COLORE TA JOURNÉE
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“COLORE TA JOURNÉE” IS A BELGIAN BRAND CREATED BY MELISSA BOUKHELF
This is a range of colorful and handcrafted polymer clay earrings.
The COLORE buckles are unique and original, and their mission is to embellish our outfits. Each collection features seven designs, to color every day of the week.
In the “FABULOUS” collection, our earrings bear the names of inspiring women: VIRGINIA Woolf, MONA Chollet, NIKI de Saint Phalle, LOUISE Popelin, ROSA Parks, SIMONE Veil and FRIDA Khalo.
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caroline biss offers the modern, self-confident woman elegant and classy women’s fashions with glamorous style.
perfectly fitting ready-to-wear collections that combine stylish simplicity, subtle colours and new materials – resulting in a contemporary yet timeless collection.
comfortable designs for every day of the week, weekend sporting outfits with just that little bit more, fashion dresses for a night out and sparkling party wear.
Kouterbaan 44 Lebbeke 9280 Belgium
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The use of new materials and techniques creates added values and aesthetics in eyewear design. This is basically the idea and motivation of the Cabrio collection.
Driven by curiosity, Bieke Hoet continuously explores new materials, techniques and manufacturers. A virtual library has grown during the years.
Through trial and error, by pushing a material to its edge of performance, by applying techniques unknown in the eyewear business, new concepts with new added values are created.
klaverstraat 71 Bruges 8000 Belgium
Christoph Broich
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ZEEFDRUK EN BEDRUKKING
Zeefdruk is de meest gebruikte methode om afdrukken op textiel aan te brengen. De stoffen kunnen met 1 tot 8 kleuren en in full colour bedrukt worden. Voor het maken van een zeefdruk moet u rekening houden met vaste kosten (raam en film) per kleur en per bedrukkingsformaat.
TRANSFER- EN FLEXDRUK
Bij deze techniek wordt een vinylsnede met verhitting op verschillende stoffen aangebracht. Dit procedé wordt zeer veel gebruikt voor kleine en middelgrote series. Uw logo’s kunnen uit één kleur bestaan of in full colour zijn. Bij dit procedé hoeft u geen rekening te houden met technische kosten voor kleine en middelgrote series. De prijs per stuk wordt daardoor zeer interessant.
BORDUURWERK
Borduurwerk geeft een mooie meerwaarde aan uw textiel. De prijs van borduurwerk verschilt naar gelang het te borduren oppervlak. Bij de eerste bestelling is digitalisering per logo vereist.
RECLAMEARTIKELEN
Een reclameartikel is een middel om uw bedrijf, diensten, vereniging, club of afdeling tegen lage kosten per stuk te promoten. Bij ons hebt u keuze uit een groot aantal verschillende producten. Leg uw ideeën gerust aan ons voor.
Vuurstraat 55 Brussel 1190
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WE DELIVER EVERYTHING BUT THE BABY
The Childhome story started in 1985. Stefan Aerts drove around from shop to shop with a van full of baby gear. His case quickly met with success, it didn’t take long for the business to start growing, so his wife Nathalie joined him. With a son and twin daughters, Stefan and Nathalie knew like no other what young parents really need. Ideas came to life and they designed their first collection: Childhome was born!
WORLDWIDE SUCCESS
In the years that followed, more and more young parents discovered the products of Childhome and the range has also expanded considerably. From cots, high chairs, play mats, nursery bags, changing tables to bouncers: Childhome has it all and much more.
Stefan and Nathalie still run their growing business with the same passion every day. Meanwhile, Childhome’s baby and toddler items are available in more than 60 countries worldwide.
FOUR CORE VALUES
With the best interest of your child in mind, Childhome ensures that their products comply with the strictest European safety standards. Quality and safety are of the highest priority. The in-house design, sales, marketing and logistics team also provide a great service every day.
However, the success isn’t only achieved by innovative, comfortable and safe products. It is passion that is the driving force behind Childhome. Together with their great team, Stefan and Nathalie believe that “your nursery should tell the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love.”
DURABLE, TIMELESS AND BEAUTIFUL
The main goal of Childhome is to create comfortable products that make your little one’s life as pleasant as possible. In addition, Childhome also wants to make all parents happy with quality articles. That is why they only use the best materials and safety is of the utmost importance. This way, as a parent, you are always assured to get quality products. A nice extra is that all products look beautiful in your interior due to the sleek and timeless designs. After all, appearance does matter!
REWARDED WITH AWARDS
Childhome’s success has been confirmed with prestigious, international awards for their products such as the Sixseater, Evolu 2, Evolu ONE.80° and the Mommy Bag Collection. Childhome is therefore very proud that this was achieved with Original Belgian Designs! Childhome does not yet know what the future will bring. But one thing is certain: the best is yet to come!
WE ARE READY TO GIVE ADVICE
And do you have a question about one of our articles? After all, in the wide range it can sometimes be difficult to choose. Do not hesitate to contact us. We help you with a smile and provide you with the best advice. Team Childhome is always there for you!
Yours in baby business,
Stefan & Nathalie Aerts
& the whole Childhome team
Childhome NV Neerveld 13b Kontich 2550 Belgium
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There once was …
More than 60 years ago, the couple Roger and Simone Decremer-Persoons started the production of luxury slippers in Tildonk. In the 1970s they changed direction: they started a wholesale shoe business and opened a first modest shoe shop under the church tower – the stepping stone to what would later become Carmi. Today the company is led by their eldest son Michel Decremer and his wife Marie-Claire Martens, who have developed Carmi into a beautiful total store for shoes and clothing for the whole family.
Start of a thriving business
The whole story started in 1954, when Roger Decremer and his wife Simone Persoons decided to start their own business. Through a cousin, they came into contact with a supplier that produced rubber soles, and so the idea of making slippers was born. As an engineer, Roger was involved in the design of machines and patterns, Simone chose the materials and drew the designs. The Perro brand – the first letters of Persoons and Roger – was born. Some of the slippers were genuine luxury slippers made from haute couture fabrics, which they were allowed to supply years later to Bally, a well-known Swiss chain of shoe stores. During that period they worked with about sixty people. The entire production took place in Tildonk, in a new building next to the parental home. Today this is still the headquarters of the company, where an enthusiastic team takes care of the accounting, personnel administration, purchasing, marketing, web sales and the warehouse.
From Perro to Shoe Center
Due to the sky-high wage costs, the production of slippers was stopped in 1979. The Perro company, meanwhile a wholesaler in shoes, became an agent for other shoe brands, including Primigi, Bellamy, Gallus, Arima and Arriva. Twice a year the people from the neighborhood could go to the old stitching shop above the head office to buy the remaining slippers and the wholesale stock. An embryonic form of the current Carmi branches, so to speak. Not much later, Roger and Simone opened their first shoe store, the Shoe Center. In addition to Perro’s own slippers, customers found various men’s, women’s and children’s shoe collections there.
Carmi sees the light of day
Under the impulse of their eldest son Michel, the Decremer family again went in search of renewal and expansion. In 1985 they were able to acquire a spacious and well-located building in Zemst. Just outside the center, the former Carpetland building became vacant, with a spacious parking lot. There the first building blocks would be laid for what Carmi is today: the shopping address in the region with more than 300 top brands in shoes, handbags, clothing and accessories under one roof. The opening was an overwhelming success. Michel: “In a press campaign we announced that the first five hundred visitors would receive a barbecue as a gift. There has been a long queue from early in the morning. It was a bull’s eye.”
The offer is expanding
About five years later, Werner also joined the business, after which the two brothers continued to build on the success of Zemst. In 1988 the store in Tildonk was closed and moved to Korbeek-Lo: the second Carmi was a fact. And in 2002 a third branch was opened in Aubel in Wallonia. Initially, Carmi only sold children’s, women’s and men’s shoes, but afterwards also a limited range of casual wear. About fifteen years after the start of Carmi, the range was expanded to a full-fledged clothing collection.
Family business pur sang
In the 1990s, the Decremer family opened four Mephisto stores in Brussels, Antwerp, Hasselt and Knokke. And there is also the Kid children’s shoe store in Leuven, and the Gabor shops in Ghent and Knokke. The Carmi’s in Zemst and Korbeek-Lo have since been repeatedly renovated and enlarged to accommodate the increasingly extensive range.
At the end of 2016, Werner and his wife Kathy, who had been in charge of the marketing department for a dozen years, decided to take their careers in a new direction. In the meantime, Elke and Jan, the children of Michel and Marie-Claire, have also started in the business.
Everything starts with the customer
A great deal of attention is paid to service and customer-friendliness in the training of sales personnel. “Whatever you buy, at Carmi you can count on personal service. Our experienced employees are always ready to give the appropriate advice. And we notice that the customer is asking that more and more. Our saleswomen and salespeople regularly attend refresher courses at the various brands. In this way they can guide the customer even better with his purchase”, says Michel. “The role of the Carmi team is very important. We try to surround ourselves with the best people, in the stores and also at our administrative services and in the warehouse in Tildonk. Our after-sales service is also supported by two experienced master shoemakers, which is an enormous added value for the customer.”
Finger on the pulse
Marie-Claire, Michel, Elke and Jan are also in the shops as much as possible, in order to keep in touch with the customer. “We only exist thanks to the customers and you have to earn them every day,” Michel says. “Hence the wide range of more than 300 top brands for women, men and children at Carmi and the largest possible range within each brand. The customer really has to find everything in the store. Only then is a visit to a Carmi store worth the trip. The webshop also sells the entire range of shoes, slippers, handbags and accessories. We keep our finger on the pulse when it comes to fashion. Brands come and go, and we have to be very vigilant that we have the right offer at the right time. Because our customers come to us for their favorite brand. It is our job to ensure that we have it in-house.”
Social engagement
Right from the start, Carmi has consistently drawn the card of social engagement. With the Senden Home shelter in the Philippines, there has been sponsorship for many years amounting to 2% of the turnover of the children’s shoes. In 1997, a permanent partnership was started with Natuurpunt Oost-Brabant. Since 2012, Carmi has also provided support to the Kenyan Ilkujuka in Loïta Hills. An initiative that was followed in the sector and we applaud that at Carmi: the more of these types of initiatives, the better.
Carmi through the years
Today Carmi has been around for 32 years. We take you on a journey through time!
1954 Start production luxury slippers
1972 Establishment of wholesaler
1976 Opening of Shoe Center Tildonk schoenen shoe store
1979 Stopping slipper production
1985 Opening Carmi Zemst
1988 Opening Carmi Korbeek-Lo, closing Shoe Center Tildonk
1995 Opening of the first Mephisto Shop in Brussels
1997 Opening Mephisto Shop Antwerp
1999 Opening Mephisto Shop Hasselt
2001 Opening Mephisto Shop Knokke
2002 Opening Carmi Aubel
2011 Launch of the Carmi webshop
2015 Opening Gabor Shop Ghent and Knokke
Brusselsesteenweg 129 Zemst 1980 Belgium
Tiensesteenweg 8 Bierbeek 3360 Belgium
Claire Lavendhomme
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Claire Lavendhomme
Born in 1959
Lives and works in Brussel (Belgium)
(…)”If we may be so bold: the sharp edge of sensitivity on the one hand, the very subtle construction on the other. All of it in a sort of perpetually threatened emotion”.
(… )”Si l’on peut aller jusque là, le tranchant de la sensibilité d’une part, la très subtile construction d’autre part, tout cela dans une sorte d’émotion perpétuellement menacée”.
J-M H 1995
“Claire Lavendhomme plays with the” philosophical “notions of life using the form in an almost bi-dimensional way. Her work reveals something subtle, vibrant, poetic, mysterious …”
FS, 2012
Artist creator
• Contemporary jewellery, objets, drawings, multidisciplinary.
• Since 1997 Organisation of artistic meetings (plastic arts, cinema, conferences, lectures music, …)
Link: http://artrencontre.blogspot.com
Teacher experience
Since
• 2003 •Contemporary jewellery teacher at Academy of fine Arts.
Link: http://atelierarlon.blogspot.com
•Teacher of many workshops (jewelery, resin,artistic research).
Link: http://workshoplavendhommeclaire.blogspot.com
• 2016 •Teacher at « institut Jeanne Toussaint » (Arts et Métiers), Bruxelles
• Before 2003 •Teacher in the broader context of fine arts.
Some recent exhibitions (in jewellery)
Expose since 1992
• 2018 Elle-luit/jewellery and light. Wcc-bf (B)
Kleine Kabinet , Tokyo . (J)
Le génie des images, La joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris. (F)
• 2017 Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)
Kleine Kabinet , Tokyo . (J)
Bijoux d’artistes et de créateurs. Piasa. Auction during “parcours bijoux”, Paris. (F)
• 2016 Schmuck 2016. Handwerkmessen. Curator Peter Skubic. Munchen. (D)
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)
Bonds, METALLOphone, International Biennial of Contemporary Meta art. (AV17)Gallery, Vilnius.
• 2015 Silence please! Noel Guyomarc’h gallery. Curator Ramon Puig Cuyas. Montréal. (C)
Beijing International Contemporary Metal and jewellery Art Exhibition. China World Art Museum. (China)
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)
• 2014 Multiple Exposures : Jewelry and Photography Loan(s). Museum of Arts Design New York . (USA)
European Triennal of contemporary Jewelry (2011, 2008, 2005) Etable des Anciens abattoirs de Mons. (B)
Le bijou mis à prix, Drouot, Paris. (F)
Transformation 8, Light Yawkey Art Museum, Wassau. (USA)
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London. (UK)
• 2013 Passage, Sabine Herman Gallery, Bruxelles. (B)
La frontera, Velvet Da Vinci, San Fransisco & Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico
Tweex 2. Vander A Gallery. Bruxelles.(B) Bijou d’auteur.
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles de Paris. (F)
Schmuck Show, during the Schmuck, Munchen. (D)
• 2012 European Prize for Applied Arts ( 2010). Anciens abattoirs de Mons. (B)
Accès direct12, Château de Seneffe, Musée de l’orfèvrerie, Seneffe. 5b°
Some recent exhibitions (drawing, multidisciplinary)
• 2017 Sithonia, Flux Gallery, Liège. (B)
• 2016 Centre culturel de Marchin. (B)
• 2015 Sur du rien, Le Clignoteur Gallery, Bruxelles. (B)
• 2014 Autour du mot, Centre Culturel de Marchin. (B)
• 2012 Participation at « Frecher », Loods 12. Wetteren. (B)
• 2017 Participation at « Hommage à Bernd Lohaus », M HKA, Gand. (B)
• and since 1997 the « rencontres artistiques ». Belgium
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COSTUMIER À BRUXELLES
La Maison Costhea est une Maison de location et de confection de costumes, principalement d’époque.
Désireuse de faire profiter à tout un chacun, nos richesses et notre savoir-faire accumulés au fil des années.
Nous travaillons avec les Théâtres, le cinéma, l’évènementiel, pour des cortèges et les festivités du carnaval ainsi que tous autres métiers impliquant de revêtir un costume.
Nous nous faisons une joie de partager cette accumulation d’histoire, d’expériences du spectacle en Belgique et autres fabuleuses réalisations qui sont nées chez nous.
Toutes personnes désireuses de resplendir à une fête est également la bienvenue dans notre caverne aux mille merveilles.
Dans notre stock, nous avons un vaste éventail de costumes qui recouvrent toutes les périodes qui ont façonnées notre histoire; de l’Antiquité Gréco-Romaine aux années 1950 en passant par le Moyen Age, la Renaissance, le Baroque et Rococo ou encore le siècle des Lumières.
Venez nous découvrir et vous évadez.
Quai aux Briques 22 Bruxelles 1000 Belgium
Centexbel
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Strategy
We, at Centexbel, believe that Europe has a fascinating textile and plastic processing industry and we are proud to be part of it. Every single day we meet passionate people, we encounter great companies, we discover exciting technologies.
We care for our industry and firmly believe that by building and sharing knowledge and know-how and by engaging in close and deep collaborations we can contribute to a sustainable future for our companies.
This belief strengthens our ambition, defines our culture, shapes our organization and motivates us to do the things we do. We aim at pushing the boundaries.
Our guiding principles
We place the companies at the centre of our attention and facilitate a close connection and intense contacts with companies of the textile, plastic converting and related industries in Europe and especially in Belgium: a relationship built on trust.
Our staff members are our most precious assets. We offer them space for creativity and a maximal responsibility.
We develop industrial knowledge that really matters, in fields related to technologies, processes, products and their application fields that are of could be useful to the textile and plastic converting industry.
We transfer our knowledge to as many European companies as possible, without distinction but in total respect of confidentially.
We are making use of public funding and therefore we are complying with the expectations of and directions set out by the funding authorities.
Key activities
Research and development in fields with a high added value, and more in particular in the melt processing of polymers, in coating and surface modification, composites, recycling, smart textiles, textile applications and material characterisation. Polymers, their additives and their processing are the common theme throughout our research activities.
Product certification and finding adequate solutions in an independent manner, within the regulatory boundaries, but in full understanding of the challenges with which companies are faced.
Assisting companies in analysing, characterising and testing of products by means of the most advanced instruments and based on our excellent knowledge of products and processes.Dissemination of knowledge, in particular by allowing companies to make use of research results in their specific business context.
It is our ambition to be one of Europe’s best in the above mentioned fields. Moreover, as a technological centre, Centexbel aspires to hold a key position in the target group of the chemical intensive polymer processing industry. This target group includes the textile industry, the plastic converting industry, the coating industry, the adhesive industry and others.
Technologiepark 70 Zwijnaarde 9052 Belgium
Rue du Travail 5 Grâce-Hollogne 4460 Belgium
Etienne Sabbelaan 49 Kortrijk 8500 Belgium
Rue Montoyer 24 Brussels 1000 Belgium