Photographer unknown, courtesy of MoMu archive
Graduation silhouette from ‘Regeneration’, collection by Stephan Schneider 1994.
This Tumblr blog is a collaboration between the Europeana Foundation and the Europeana Fashion project. Each month, this Tumblr will showcase a different theme curated by experts from the fashion and cultural heritage community. MoMu’s curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven curates this month’s Tumblr images with pictures from the vaults of her research on the 50th anniversary of the fashion department of the Antwerp Academy. In September 2013, the MoMu exhibition ‘Happy Birthday Dear Academie’ will put the spotlight on these 50 years of Antwerp Fashion. Starting with the Antwerp Six, different generations of designers hailing from Antwerp will be featured in this series of images, interspersed with MoMu collection items by designers from the Antwerp Academy.
Photographer unknown.
Graduation silhouette by Erik Verdonck, 1993.
Photographer unknown, courtesy of MoMu archive.
Graduation silhouette from the collection, ‘Half Wild, half Child’ by Olivier Rizzo, 1993.
Photograph courtesy of MoMu archives.
Graduation picture of Sarah Corynen, 1993.
Photograph by Ronald Stoops
Graduation silhouette of Jurgi Persoons, 1992, ‘Modern primitifs’.
Photograph by Etienne Tordoir (www.catwalkpictures.com) , courtesy of MoMu archive.
One of the graduation silhouettes (1991) of Ann Vandevorst, inspired by Joseph Beuys.
Photograph by Pawel Czermak.
Ann Demeulemeester’s Golden Spindle collection of 1983 (post graduation) shows how early on she developed her own stylistic language and signature style.
Photograph by Pawel Czermak
Dries Van Noten backstage finishing off a model’s outfit, ca. 1979.
Photo by Marthe Van Leemput, courtesy of MoMu archive.
This 1979 academy silhouet by Dirk Van Saene was part of his 2nd year collection (he graduated in 1981). In the second year, the students are required to make a historical costume (his costume was German Renaissance) and deduct a contemporary collection from that research.
This particular silhouette shows how the students from the Antwerp Academy were looking at what was happening in the international fashion scene in the late 1970s, rather than just following their teacher’s lead.
Photo from Dirk Bikkembergs’ personal archive.
Graduation silhouette by Dirk Bikkembergs, 1982, menswear collection with leather garments inspired by African tribes.
Image courtesy of Marthe Van Leemput in the MoMu archive
Graduation silhouettes by Martin Margiela (1980), shown in the ‘Lange Zaal’ of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. The theme of his collection was Constructivism. The last silhouette was ‘the bride’, she wears a dress made from mica (plastic).
