Shops selling vintage Belgian Fashion
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About Vaniitas
Vaniitas is a Belgium based store (formerly located in Antwerp). We are currently only selling online, and do not longer accept appointments.
We sell a curated selection of vintage designer clothing from the early 90’s to the 2010’s and aim to offer you as much history on the pieces as possible.
Although we had loads of archivel designers, from Margiela to archive Helmut Lang and Hussein Chalayan, we found we had to narrow it down and find our niche. Looking at our fashion history, bringing forth the Antwerp Six and Martin Margiela, and as the chauvinists we are, we started focusing on the Belgian and Japanese avant-garde.
Belgian Designers
New lexicons of clothing were created and the essence of wabi-sabi present in the work of these Japanese aesthetes touched the soul of many young designers deeply. These young designers, who were looking for a new meaning to express their creativity through clothes, included the fashion students of the Antwerp Six: Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee.
The breakthrough occurred in 1986 as the group rented a truck and set out for the London Fashion Week with their collections. Confident that there would be other, less conventional ways than those of the established system, the revolutionary group rented a truck in 1986 and set out for the London Fashion Week with their collections, earning themselves the name ‘Antwerp Six’.
So began a new wave that would rock the foundations of Western fashion and paradigms established by haute couture and already shaken by the Japanese designers.
Japanese Designers
We included these Japanese designers because without Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons or Yohji Yamamoto there would be no Antwerp Six, Martin Margiela or deconstruction.
Their radical thinking translated into radical attires: garments reconstructed through the deconstruction of conventional patterns; monochromatic, focusing on ascetic and mysterious black; unusual volumes, sometimes over-sized proportions; asymmetry; overlapping; rips; seams and hems on the outside, taking part in the design process; unfinished garments; knots and bows as fastenings, keeping the pieces in place; faded boundaries between male and female.
Maison Martin Margiela
One of the Belgian school would take the poetics of deconstruction initiated by the Japanese designers even further – Martin Margiela.
Margiela, another Belgian contemporary, was not actually part of the group that showed in London, although he is often mistakenly described as one of the Antwerp Six; he had moved to Paris, initially working for Jean Paul Gaultier.
Martin Margiela found his own voice through a radical aesthetic: he maximised deconstruction and dissection of the garments, making this process a form of reflection; he moved elements, such as sleeves or collars, forcing the wearer to put them on sideways or backwards, and making garments appear two-dimensional when laid flat.
Where as couture used to be this grand spectacle of opulence, Martin preferred to work with found objects, recycling and upcycling them, following the thinking pattern of arte povera. This influence could also be found in the knitwear produced by Miss Deanna, featuring pulled hems, garments produced with tears and loose threads, stretched out jumpers.
His most iconic work might be the tabi boot, an interpretation of the split-toed tabi boots or jika-tabi, worn by Japanese workers. By putting a heel under the tabi boot, their initial function as a working shoe was completely transformed.
Over the years there have been many versions, from graffiti and cemented versions, to the most extreme sole-version that had to be duct-taped to the models’ feet.
When asked: ‘what is the most important footprint of your career?’ Martin Margiela stated: “it’s the Tabi boot.” It’s recognisable and it has been there for more than 25 years now – it’s there, and it still goes on, and it has never been copied. It’s an incredible story.”
Archive collections
It is hard to not understand our love of these iconic designers, changing the way we think and look at clothing and women’s bodies.
As a store, but also collectors, we try to gather as many historical pieces to distribute to fellow aficionados. To avoid keeping these items landing in private collections or just in the fashion museum archives, we keep our archive collection online. This way, we these pieces on exhibition for everyone to view. We’re not just a store; we aim to be a digital fashion library, keeping the history of these designers alive.
Vennekensbossen 11 Mol 2400 Belgium
Middlemanstore
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Explore our curated selection of hard-to-find designer menswear pieces from the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s.
Middleman emphasizes designers who have brought unconventional and often taboo subcultures to the forefront of high fashion, such as Raf Simons, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Walter Van Beirendonck, along with Japanese streetwear upstarts-turned-runway-heavyweights like Jun Takahashi and Takahiro Miyashita. We aim to make available not just the highly coveted signature works of such designers, but also expand awareness of the furthest bounds to which their creative prowesses stretched.
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STOF is a multidisciplinary platform, aiming to create a dynamic space where we can showcase truly interesting people, culture and fashion. We do this via editorials, articles and more, as long as the stories can be told and shared with you.
We also want collections to last as heritage, giving products an afterlife while providing a new spotlight for often-overlooked designers.
STOF works from a perspective of elevating each other, so do reach out if you feel like we could do something interesting together. Whether it be something in fashion, music, art… our doors are open.
We mainly focus on Belgian designers such as Maison Martin Margiela, Raf Simons, Dries Van Noten, A.F. Vandevorst, Ann Demeulemeester and more.
If you are in the midst of a closet clean up and would like to get rid of some items, we’d gladly help you out.
From making the selection of your items, to taking pictures, pricing, storage, seller inquiries, listing and shipping your items.
On the other hand if you’re looking for any archive pieces in particular, do let us know. We might be able to get our hands on it!
Opening Hours
Monday to Tuesday: On appointment
Wednesday to Saturday: 12h00 – 18h00
Sunday: Closed
Mechelsesteenweg 78 Antwerp 2018 Belgium
Hetero Doxa
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Heterdoxa is a designer vintage store & online shop run by Laetitia Jeurissen & Ludwig Beger.
We offer a personal selection of designer vintage pieces spanning a broad range of eras, styles and inspirations. Our selection criteria is based on pieces we love for their uniqueness, the quality of the garments and their design.
Heterodoxa was founded in 2020, when Laetitia’s family’s high-end fashion retail shop Jeurissen closed its doors after 80 years of activity. For 4 generations, the family-run multi-brand fashion shop, located in Hasselt, Belgium, sold collections from avant-garde fashion designers by the likes of Courrèges, Alaïa, Thierry Mugler, Issey Miyake, Jil Sander, Prada, Westwood.. only to name a few.
With the desire to pass on her family’s legacy in fashion and her own love for vintage, Laetitia recuperated and started selling the shop’s sleeping archive. Thus Heterodoxa was born.

After 3 years of a nomadic and virtual existence of travelling pop ups and selling online, Ludwig Beger, a passionate vintage clothing and furniture collector, who for the past 20 years has been building up his own archive of both designer men and womenswear, decided to join the adventure.
Ludwig’s own archive is as eclectic as it is singular, yet one can notice his deep admiration for Japanese fashion design and his soft spot for classic Italian tailoring by the likes of Giorgio Armani, Prada and Etro.
Bringing together both their collections and their visions, they opened their physical store in Brussels as of January 2024.

Heterodoxa now has a new home, where lovers of vintage can come see our ever changing and evolving collection, touch and feel the fabrics and come play dress up.
Heterodoxa is a name of Greek origin and used within the field of Biology.
The adjective is used to describe plants that divert from their genome, hence resisting the DNA and definitions that try to categorize them.
Heterodoxa could be freely interpreted as someone who is undefinable, who doesn’t conform to orthodox or standard beliefs.
And this would correspond exactly to the type of person Heterodoxa wishes to dress: someone bold, eccentric, creative and idiosyncratic.

Opening Hours:
Wed-Sat 11:00-18:00
Sun 12:00-17:00

Rue Charles Hanssens 15 Brussels 1000 Belgium




