Luca school of Arts
Luca school of ArtsAcademic Bachelor and Master in Visual ArtsMore Info
Do you have a fascination for textiles, a drive to create and do you want to master the visual language of textiles? Then the Textile Design specialization offers you a challenging research environment that explores the fascinating versatility of this medium. Textiles have a long history and come in many forms.
We communicate who we are in the way we dress and in the design of our living environment. Culture, time and social processes play a role in this, so that textiles function as a carrier of cultural values, ideas and meanings.
In the textile workshop you work with this fascinating versatility. New avenues and the changing role of the designer are explored, whereby the design process is not only about functionality but also about historical awareness, sustainability, emotions and topicality.
In this search for experiment, innovation and your own language, the artistic process is always central.
Alexianenplein 1 Ghent 9000 Belgium
Isabelle Leloup
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Multiculturelle, née d’une mère vietnamienne et d’un père belge, diplômée en stylisme de la Cambre (Bruxelles), Isabelle crée des collections de bijoux depuis plus de 20 ans.
Après avoir réalisé des parures pour la couture (notamment pour la maison Natan) et des bijoux fantaisie haut de gamme, Isabelle s’est aujourd’hui recentré sur l’essentiel : des matières précieuses et durables, des lignes pures inspirées de ses origines asiatiques, un style inspiré par son goût pour le chic parisien et l’intemporelle classe à l’italienne.
Les bijoux ISABELLE LELOUP sont entièrement réalisés à la main en Belgique par des artisans joailliers, et sont exclusivement en Or 18 carats recyclé et diamants de qualité supérieure (couleur : G et pureté : VS1).
Chaque pièce de bijou est unique.
Office Avenue des Constellations 18 Waterloo 1410 Belgium
Showroom Rue Lebeaustraat 31 (Sablon) Brussels 1000 Belgium
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meeting la fille d’O (daughter of ‘O) is an encounter of a different kind.
at first, it will be the striking features of the undressed avant garde. genetically blessed with an energetic overload.
(la fille d’O designs the new, the modern, the bold. sans compromise.)
then there will be the hypnotic talks, revealing the inspiration, the manifest, the love of life’s senses and what they can do to you.
(la fille d’O creates a world of aspirational energy for variations of beauty. supporting not just the self but the esteem driving you through whatever challenges you face. a feminine story of personal development whilst pleasing the ones you crave.)
whilst sharing life with her, you will find she is caring and responsible. common sense for an uncommon sensuality.
(la fille d’O designs, sources and produces an internationally appreciated product in a local environment. based in Belgium, all items are handmade by local petites mains, thus adding their personal craftmanship, allowing la fille d’O to bring you superior design and clever eco-logical making of luxury goods for your skin.)
la fille d’O. good-looking, cause it’s so hard to see.
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about the brand:
la fille d’O is a Belgian based independent lingerie brand, founded by Murielle Victorine Scherre in 2003. Dissatisfied as she was with the then current lingerie market, she decided to create her own vision on underwear. A brand freed of esthetical, technical or economical compromise. Throughout the years, la fille d’O established itself as a luxurious yet straight forward brand, marching to the beat of a whole different drum
- designing: la fille d’O mainly stands out because of the unique avant-garde way of designing. Where other brands see lingerie separate from garments, we see a much more dynamic overview: all the pieces are created inspired by the body, eager to create a flexible and merged look with your garments. As a result la fille d’O constantly delivers surprising designs, seamlessly embellishing women in a timeless way.
- positioning: More than just a lingerie and/or swimwear brand, la fille d’O effortlessly makes the transition to a fashion label. Where the lingerie sector is a rather invariable rigid branch (considering it’s high use of flexible material et al) mainly because of it’s technical demands, the fashion industry is constantly in motion, looking for progress and innovation. la fille d’O is proud to be in the vanguard of this cross-over movement and delivers pieces merging between under- and upper garments, that serve multiple purposes in your wardrobe. Solution wear is out of the picture when underwear ceases to cause problems.
- considering: Not only focussed on aesthetics, la fille d’O is ethic to the bone. From the drawing table to the manufacturing process, the production is 100% honest and 100% Belgian. From the ateliers in the far end of Belgium under the ever watchful eye of the creative director herself to the hand selected French, Austrian and German fabrics and details. At la fille d’O “handmade” is more than merely “made by hand”, it means every piece bears witness to an enormous technical skill and results in a multi-layered final product.
Each and every one of these products have that distinct la fille d’O touch. It is not to be defined by one term – call it alchemy for sensuality, a feast for the visually hungry. la fille d’O brings satisfaction to the urge you never really acknowledged.
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about murielle Victorine scherre:
And what if it were magic? Nothing is ever innocent with la fille d’O, nor is it with Murielle Victorine Scherre either. She laughs when she says that she might almost have invented a religion, she is aware of it, and it is no boast. When you are visionary, generous, loving, respectful of a woman’s body and of women, and a feminist, it cannot be otherwise. All around her are clear signs of what she has started.
Often, perhaps always, she says “we” when talking about her work. Although she is the only designer at la fille d’O, she uses the collective pronoun because she knows that it’s about women and that it serves no purpose for her to make lingerie just for herself. “I’m not an artist, it’s really important for me to know what women want to wear. So I say we; I am something of a medium; I am the voice of many women.”
But first of all the name: it is the legacy of a film she saw although she can’t remember when; she must have been about sixteen, or twenty. What is certain is that it moved her deeply, like a great earthquake beneath her feet, with its attendant stream of questions. It’s the Story of O, a woman, a photographer, who agrees to give up her freedom and become an object of desire without any free will. The writer Pauline Réage had invented her and Just Jaeckin brought her into cinematic reality in 1975, two years before Murielle was born.
And la fille d’O, because it is not O, it is her progeny, a new generation which is the product of all that – the 20s flapper, the 50s pin-up, the seventies feminist, the power woman of the end of the millennium, then the androgynous woman of the early 21st century… In short, a woman who wants both to live her life and to please, which is not a contradiction. Giving nothing away, Murielle Victorine Scherre advocates balance and, as something of a guru, she shows the way.
She didn’t need to rack her brains to find her destiny. She had already tried out lingerie at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. She had then called her final-year collection A Maze, using the verb “amaze”, which also suggests the noun “a maze”. With Murielle, words matter. She had imagined the combination of a Lolita and a Betty Page, an innocent girl and a woman aware of her sex appeal, she already loved this contradiction. It had been necessary to add lingerie to her clothes, and this came naturally to her, “it’s from that theme that the whole process began.” It was 2001.
But if you look closely at her career path, her wardrobes, you will find that it was already under way a long time before. She has always bought lingerie, unusually, and accessories, but only those that are beautifully made, by hand and with a subtlety that she puts across with this truism: “I’d rather wear a pair of ordinary jeans and a white t-shirt with shoes and a “gorgeous” handbag, than an evening dress and cheap knickers underneath.”
With such a past, there’s no need to tell you that Murielle Victorine Scherre very soon grew tired of what she found in the shops; nothing really suited her. And as she is pretty obstinate and on top of that pretty practical (“when I think I can improve something, I want to do it”), she got down to work. “I immediately realised that there was a gap in the market, and that you couldn’t find super sexy, avant-garde lingerie that was practical to wear, it was either one thing or the other. And as I want it all, I like to try everything; I think that you have to have lingerie that demands and gives in the same way if you want to be perfect as a lover, housewife and mother, I don’t want lingerie that chafes or looks like something a whore might wear, I want the perfect balance between class, style, sexiness and quality of product. This is what I want to achieve with my collection.” Add to this the finest materials, and you will have a truly superior piece of lingerie.
As she is a designer who has as her secret weapon technique, she doesn’t know the meaning of the word “impossible”, she looks for a solution until she finds it. Did I already say that Murielle is stubborn? All her design is evidence of her technological sophistication. And if this is where it is original, it’s because she is a “nerd of lingerie technology”. Her incomparable knowledge allows her to invent, to take things further and to innovate. As a result she is often copied, but inevitably with less talent. She immediately recognises her lines, her research, her side seams and she notes down the financial or technical decisions that have been taken with these pale imitations, which wound her invention in a negative way, and kill her original design. She laughs about it, she who laughs at all obstacles, who makes her own materials and can get away with anything. Not for nothing is she a Virgo – whose commonly acknowledged traits are stubbornness, rigidity and flexibility at the same time. And with Scorpio rising, she knows where all her contradictions come from. “I do as I am”.
Since the devil is in the detail, Murielle Victorine Scherre chooses the finishes of her buckles, clasps, elastics and materials with great care. They are Belgian, without lace or any fripperies. The only thing that matters (to her) is the sensation, the feel must be close to perfection, because this little scrap of fabric is being readied to clothe the skin of les filles d’O, to be touched lightly by a lover, and that matters. This is also the reason why she favours the handmade; it’s about being human, it’s self-evident for her that each set in her collection should be made by seamstresses proud of their profession, whom she knows and whom she integrates into the process. “It’s their handwork that you find in the final product”. In Ghent, Wevelgem and Ypres, the women who make la fille d’O are part of its story. And this has been so since the beginning, eleven years ago. Murielle insists on it.
Similarly, she insists on the idea of “expanding her horizons”. The basis of la fille d’O is identity and difference, “the thing that is most attractive in humanity”. She loves everything that is personal and intimate – how our lips move when we talk, how our hands twirl around, the way our teeth line our mouths, in short, the wonderful mechanics of the body and everything that is out of the ordinary, that belongs only to one person, that marks out our difference and uniqueness. As a result, unsurprisingly, her lingerie is like no other and the same is true of her models. Down with uniformity, Murielle is wont to say.
And as she fears nothing, as she uses the side of the brain that lends itself to audacity, she has launched her label by throwing off all constraints, by growing slowly, with this well-constructed atypical profile and this great freedom of expression that give it such brilliant power. She has always been open and transparent, so that those who wear the label know her values, her honesty at each chapter of her life, in the manufacturing process, in the management and in her relationship with others.
One last detail: Murielle Victorine Scherre practices automatic writing, as a true freedom. When she has to give a name to her lingerie, she does not care about the codes that are so convenient for production. She closes one eye, plays with her depth of field, looks at the list of her pieces of music that scroll through her telephone memory, picks out the words that work well with the atmosphere of the collection she is working on, notes them down, and then has fun sticking them together, until it makes sense – Wood veil, Slow hands, Different suit… Consonants and vowels that inspire her and that, she believes, inspire those women who become self-confident with la fille d’O. Sometimes, when these women meet they murmur the name of the day like a secret password, “I’m wearing Sushi Baby, how about you?”
burgstraat 21 Gent 9000 Belgium
kasteelpleinstraat 64 Antwerp 2000 Belgium
Universiteit Gent
Universiteit GentEuropean Master Programme in Textile Engineering (E-Team)More Info
The Master of Science in Textile Engineering program is a two-year program in the field of textile technology. It is one of the oldest international programs of Ghent University. The training is a joint initiative of AUTEX, the worldwide association of textile universities. This English-taught master’s program is also called E-TEAM: European Textile Engineering Advanced Master. E-TEAM is still unique and offers students intensive mobility and high-quality multidisciplinary education in the field of textile technology. From the next edition, the global character will be structurally anchored by stronger involvement of partners from outside Europe and a program reform will be introduced to make better use of this potential.
The three main objectives of the program are to acquire knowledge and fundamental insights about textile materials, processes and applications, personal development and international networking.
E-TEAM’s primary goal is to acquire the necessary academic knowledge in the field of textile technology and to learn to apply this knowledge to design and develop innovative advanced textile products and processes.
In the first three semesters, the students follow lessons, each time around a different theme, namely textile materials (semester 1), production processes (semester 2) and technical applications (semester 3). In the fourth semester, students work on their master’s thesis, on a topic and location of their choice.
Teaching is provided by the most renowned teachers from around the world. They give their subject as an intensive course during one week at the location where the students are or supervise a student with the master’s thesis in their lab. Curriculums run across courses and semesters and provide a deepening of specific themes, such as computational methods and sustainability. There is significant industry input and two of the instructors even have their own businesses.
Extensive mobility plays a major role in personal development: students spend two to four semesters abroad, are part of a multicultural group and are taught by international teachers, each with their own communication style and learning method, in a changing environment and culture. Students become flexible, communicative, enterprising and solution-oriented. In addition, competences, skills and attitudes are actively developed through learning lines on scientific, critical and design thinking.
The many formal and informal contacts with local and international students, teachers, researchers and companies ensure that students can already build on an international and diverse network when they graduate.
E-TEAM alumni mainly choose a job in the textile or material industry, the supply sector (textile machine construction, chemistry) or sectors where textile products are used (transport, furniture sector, medical sector, construction, protection, etc.). Furthermore, all jobs are also open to typical engineering profiles: consultancy, government, education and research, …
About 1 in 6 E-TEAM alumni obtains a PhD.
What is particularly striking is the large share of international careers: almost half of the graduates opt for a job abroad.
From the 2020-2022 edition (starting in academic year 2020-2021), the first semester will always be organized at Ghent University, the second semester will rotate between University of West Attica (Greece, edition 2020-2022), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) , edition 2021-2023) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs Sud Alsace (France, edition 2022-2024) while for the third semester, students can choose between University of Borås (Sweden) and Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan). The fourth semester is reserved for a master’s thesis at a location of your choice.
Technologiepark 70 A Gent 9052 Belgium
Louise Kopij
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LOUISE KOPIJ BIJOUX
Souvent dorés, mes bijoux sont entièrement faits main, par moi-même, dans mon atelier belge. Ils sont pensés en mini séries de bijoux soignés, solides, de qualité esthétique et énergétique.
Pourquoi faire autrement?
Je les perçois comme des objets sacrés, des talismans protecteurs. Des reflets d’un instant, des états de nos émotions.
Conçus pour être solides et transmis.
Ils ont été, quelque part, mes premiers enfants.
UN PEU DE MOI
J’étudie les Arts, l’Histoire, l’Economie, les Sciences et toute chose qui puisse nourrir mon âme. Nous avons toujours quelque chose à découvrir. Cette curiosité se ressent dans mon approche. J’apporte un soin infini à la narration, au concept, au choix des matières : toujours naturelles, toujours d’une qualité infinie, toujours rares.
La plus respectueuse possible des sources avec lesquelles j’interagis : ce sont mes enfants, il s’agit de ne pas brouiller les pistes. Je propose de construire une vision, de transmettre de l’amour, de la beauté et une nouvelle narration aux personnes qui viennent jusqu’ici.
J’apprends, donc je suis. Le travail automatique de mes mains résonne comme le contact du musicien sur le bois : un mélange de technique et d’intuition pure. D’essais et d’erreurs mille fois répétés dans un cycle infini en chemin vers l’Union.
CRÉATRICE DANS L’ÂME
Il y a dans cette expérience que je partage avec vous, un temps pour l‘étude et un temps pour le lâcher prise. Ou comment envisager la construction d’un bijou comme un cadavre exquis composé dans la matière, pétris de réflexions du moment et proposé à l’autre comme le reflet d’un instant.
Avec en plus de ces réjouissances, les contraintes délicieuses que sont les besoins de portabilités, de solidité, de ces œuvres d’art à porter que sont les bijoux.
Je me soumets à la matière, c’est elle qui choisit ce qui est harmonieux, solide, ancré, empreint de poésie. Souvent j’enlève, je réduits, je taille jusqu’au noyau, jusqu’au cœur, ce qui est juste et suivi.
Je me réjouis de vous rencontrer et de construire juste pour vous, une pièce qui soit le reflet de votre parcours,
Merci d’être ici,
Louise
Juka Retail
Juka RetailMore Info
Juka.be VOF was founded by Karel Vanheste and Jurgen Desaever in 2016. Karel and Jurgen are graphically trained and were active in the graphic sector before 2015 with a focus on graphic design, printing and web design. Over time, the duo also started to offer e-commerce, at specific customer demand. After using a number of systems, they finally came into contact with Lightspeed.
Karel gained experience at Barco, Carrefour, McDonalds and Esko before becoming self-employed full-time with Scoop Creative Communication and Juka.be.
Jurgen has experience as an Art Director before independently starting Moof Graphic Design. In addition to being manager of Moof Graphic Design, he is also co-manager of Juka.be.
NEW 2022 – Juka.be vof becomes Juka.Retail bv
In 2022 Juka.be VOF was transformed into Juka.Retail BV and Jurgen Desaever left the company. Eline Seynaeve was appointed as co-director.
Eline Seynaeve
“I was born and raised in Eernegem. I live there with my husband and 2 small children Olivia & Jack. At Juka I am responsible for sales, training and follow-up.
Do you own a baby specialty store? Then I can also help you on birthlist.be, our tool for creating birth lists.”
Karel Vanheste
“Hello, I’m Karel. I live in Oostkamp with my family. As the founder of Juka, I am responsible for the daily management. Even complex questions are in good hands with me. With my technical knowledge I like to look for suitable solutions for our customers.”
What do we believe in?
Our core One man – to medium non-food retailers in a personal, customer-oriented way give more control and overview over sales, reporting, accounting by digitizing their store administration by linking different components (POS, eCOM, accounting, appointment management, loyalty, etc. ).
We supply and install software and hardware: POS, Accounting, loyalty, appointment management, ecommerce, etc.
We offer training with us and on site about POS, Accounting, loyalty, appointment management, ecommerce, etc.
EstablishmentThe retailer runs the store by feel and manages the business manually.
Our Vision Automation and digitization ensure simplification and realization of store operation within retail for effective and efficient management.
Our MissionWe see it as our vocation to personally provide, train and guide independent retailers with the necessary digital tools (tools) to easily and efficiently manage, control and optimize their business, i.e. full control over the current operation. and growth in the future. We do this with various digital tools: POS material, e-commerce, accounting, inventory management, appointment management, etc.
Koning Albertstraat 104 Zedelgem 8210 Belgium
ATOMIUMSQUARE 1 D236 BRUSSELS 1020 Belgium
Loyen Zeefdrukkerij
Loyen ZeefdrukkerijMore Info
Meer dan 30 jaar ervaring
Alle bedrukkingen van textiel op maat
Onze klanten weten dat we bij iedere order onze kennis, ervaring en expertise inzetten. We printen niet klakkeloos wat we opgestuurd krijgen, we denken altijd actief mee en controleren gratis uw aangeleverde bestanden. Onze voldoening halen we uit het feit, dat onze klant tevreden de deur uitloopt.
Torenstraat 23 Hoeselt 3730 Belgium
Vieux Jeu
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When you’ve tricked yourself out in a tennis class on a heavy scheduled day, you’ll need a good looking outfit to finish the day in. Hit the court with Vieux Jeu, the modernist sportswear label by Belgian designer Claudia Storme, whose polished yet effortless collection might be just what you’re looking for.
The trend is a classic: we all have a busy schedule but we don’t want to give up our sports class. ‘If you want to make it happen, it’s wise to prioritize style over function’, dixit Claudia Storme.
Discover the boho allure of Vieux Jeu, the Belgian label that captures the mood of a bygone era. Claudia Storme gets inspiration from one of the oldest games. Yet looking to the past doesn’t always suggest a yearning for what’s lost; rather, a desire to reinvent and redeem.
The go-to label for beautiful yet functional tennis clothing and accessories with that easy-to-wear je ne sais quoi, Vieux Jeu celebrates the glamour of a lost era, giving classical shapes a modern spin.
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What is Belgian Linen™?
The Belgian Linen™ quality label is an internationally registered trademark. The label was created to promote linen from Belgium, widely known as the world’s finest linen.
- Woven in Belgium
- At least 85% flax in weight
- Flax of European Origin
Europe’s finest flax
Flax thrives in this region of Western Europe. A moist and temperate climate and excellent soil quality provide for one of the best qualities of flax in the world. This region is situated between Caen and Amsterdam, Belgium being in the exact middle of it all.
Strictly governed
The Belgian Flax & Linen Association is the responsible and independent organization for authenticating fabrics as Belgian Linen™. Through membership, weavers can apply for a certification of their fabrics.
Once the Belgian Linen & Flax Association approves the certification, each batch of fabric is assigned a unique ID. Through this ID, buyers of the fabric and products based on it can always trace back the origins of the fabric.
Belgian Linen™ in your finished product
Buyers of our members’ linen fabrics can apply for a permit to use the Belgian Linen™ label as a marketing tool on their packaging and in their communication.
Current Members
Poortakkerstraat 98 Ghent 9000 Belgium
Thomas Bradley
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the history of Thomas Bradley
SINCE 1955
The history of thomas bradley dates back to 1955 when the founder of the company started a small workshop for shirts in belgium. Since the start of the production quality has always been the driving force of the brand. Making a shirt that offers the highest satisfaction level to the customer is settled deep in the dna of the company. For that reason we have become belgium’s premium shirt brand.
The best available fabrics
FROM RENOWN ITALIAN WEAVERS
For that reason thomas bradley only uses the best available fabrics on the market. Our design team sources the finest fabrics from the most renown italian weaver such as tessitura monti, cotonificio albini, canclini tessile.
Wassenhovestraat 1 Zottegem 9620 Belgium