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LORE VAN KEER, EST. 2010
Lore Van Keer is a Belgian jewellery label with over a decade of experience in hand-crafted creative expression. Our designs stand out through architectural flow, abstract volumes and contemporary refined luxury with a timeless twist. Pairing up contrasts while welcoming outspoken lines, Lore Van Keer manages to harness surprise within elegance, quality within experimentation. Building on the DNA of traditional jewellery, each piece is also a technically refined creation made from responsibly sourced 925 sterling silver or 18-carat gold and gemstones. A team of highly skilled goldsmiths manufactures every jewel with time-honoured techniques and clear-cut vision in our ateliers in Belgium.
THE VISION
Each Lore Van Keer design is a building block to showcase and amplify its wearer’s personality. Balancing power with fragility, timeless inspiration with contemporary lines and off-kilter twists, Lore Van Keer welcomes contrast and celebrates the abstract. A tribute to the kaleidoscope of people she dreams up her designs for. With every Lore Van Keer piece, you’re placing an intention come to life on your body. That’s how Lore Van Keer jewellery unites people from all walks of life, in every chapter of their lives.
ABOUT LORE
Belgian designer Lore Van Keer (1985) originally trained as an interior designer at LUCA School of Arts Brussels, focusing on product design. Her continued fascination for honing and making new objects grew into a fondness for jewellery, while keeping design and architecture as primary sources of inspiration. Ever since founding her namesake label in 2010, Lore Van Keer has created her own boundary-blending aesthetic of abstract and architectural pieces for confident wearers across generations.
Linda van Waesberge
Linda van WaesbergeLove Sundaily
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Comfy, soft, cozy and elegant but most of all for everyday use. Love Sundaily is our new all-velour clothing line, which we created together. The collection is dedicated to Madrid, our favourite city in the world. We named each item after one of its districts.
Love Sundaily represents that ultimate Sunday feeling. The well thought-out items are ideal for day-to-day use, but comfortable enough to make you feel like it’s Sunday.
Enjoy the Sunday feeling every day!
Are you inspired by the Sunday-feeling and want to grab a coffee?
Feel free to contact us for any questions, creative ideas, collaborations, new concepts or a cup of coffee on a Sunday morning.
BAGGENSTRAAT 34, BORGERHOUT 2140 Belgium
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CONCEPT L’HEROINE
“l’héroïne is dé exclusieve pioniershop die als eerste Belgische ontwerpers in de armen sloot, een speciale band met hen ontwikkelde en passioneel speurt naar nieuw talent”(Weekend Knack). Meer dan 25 jaar geleden bracht Martine Goethals een groot deel van de toen onbekende Antwerpse 6 naar Brugge. Het waren ontdekkingen die ondertussen van jong talent zijn uitgegroeid tot internationaal erkende topontwerpers, zoals Dries Van Noten,Ann Demeulemeester of Martin Margiela.Ondertussen vonden de volgende collecties hun stek bij “l’héroïne : AF Vandevorst, Christian Wijnants, Tim Van Steenbergen, Annemie Verbeke, Just In Case, Frankly, Mooiloop, Fine Collection, Sarti, Zengi, Wouters & Hendrix, Annelies Timmermans en Monsieur Maison. Deze tijdloze maar vernieuwende stijl is eigen aan l’héroïne. “l’héroïne” is een hedendaagse heldin: een sterke persoonlijkheid, geen fashion “victim”.
noordzandstraat 32 Brugge 8000 Belgium
La Strada Fashion & Events
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Each event requires a specific formula and a specialized approach. Its long experience perfectly allows La Strada to listen to your needs as a customer and to turn them into a unique event. Our approach is always practical, which means that we focus on a practically achievable proposal and not on a nice-sounding, unrealisable theory.
We offer our customers a full service. Besides an accurately elaborated concept, we also provide practical support to realise your particular concept. We dispose of stage material, decors, sound and light equipment, multimedia devices, etc. Our own team installs all of this with thorough precision and with a sense of style. We thus have the experience, skills and equipment to successfully support your event.
Roeselarestraat 108 Hooglede 8830 Belgium
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YOUR PERSONAL HIGH QUALITY WARDROBE
Les ReBelles d’Anvers is een fashion library die duurzame mode (highquality-lowimpact) aanbiedt, via een uniek uitleensysteem. De focus ligt hierbij op designerkleding (onafhankelijke ontwerpers) en het (duurzaam) middensegment. Van fast fashion blijven we weg.
WITH A SMALLER IMPACT
Omdat het hoge tempo van de mode-industrie een serieuze impact kent, bieden we graag stuks aan die er naar streven hun impact op andere vlakken laag te houden (propere productie, bewuste grondstoffen, lange levensduur). In dezelfde lijn werken we los van seizoenen. Iets dat goed gemaakt is verdient het om langer in de rekken te liggen dan enkele weken!
FOR TINY BUDGETS
Iets dat met oog voor kwaliteit en duurzaamheid gemaakt wordt, komt vaak met een prijskaartje. Net dáár zit het innovatieve aan Les ReBelles d’Anvers; naast kopen kan je immers ook huren; wat het mogelijk maakt om een degelijk stuk te dragen en uit te testen, zonder dat het een rib uit je lijf kost.
Begijnenstraat 66 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
Lano
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Historiek
De huidige structuur van Lano dateert uit 1970 toen drie belgische ondernemingen met meer dan 100 jaar textielactiviteit met elkaar fusioneerden.
Lano produceert zowel kamerbreed tapijt, karpetten, als synthetisch gras. Productietechnisch omvat het gamma naast geweven Wilton en Axminster tapijt ook getuft tapijt voor zowel de residentiële als de hospitality markt. Het imago van een kwaliteitsproducent gekoppeld aan top design is het resultaat van een geïntegreerd productieproces dat nauwkeurige kwaliteitsbewaking toelaat in alle stadia van zowel de productie als de levering. Vandaar dat Lano een ISO 9001 gecertificeerde onderneming is.
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HARELBEKE
Dit is de grootste site van Lano, met een oppervlakte van 200.000 m², waar zowel kamerbreed getuft als Axminster tapijt en synthetisch gras worden geproduceerd. Op deze site bevinden zich ook de moderne productielijnen voor continu verven en bedrukken, het latexeren en een magazijn voor stockage van 20.000 rollen getuft tapijt.
FORCEVILLE
Forceville bij Amiens in Frankrijk is de vestiging van de ultramoderne spinnerij van Lano.
Milieu
LANO houdt rekening met het milieu in alle stadia van het bedrijfsproces (aankoop, productie en levering). De expliciete doelstelling van LANO is om de negatieve impact van alle bedrijfsactiviteiten op onze planeet te beperken, rechtstreeks of onrechtstreeks.
Iedere afdeling van LANO heeft de verantwoordelijkheid om dit proces te beheren en te analyseren, in samenwerking met leveranciers en klanten. Zij moet ook de nodige systemen uitwerken voor milieuprestatiemetingen die worden gerapporteerd aan de Directie.
LANO HOUDT IN ALLE BEDRIJFSPROCESSEN
REKENING MET VOLGENDE PRINCIPES:
- Verbruik van grondstoffen moet in de lijn liggen van het duurzaamheidprincipe
- Vermindering van emissies gedurende het productieproces
- Streven naar continue verbetering van de milieuprestaties
- Realiseren van efficiënt energieverbruik
- Recycleren van afval
- Verbeteren en verlengen van de productlevenscyclus door betere kwaliteit
- Initiëren van de best mogelijke milieuvriendelijke processen in de productieketting
MET VOLGENDE ATTITUDE:
- Ontwikkelen van transparante en constructieve relaties met de overheden
- Het leveren van een positieve bijdrage aan alle activiteiten die het verantwoordelijkheidsbesef tegenover het milieu kunnen promoten binnen de lokale samenleving
MET VOLGENDE AMBITIES:
- Evolueren naar de ISO 14001 standaard
- Minimaliseren van het verbruik van niet gerecycleerde materialen; maximaliseren van gerecycleerd materiaal
- Minimaliseren van de CO²-emissies, energie- en waterverbruik, afval
- Minimaliseren van de afval van producten na hun levensduur door hergebruik in het industriële process
Venetiëlaan 33 Harelbeke 8530 Bzlgium
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ABOUT ME
Being a stylist for over two decades, I try to reinvent myself every day, perfecting my skills as well as my client list. Today, I am working as a freelance stylist, creative consultant, casting director and choreographer for a variety of international fashion brands. Although I’m currently based in Belgium, I work globally – from Milan over Paris to Shenzhen and NYC.
Coming up with new angles and refreshing ideas is surely one of the things I like most in what I do. I consider myself creative and versatile, I take the lead and always keep a clear commercial focus. I can rely on an extensive network of international contacts in fashion – creatives as well as business contacts.
La Cambre
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La Cambre is one of Belgium’s leading schools of art and design.
Founded in 1927 by the architect and designer Henry van de Velde, the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels of La Cambre (ENSAV) has some 700 students spread across 17 departments: ceramics, animation, drawing, urban design, engraving and the printed image, painting, photography, sculpture, and an art restoration department. Its design departments include industrial and textile design, book and paper design (bookbinding), interior design, set design, fashion design, as well as two graphic sections – graphic and visual communication and typography. A new Master’s degree in accessories design completes the curriculum.
Students attend several cross-disciplinary courses, either optional or compulsory, including digital art, live model, colour, video, body arts and performance, book art and illustration. As well as art training, they are taught theory and technical skills, both general and specialised, and are encouraged to go on work experience by taking part in the Erasmus student exchange programme, as artists’ assistants, and at arts centres, creative studios or with companies.
TEXTILE DESIGN
Through its history and its ubiquitous presence in everyday life, textiles embrace symbolic and functional, cultural and decorative dimensions in uses which are both personal and collective. A flexible material, textiles are moveable, made of fibres and threads, wefts and stitching; they nurture complicity with the line, the text and digital processes. They are the bearers of countless expressions of ancestral know-how and a prospective terrain for research, the catalyst for a vast industrial sector. The search for textures and structures, rhythms, drawings and colourations is the very subject of the work of the textile designer, which they implement as a means of autonomous expression or towards established applications.
The studio’s programme enables students to understand the issues of textiles within a wide vista and through them to make coherent choices in accordance with their aspirations. The transversal nature of textiles leads students to imagine it deployed across art, fashion and design and invited into hitherto unseen terrains. The demanding character of interactivity with different fields of application takes the form of individual or collective working partnerships.
The students develop a personal language by fundamentally questioning the medium, as much in terms of its sensory, functional and cultural resonances as through its technical processes. This implies the acquisition of tools of analysis, creation and production through the varied professional backgrounds of the studio’s teachers, and thanks to the assistants who bring to creation the general courses and optional arts-course tutorials. The experimental processes develop through learning the techniques of weaving, stitching and printing. Successive interpretations of the work enable its multiple issues to become more apparent, its special features to be honed, and its status to be formulated. Working partnerships with external bodies or other studios within the school, training courses and enrolling the studio in international networks aim to stimulate the creative processes, to kindle exchanges and encounters, to refine the developments of the project. In addition to the general compulsory training course available to the different studios organized at La Cambre, the bachelor’s aims to provide the student with an understanding of the whole of the textile industry, of its multiple sources and issues. Over the course of the three years, the students develop experimental protocols and respond to given topics by questioning the different levels, statuses and applications of textiles. The demanding nature of a technical polyvalence permits an opening to various specializations.
The master’s entails an engagement on the part of the student in a domain of creation, based on an awareness of what they are undertaking and accomplishing in the professional, artistic and social world. The programme helps the student to choose a personal project, developed over two years and whose implementation transcends the scope of the school. The students have access, in optional form, to different courses and multidisciplinary studios at La Cambre or in other establishments, in such a way to adapt the programme to the demands of the subject chosen. Internships and residences in various contexts at an international level are encouraged during the master’s.
Pedagogical coordination:
Linda Topic, textile designer Anne Masson, textile designer
FASHION DESIGN
The Stylisme and Fashion Design studio offers training which hinges on the two primary axes of its title. Stylisme meets a precise demand in a given context. It immerses itself in brand strategy development from every angle: product, communication, distribution, extensive research. Cultural, social, aesthetic and technical skills combined with analysis abilities, the accuracy of perception and of communication are the assets of a fashion designer positioned at the centre of the company. The design of fashion(s), less influenced by economic logic, develops a more personal and innovative writing. The two disciplines, stylisme and fashion design, have in common the highlighting of the body through the use of volume, images, colours and materials: they study every facet of fashion as a contemporary form of expression.
Through exercises and specific projects, the student is led to work on concrete statements and to develop, collection by collection, an ever-more personal style. Through their investigations they are ineluctably brought face to face with a language rich in signs, which they have to learn how to decrypt in the light of its sociocultural context. It is from this approach that they draw the elements which will permit them to develop a personal and innovative style. Apart from a sound knowledge of what is going on in the world of fashion, a good general grounding in terms of art, history, literature and cinema as well as a large openness of mind and a boundless curiosity will be indispensable for them. The studio’s curriculum highlights a number of fundamentals:
observation of the body and construction of volume ;
creative approach: personal research through the analysis of texts and images, and subsequently the development of themes, collection concepts, the composition of a range of colours and producing a personal dossier;
development of volume through the techniques of moulding, sewing and mesh work, as well as working on materials through various techniques, including screen printing;
construction of a coherent collection through the drawing of silhouette outlines, developing canvas, the choice of materials, producing prototypes in definitive form;
finishing the collection through accessorizing, fashion photography, casting and choosing the staging for the various modes of presentation (installation, catwalk parade, performances, video editing, etc.)
In the bachelor’s, alongside the core curriculum, the student is led to work on concrete statements, to build for themselves a technical vocabulary in terms of cut, couture, the handling and the finishing of textiles, drawing silhouette outlines, graphic design, etc. and to develop over successive projects an ever-more personal style. It is also during the bachelor’s that they acquire the concept of collection and that they complete two external internships in a fashion house or with a designer.
The master’s is the setting for the culmination of a long process of maturation and osmosis between creativity and acquired technical skills. The student must be able to assume full responsibility for their creative choices. They must also be capable of defending them through a coherent sales pitch and an end product which is perfectly in line with them. They complete two long-term internships in a renowned fashion house or with a designer abroad. Their final-year thesis concludes an educational curriculum of at least five years spent within the studio and constitutes a genuine business card to gain entry into the profession.
Pedagogical coordination :
Tony Delcampe, fashion designer
21 Abbaye de La Cambre Brussels 1000 Belgium
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Le Sanglier
Le Sanglier is a workshop devoted to the creation of leather products that are completely handcrafted and unique. These creations are mainly dedicated to vegetable tanned leather. This type of tanning gives some of the most robust leathers and the most conducive to patina by their simple use. Perfect combination between the durability of a product and its unique and lively side.
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By purchasing a Le Sanglier product, you are offering yourself a durable and personal object made in a unique way. Then you will be alone in control.
Le Sanglier products are generally guaranteed for life for normal use. Scratches, scrapes and general patina are not covered by this warranty.
Ordering your products
The aim of this workshop is to devote itself as much as possible to personalized creations. This is why, sometimes, I ask you to participate a little more than on other e-shops where all the products are directly sold as is. It is often possible via the choices offered to personalize your future goods (color, sizes, types of buckles, etc., type of leather, etc.) or even to contact me in order to offer things that are not on this site. That’s what’s exciting.
It is your idea that feeds my new creations. You can also participate in what you buy.