Rembo styling
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WHO MADE MY DRESS
The mission of Rembo Styling is to inspire brides worldwide and to help to provide them with an unforgettable day.
A Rembo Styling wedding dress bears the mark of unique craftsmanship; your dress is designed with passion in Belgium and made with lots of love by our highly skilled seamstresses in our own atelier in Portugal.
We only produce on demand to keep our ecological footprint limited because we care about you and our planet!
OUR DREAMTEAM
Rembo Styling is a Belgian family business that has specialized for decades in the design and production of high-quality wedding dresses.
The Portuguese workshop is the heart and soul of the company and acts as a well-oiled machine. Because Rembo Styling has this expertise in their own hands, it’s able to respond quickly to new demands from the market and to make magic happen. Especially in challenging times, we go the extra mile for our brides.
The creative team is led by Chiara De Vlieger, the 4th generation of the company. We consider ourselves as a young and dynamic team with a high focus on innovation, quality, and becoming more sustainable. Creatively we follow our own path and we hold our company values such as team spirit, respect, continuity, and reliability close to our heart.
Rembo Styling is part of the Marylise and Rembo Fashion Group; a respectable family company and the driving force behind the three Belgian bridal brands Marylise, Rembo Styling, and Carta Branca.
ALTER ECO
Rembo Styling stands for sophisticated, daring, and cheerful.
The contemporary bride realizes there is no planet B. She wants a sustainable dress, locally produced and made from responsible materials.µ
Rembo Styling answers this question with a sustainable capsule within the collection. Our goal is to do better every season and to make a larger part of the collection sustainable. A lot of attention goes to the search for the right materials.
We found beautiful materials such as bamboo, Belgian hemp, cupro viscose and recycled polyester. Sustainable can also be fashionable!
UNIQUELY TAILORED, JUST FOR YOU
Thanks to the use of new made to measure technology, we are able to deliver a wedding dress that perfectly matches your figure.
This groundbreaking concept in the bridal industry gives brides to option to have a made-to-measure wedding dress or in other words, a dress entirely tailored to her size.
This innovative software gives each dress an instant proper ‘fitting’. Choosing for a made-to-measure dress limits the alterations in the store, apart from the length of your dress. Your dress will be a unique piece at an affordable price, made with only the best materials.
Ask your wedding shop for more information about this unique future!
REMBO STYLISTS
Generaal Belliardstraat 21-23 Antwerp 2000 Belgium
Natthida
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Natthida makes exclusive, hand-made, high quality evening, cocktail and wedding dresses. The store is located in the city center of Antwerp in Belgium. NATTHIDA is an experienced designer and seamstress of all types of dresses.
We have an experienced sales and support team to help you create the dress of your dreams. We would like to invite you in our store to talk about your dress.
With NATTHIDA you will get the best quality and service.
Kipdorpvest 41 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
Dries Van Noten
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Biography
Born in Antwerp in 1958, Dries Van Noten is the third generation in a family of tailors. At the age of 18, Dries entered the fashion design course of Antwerp’s Royal Academy. On graduating, he began to freelance as a consultant designer before starting his own collection of menswear in 1986. Since its beginnings Dries Van Noten has presented collections for women and men for Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter each year. He
celebrated his 50th fashion show in 2004 and 100th fashion show in 2017.
In June 2008, the Council of Fashion Designers of America honoured Dries Van Noten with its International
Designer of the Year Award. 2014 began with the grand opening of Dries Van Noten, “Inspirations”, a first
ever exhibition featuring his designs and influences at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Another
configuration of the exhibit moved to Antwerp in 2015. In July France decorated Dries Van Noten with the
honour of ‘Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.’ In October 2016, Dries Van Noten wins the Culture
Award from The Province of Antwerp for his contribution to Culture.
In June 2018 Puig entered the capital structure of Dries Van Noten as majority owner. The designer remains, over the long term, a significant minority shareholder and continues his role as chief creative officer and chairman of the board.
2019 saw Mr Van Noten collaborate with world renowned fashion designer Mr Christian Lacroix on his
collection for Women, Spring/Summer 2020. In June 2020, and September 2021, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has again nominated Dries Van Noten for its International Designer of the Year Award.
Q&A with dries van noten
When did you know that designing clothes was your path & passion?
There was a certain logic to my choice as my family had been involved in fashion and the garment business for generations. My father created one of Belgium’s most innovative retailers of ‘Pret-a-Porter’ and my grandfather was a tailor. I inherited my love of garment making, its traditions and rituals, from these men and my mother. Family immersed me in the craft and skill of fabrics, impassioned me with the power of flair and style for women and men that fired my quest to explore and question the subjectivity of “beauty” and the role it would play in my life. My family was very supportive and encouraged me to continue its fashion tradition. I regularly accompanied my parents to Paris and Milan on their many buying trips for collections. Though they had imagined I might take over the retail business, that I was passionate to become a fashion designer came as a great surprise to them.
What is your design signature?
I see a garment as a singular item of excellence that is part of a larger story told, firstly, within a designer’s vision for a collection and ultimately as part of the final wearer’s expression of their style through their wardrobe. My joy is to create a garment that fuses and balances beauty, craft and function, a garment that can perform well and continue in time to become part of life’s story. I enjoy juggling with colours, textures and light in a way that evokes rather than provokes.
Where do you come up with your best ideas?
The spark of inspiration for the narrative a collection rarely ever comes in the same way. The initial idea can sometimes come quickly and remain constant throughout the design process… occur on a walk in my garden, encountering a painting or the life and work of an artist. It can be something rarefied or ordinary, for example, suddenly looking at something that has surrounded me every day and seeing it in a different way that inspires. It can be a photograph in a book or a magazine, a re-read passage in a loved book, a conversation with friends or my design team or a piece of music. For other collections the story is more of a journey, deliberate, considered, and evolves through time and the design process. Anything can be that spark that ignites the creative process. What I have learned is that one recognises the spark when it happens, it may not be too planned, be ‘of its time’ and is more emotional than cerebral.
Is there a difference between style and fashion?
Of course, style comes from within..
What colour or fabric would you never use?
None actually! Often, challenging myself to work with colours, fabrics, or forms that I have disliked and bringing them into a collection can be an important aspect of the creative process.
What is beauty?
The idea of beauty is supremely subjective and very personal. Time also plays a role when our view on what is beautiful to us evolves. A flower, a building or a garment can be a thing of wonder for one while leaving another completely indifferent. What was beautiful to us even recently may be ugly today. Luckily, all designers have their own eye on and language of beauty.
What is ugliness?
It resonates in the same way as beauty for me. It is exciting when the formerly ugly becomes beautiful.
Timeline
- 1981 Dries Van Noten graduates from Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp
- 1986 Dries Van Noten started his first own collection of menswear after working as a freelance consultant designer
- 1989 Flagship store opens in Antwerp, Belgium
- 2004 50th Show
- 2007 Paris store opens at Quai Malaquais, Paris France
- 2008 Dries Van Noten wins Internation Designer of the year at CFDA awards./ Dries Van Noten Sacred “Royal Designer for Industry” from the RSA Trustee Board in London
- 2009 Flagship store opens in Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan/ Stores opens for the men at Quai Malaquais, Paris, France
Dries Van Noten Induction to The “Galerie Des Eminents” By The Flemish Chamber Of Commerce (Voka)
Dries van Noten is gifted a gold medal by The Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium
Dries Van Noten Is Honored With the “Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion” By the Couture Council of the Museum at Fit In New York - 2010 Dries Van Noten Is Invited To Preside Over the 25th Edition of the “Festival International De Mode et De Photographie” of Hyres, France
- 2013 Olfactory portrait by Frederic Malle with The Nose Bruno Jonanovic
- 2014 xhibition at The Musée Des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France
A book that accompanied his exhibition at Musée des arts Décoratifs in Paris, France - 2015 Dries Van Noten is decorated by Jack Lang of the medal
Opening of Dries Van Noten Osaka - 2016 Wins Culture Award from The Province of Antwerp
- 2017 An intimate portrait into the life, mind and creative heart the designer
A book in two volumes that depicts and documents his first 100 collection and Fashion shows
In recognition of his career as fashion designer and his contribution to the Cultural life of his native land - 2018 DVN enters in partnership with Puig as Major Stakeholders
- 2019 Collaboration with Mr Christian Lacroix
- 2020 Nominated by The CFDA for International Designer of The Year Award
Stores opens in Shanghai, China
Flagship stores opens in Los Angeles, USA the first Dries Van Noten store in the Unites States of America
Godefriduskaai 36 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
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WELCOME TO
OUR BEAUTIFUL
CHAOS
Essentiel Antwerp stands for refreshing, offbeat & luxurious fashion, renowned for its graphic or floral prints and trendy mixes of color. The rich and unique collections are designed to provoke an emotional response.
STEP INTO OUR WORLD WHERE IMAGINATION AND BEAUTY REIGN, WHERE LACK OF ORDER CREATES A SPACE FOR SURPRISE.
The Antwerp-based brand is influenced by the numerous life experiences of its founders Esfan Eghtessadi and Inge Onsea. Esfan, the son of Nicole Cadine, grew up in a world of textiles, sketches and fashion collections. Inge had a vintage loving mother, was a fashion model and spent five years in India, where she fell in love with colors, prints and unexpected combinations.
WE WANT
TO BE YOUR
PINK PILL
In 1999 Esfan and Inge took a chance and launched a T-shirt collection. Four styles, twenty different colors: their response to the monochrome fashion landscape. After a year, the first store opened in Antwerp. Four seasons later, knitwear, jackets, dresses, shirts, and trousers in trendy colors, new materials, and an entire range of accessories were added. Essentiel Antwerp grew into a global brand with a powerful message of love, fun, and colorful surprises. A universal message that translates anywhere and everywhere in the world.
WE WANT
TO BATTLE
BOREDOM
WE CONSIDER OUR ACCESSORIES AS THE CHILLI PEPPERS IN OUR ALREADY TASTY DISH.
LIFE LOOKS BETTER IN COLOR: STAY CURIOUS AND ORIGINAL TO KEEP THINGS SURPRISING AND CELEBRATE LIFE.
Arenbergstraat 21 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
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FLOR D.
by Flor Depla
Flor Depla is an experienced brand strategist. Her eccentric method of analyzing the past, the present and the future trends gives her an unique way of grasping consumers and society of today and tomorrow. Her functional, energetic and efficient designs are a trigger point: she is adding value in order to inspire humans as individuals understanding the importance of the group and of natural resources. Embracing a slow living lifestyle for more than 25 years.
Flor Depla and F.E.E.D Functional Energetic Efficient Design, is her freelance brand consultant part of Intens41agencies. With F.E.E.D she helps clients develop plans across all disciplines to bring out their full potential. She is a hands-on creative thinker, always looking back into the future. And she gets excited developing a lifestyle society that offers a way of living with respect for nature, traditions and high-tech technology.
With Intens41agencies she matches curated brands, as a brand builder for niche brands, and sub cultures brands, brands with the right shops in the BeNeLux.
Welcome INTENS41 AGENCIES.
Our company is specialized in advice to the young & existing companies. INTENS41 AGENCIES has grown from experience to the partner you look for. Our customers have reached a strong position in the Benelux and are ready for the new digital world.
We have the knowledge and the partners you need to organise your shop for offline, online, social media, the accelerating world we live and work in. We give advice & schooling.
Our juridical department helps you get started. After “customer intelligence” is needed to know what to buy for the new consumer that sailes day & night on the web for his & her choice.
INTENS41 AGENCIES works with internal as external advisors for all special Q&A.
INTENS41 AGENCIES stands close to the entrepeneur.
Arsenaalstraat 5 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
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THE SOUL15 STORY
Founder and CEO of Soul15 is Chantal Copello (1982 – Rome), artistic director, choreographer and
former professional dancer.
Born in Rome from a family steeped in the arts, Chantal’s interest in theatre took root early in her life.
By the age of 10 she joined the National Academy of Performing Arts where she graduated.
Her career as a ballet & musical performer took her to different countries, most significantly:
the Royal Opera house in London, The Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp & Stage Entertainment in Holland.
During this period Chantal got fascinated by the world behind the scenes with significant involvement in
the fabrication and initial development of a production from conception to performance.
Soon she started to develop her own vision & themed acts for event entertainment.
Following her passion for different artistic expressions she went on creating her own business: Soul15 Costumes & Concepts.
Soul15 aspires to be a one-stop-shop for event entertainment and provide performers, (custom or rental) costumes, props, styling & make-up.
“Soul15’s work cannot be cataloged and is impossible to label.
Our Visual Tales are artistic performances that arouse strong, intense and contrasting emotions.”
Sint Jansvliet 2 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
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One of the 2010 alumni of the Antwerp Academy, fashion designer Cedric Jacquemyn has developed his darkly romantic menswear aesthetic into a ready-to-wear business. Cedric’s work is defined by a sensitive touch – sculpting natural fibres into slim, flowing garments imbued with historical, ethnic and mythical significance.
Cedric carries on a continuing artistic dialogue with the photographer Yves de Brabander, who’s lens captures the brand’s visual identity in arresting natural and manmade landscapes…
Showing off his skills as a sartorial tailor, Cedric Jacquemyn’s collection starts at the root of cloth and construction; by taking perfect cuts with great fabrics and combining these into meticulous fits.
Rites of passage references are seen through the evolutionary nature of some of the styles. Long, architectural silhouettes are a dominant force and are paired with leather boots. Each layer is pulled back and provides the eye to view something new and interesting. It is the beautiful and delicate balance of knitwear and leather that makes Jacquemyn’s collection shine.
ATELIER Cedric Jacquemyn Gijzelaarsstraat 29 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
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Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
Garderobe+ is a fashion agency in Antwerp and is run by Peggy-Marie Bracke. Our offer consists of small labels, some of which are Belgian and many of them eco-friendly. What they all have in common is the fact that they are made with love and an eye for craftsmanship. Each label tells its own story and seemingly coincidentally fits in with the others. A symbiosis naturally arises between the different collections, based on their individuality, purity and passion.
Ever since I was a kid I used to look at the world wide-eyed and soak up everything like a sponge. That hasn’t changed. Whether drawing, photography, furniture design, architecture, music or fashion: they all touch my senses. Because you have to live with your heart.
I have been in sales for fifteen years, of which twelve years with the same company. I started as a saleswoman and worked my way up to manager. After meeting a designer in 2006, I decided to quit this job and become self-employed.
Wardrobe+ was born. But I wanted a different approach than the other agencies. One that is not purely based on short-term cooperation, but on a sustainable, honest relationship of trust. Not a one-night stand, but a solid relationship.
When I was still buying collections myself, I was always amazed at how little the representatives thought about. In many cases it was only about writing large orders. So I don’t work with minimum orders. After all, as a retailer you know your budget like no other. Moreover, you only sell the products that you support yourself. In this way we create a win-win situation together. That’s how I want to work in this industry and that’s how I want to get the best out of it for you, for myself and for my designers.
Hessenplein 2 ntwerpen 2000 Belgium
Lies Mertens
Lies MertensSteenhouwersvest 6 Antwerpen 2000 Belgium
Klaar Devillé
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Klaar Devillé
The brand
Design and craftsmanship can perfectly stand together. If you work with natural materials you can combine them perfectly. Even more so: Belgian designers excel at it. The luxurious line of bags by Klaar Devillé fits perfectly within this spirit.
Bringing a new brand onto the market that stands for affordable high quality and authenticity is not an easy task. Unless you know perfectly well why.
The desire for purity, fierce elegance, quality, comfort, wearability, durability, and above all honesty, made Klaar take the step towards her own timeless and minimalistic high-end collection handmade bags.
The designer
Klaar Devillé comes from a large, artistic family of musicians, artists, and theatre-makers. Art, architecture, ballet, and theatre are what inspire her.
Klaar studied Slavic Languages and Eastern European Studies at the KULeuven and worked for several years as an analyst Eastern Europe for the Belgian State Security. When Klaar was part of a foreign security service recruitment progam in 2004, she decided to quit her job and return to her old love, fashion.
Klaar decided to study fashion design in Antwerp and maroquinerie (leatherworks) in Brussels and founded Atelier Devillé a few years later together with her husband.
Klaar is a mother of 3 and sister of award-winning theater author and director Stijn Devillé.
Store opens on:
Wed: 12.00 – 18.00h
Thu, Fri & Sat: 11.00 – 18.30h
1st & 3th Sunday of the month: 12.00 – 17.00h
Closed on Monday & Tuesday
Volkstraat 20 Antwerp 2000 Belgium
Leeuwerikstraat 8 Rotselaar 3110 Belgium