Posts tagged with 'Brussels':

Fashion design in China's capital is rapidly becoming one of the most experimental, exciting and vigilantly anticipated areas of creative expression. Among the hot up-and-comers, expat Elisabeth Koch describes her millinery business as having "hit the ground running," but the way we see things, she's off to a sprint.
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If Patagonia and North Face just won't cut it for your next cold weather destination, Belgian company Chauncey will chicly warm you up. This Brussels-based menswear label has the aesthetically minded globetrotter covered with a collection that spins some mighty good yarn. Nathalie Bouhana (who designed knitwear for menswear collections at Hermès, Salvatore Ferragamo, Purdey and Dunhill) and photographer David Sidka craft timeless pieces designed for frigid climates.
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Unassuming knits, leather bombers and paired down denim targeting low-key fashion boys keep the eponymous house of Martin Margiela going. But from the inception of the ellusive Belgian designer's label, his image has been marked by the break-apart, put-back-together styles of deconstructed clothing. For fall, he showed tuxedo tops morphing into satin skirts; sleeves turned inside out, exposed lining and patchwork knits bunch together to sublime effects. And not since the intellectual fashion statement years of the mid-nineties has Margiela's signature aesthetic been so pertinent. Fashion is embarking on one of its thinking periods and the heady potion of deconstruction is leading the way.  read more »