ACT est né de l’association de trois designers textile. Toutes trois diplômées de l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre et spécialisées en impression textile et en maille, elles vous proposent de partager leur amour du textile à l’occasion de stages et de cours privés.
Après des études de stylisme à l’Institut Saint-Luc et de design textile à l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Lætitia a ouvert son atelier d’impression textile à Bruxelles.
Son travail de designer textile — sérigraphe consiste principalement en des collaborations avec des stylistes tels que Cathy Pill ou Valérie Berckmans pour qui elle effectue aussi bien un travail de recherche et de prototypage que de production.
En plus des cours pour enfants et adultes qu’elle anime régulièrement dans son atelier, Lætitia occupe depuis le mois de septembre 2007 un poste de conférencière à l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles où elle enseigne la sérigraphie aux élèves de l’atelier de design textile.
Durant son parcours, elle a animé de nombreux stages aux Ateliers d’Art Contemporain ou plus récemment à la galerie Les Drapiers.
SUITSHERWELL was founded by Gloria and Mandy Kourkouliotis, two sisters from Genk with Greek roots on their father’s side. Gloria is a political scientist with a heart for sustainability and ethical business. Mandy is a journalist and communication scientist by training. She writes for several lifestyle and interior design magazines. Together they form a strong ping pong team. Their youngest sister Xenia is still studying, but behind the screen of her smartphone she helps to map out the social media story. Her official introduction will follow soon.
Their minimalist tailor-made suit label combines quality with affordability and inclusiveness in the broadest sense of the word. They not only want to be a fashion label, but also a community that stands for openness, equality and female empowerment. With great respect for the female body in all its variants. From very slim to beautiful, round shapes. They’ve got you covered!
The own designs are sustainably and ethically produced in Portugal. The European country par excellence in terms of start-ups and a progressive fashion industry. They avoid the not so transparent Silk Road and work with local partners as much as possible. For their packaging, a collaboration was established with Ropak from Genk and their beautiful images were taken by the talented photographer Shari Ruzzi. They found the right partner (De Gouden Draad in Hasselt) for customizing the suits through the AZO project. A European initiative that guides recognized refugees to entrepreneurship.
Buying a SUITSHERWELL tailor-made suit is not only a wardrobe investment, but also the realization of a dream. Supporting young, female and Belgian entrepreneurship.
Since our founding in 1959, we have continuously built on our future.
True to our roots as a family business, our employees, innovation and sustainability are at the heart of our activities.
Our purpose
Shaping sustainable living, together
People’s living choices heavily impact the world around us and we want to make sure they have enough sustainable options to choose from. Even more, we want to make the sustainable choice the easy choice. This purpose will help us to maintain focus going forward and will be the glue to unify our international teams.
Our mission
Enhancing how every generation lives and works
As a global family business, Beaulieu International Group develops and co-creates – in an innovative, entrepreneurial and sustainable way – flooring and material solutions to enhance the quality of living and working for every generation.
Our history
To trace B.I.G.’s origins, we have to go to back 1959, when we diversified our business from flax cultivation into textiles.
The company has experienced solid expansion in the last decade, driven by autonomous growth and a number of strategic acquisitions.
More than 60 years later, we are a seasoned, privately-owned industrial group and a global top 5 player in flooring and material solutions.
Today, B.I.G. is headquartered in Belgium and employs over 4.900 people worldwide. We have production sites in 17 countries across Eurasia, America and Oceania and serve customers in 140 countries.
The beginning
1959
Roger De Clerck founded Ter Lembeek in Wielsbeke.
The company manufactures upholstery fabrics,
in the beginning often produced by home weavers.
We are Feerce socks – a sport & sneaker socks brand from Belgium, offering unique pairs of socks to strong and independent females. We believe that each female deserves comfort and style and should not have to compromise between the two. Our socks are a combination of high quality and comfort with refreshing and eye-catching designs.
As sustainability is high on our agenda, we manufacture all of our socks in an ethical and sustainable manner – our designs are always produced responsibly by trusted manufacturers.
Meet our Team
Justine De Sutter – Co-Founder
Passion for design with a business mindset, graduate in Applied Economics – MSC Finance from Brussels. In her work she continuously seeks for optimization and strategic solutions yet pursues this in a creative and playful manner. In the past, Justine has been a WTA/ITF player in the International Tennis Circuit for which she travelled around the world for more than 10 years.
Hanna Van Raemdonck – Co-Founder
Perfectionist with vision, graduate in Fashion & Design from Ghent. Designing is her passion, she loves mixing with colours, technical yarns & textures. Hanna values timelessness whilst always keeping creativity at the forefront. In the past Hanna has been active as a competitive runner in her early years, and afterwards pursued an international modeling career.
For over a century, the Liebaert family has built up a valuable trove of savoir-faire by investing both in highly skilled team members and state of the art technologies. This vision, which puts creativity at the forefront in the manufacture of premium quality textiles, has earned Liebaert a high-ranking spot at the very top of the European fashion industry. Quality has always been the very first concern for Liebaert. Today, the company is renown throughout the textile industry for its ability to develop and manufacture bespoke products.
Furthermore, their dyeing and printing techniques are widely prized, as is their commitment to produce environmentally friendly fabrics, which has been lauded with an ISO14001 certificate. Combining talent and innovation, the Liebaert group engineered NanoStitch®, a new generation of high-performance stretch fabrics knitted with Lycra® fibre. This ideal blend of invisible knit technology and wonderful sensory comfort makes NanoStitch® fabrics a perfect match for every sports challenge.
Retail Branding + E-commerce
People do not buy brands, they join brands. Therefore, it is important that brand touchpoints are aligned on all levels to create a coherent brand experience.(Including eShop – Shopify Experienced)
Graphic Design
The graphic language is key, ranging from hangtags to complete CI guidelines… Every visual execution should breathe your brand DNA so that customers can recognize your brand in the twinkling of an eye.
Photography
In the era of social media images are key. Being an enthusiastic photographer, I also translate brand IDs into lifestyle and product photography.
3D Design
Retail means shops. Shops mean displays, fixtures, planograms and tailored shop solutions for your brand, a whole design package.
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.
De geschiedenis van het Vlasmuseum begint in de jaren zestig. De vlasnijverheid was de belangrijkste economische activiteit in het zuiden van West-Vlaanderen. Wanneer deze sector door een zware crisis ging, besefte Bert Dewilde dat dit streekverhaal dreigde verloren zou gaan. Daarom startte hij met een verzameling van werktuigen. Samen met enthousiaste vrijwilligers en met de ondersteuning van bedrijven werkte hij aan diverse educatieve tentoonstellingen. In 1982 ging het Nationaal Vlasmuseum voor het grote publiek open.
KANT- EN LINNENMUSEUM
Door massale spontane schenkingen aan het museum groeide bij Bert en Annick Dewilde het idee om een tweede vleugel te openen over de afgewerkte vlasproducten. In 1998 was het Kant- en Linnenmuseum een feit. De hulp van vele vrijwilligers, scholen en sponsors was cruciaal voor de rol die het museum speelde in de regio. Het Vlasmuseum stond gekend voor zijn realistische taferelen, zijn paard, zijn mooie verzameling kant en natuurlijk zijn enthousiaste demonstrateurs. Het museum sleepte talrijke erkenningen in de wacht waaronder het label van erkend museum met regionale indeling en de internationale prijs voor autocartoerisme. Bekende staatshoofden bezochten het museum.
TEXTURE
Onder leiding van Lies Buyse werd sinds 2009 gewerkt aan een grondige herprofilering van het museum en de verhuis naar een betekenisvolle locatie. Deze locatie vertaalde zich in een vlasverzendhuis uit 1912 in het centrum van Kortrijk. Na een sluitingsperiode van twee jaar heropent het museum in 2014 de deuren als Texture en breit het een nieuw hoofdstuk aan een reeds mooi verhaal. Vanaf nu ontdekken jong en oud waardevolle collecties vlas en textiel via een fris verhaal in een modern museumgebouw.
Our purpose
Our mission
Our history
The beginning
