to enhancing the sustainability of the fashion industry. We deliberately choose to release only two collections a year and are adverse to hypes as well as overproducing. By adhering to this long-term vision we can make honest fashion that you will enjoy for many years to come and in which both the maker and the wearer take pride.
Our collections are produced without any use of child labour, in pleasant working conditions and for honest wages by audited suppliers with whom we build up partnerships with a long-term vision.
Keeping our creative, commercial and administrative departments under one and the same roof in Antwerp ensures that Natale’s environmental impact remains limited. We make every effort to minimise our ecological footprint throughout our production chain as well. This is one of the reasons why we have been sourcing more than half of what we produce from Belgian manufacturers for over 20 years. The remaining half is primarily produced in Europe.
Step by step, we aim to integrate more ecological fabrics into the collection every season – depending on the offering – while always maintaining a correct price/quality ratio.
Tulpstraat 104 , Antwerp 2060 Belgium
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is a Fashion/comfort/sport/street-wear and an Art Book & Prints retailer throughout its own E-shop.
The brand is also distributed throughout a limited amount of retailers (still open to new ones) around the globe.
Rue Beckers 66 Brussels 1040 Belgium
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els.mommaerts
// mode : collectie dames “els.mommaerts” prêt-à-porter , since 2011 // fashiondesigner “Kaat Tilley” Brussels (1993-2011) : design- assistant for women collections // opera ballet vlaanderen : kostuum supervisor Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, since 2018 // theatre, dance, opera :1997-2010 : costume designs & assistant : Opera Royal de Wallonie (Liège) : La Traviatta – Pol Pauwels : La familia, Othello – Rosas , Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Brussels): Repertoire evening , 20 years Rosas & Small Hands (out of the lie of no) & Rain &TG Stan, Rosas,Aka Moon (Brussels): In real time – Ultima Vez,Wim Vandekeybus (Brussels) : Scratching the Inner Fields & In as much as live is borrowed… & In spite of wishing and wanting – Troubleyn, Jan Fabre (Antwerp) : As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul & The fin comes a little bit earlier this siècle (but business as usual) – La cie Michèle Anne De Mey (Brussels) : La sacre en couleurs – Théatre Varia (Brussels): Nous,les héros (Philippe Sireuil) – Théatre de l’ancre (Mons) : Des couteaux dans les poules – Norrdans, Harnosand (Sweden): The space between – Alibi Collectief, Pat Van Hemelrijck (Brussels): Drie koningen in Patagonië & Los mansardinos // mother of Rosa, Jago and Omer // pers Bruzz 2013 (click) //
Koorstraat 32 rue du Choeur Molenbeek 1080 Belgium
La Rosa
La RosaInfo
Matteo La Rosa started the brand in June 2019.
In October 2020, he showed his first official collection to the public during Paris Fashion Week.
In June 2021, his second collection was shown through an online show. His first official men’s collection was shown then.
Matteo La Rosa is a Belgian/italian fashion designer and stylist from Antwerp. In 2019 he started his label MATTEO LA ROSA .
He mainly takes inspiration from the 80s. Where he is inspired by music such as new wave. The darkness and the color black he draws fully on to his collections.
Matteo designs for the powerful woman. A woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to show it. He embraces the female body in a way of pure elegance and adores how the garments fall over the body. The essence of this comes from his strong bond with his mother and grandmother. Two power women in Matteo La Rosa’s life.
Although he designs his silhouettes based on the female body, gender neutrality plays a very important role in Matteo’s designs. He actually designs for the person rather than the gender.
He usually shows his creations on models where the phenomenon of “woman” or “man” is non-existent. Only a true harmony between the garment and the body.
The sustainability aspect is very important in Matteo’s design process. Thus, everything is made in MATTEO LA ROSA’s own ateliers in Belgium.
He does not have a large stock of garments which means that no unnecessary fabrics are used and no waste is produced.
The brand MATTEO LA ROSA is built from a love for recycling old pieces and transforming them into new pret a porter pieces. As a result, each new collection will be a mix of archive pieces and newly produced pieces.
Collections include pieces for both men and women who feel good in an edgy basic silhouette of monotone colors.
Weg naar As 255 Genk 3600 Belgium
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About Comme ça
Ladies, you certainly recognize this: the magical feeling of your new dress. The ultra-soft fabric, perfect fit and radiant colours. But after a few washes, that dress often loses its shine. Not so with the comme ça collections! This colorful fashion for mothers and daughters excels in top quality and affordability and is also purely Belgian.
Stylish fashion
Comme ça designs 2 new collections for women every year. From casual tops and trousers for your leisure time to classy outfits for work, Comme ça has it all. In between, we also perfectly adapt our collections to current trends and let it surprise you by adding her own style: feminine silhouettes, stylish prints and beautiful colours.
For real women
Clothing for real women is pre-eminently the common thread through the fashion label. In our team we have ladies with different sizes and styles. Every new collection starts from there. Comme ça makes clothes from size 34 to 50 that take feminine shapes into account. Our trousers, dresses and blouses accentuate your strengths and hide the minor flaws that you see, so that a woman shines at any age. The delivery of the test collection is therefore a great and exciting moment. Our team fits and tests all new pieces to ensure fashion that fits every body.
Affordable top quality
Dress up, not down, but at a fair price. Comme ça creates affordable fashion for you. We only select strong and durable fabrics and swear by a perfect finish. Surprising look thanks to the easily combinable top and bottom pieces. We therefore offer original and striking eye-catchers that are produced in limited numbers. Enthusiasm and passion float above each piece and we are happy to pass that feeling on to you.
KASTELEINSSTRAAT 11B KRUIBEKE 9150 Belgium