The Antwerp Six refers to a group of influential fashion designers from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts that emerged in the 1980s and presented a distinct vision for fashion that established Antwerp as a notable location for fashion design. Jump to: navigation, search The term fashion applies to a characteristic means of expression or presentation; fashions may follow trends, in which they gain or lose popularity. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp) in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to a number of triptychs by Renaissance Belgian painter Rubens. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
However, these are seven people. Ann Demeulemeester (born in 1959 in Belgium) is a fashion designer whose label (Ann Demeulemeester) clothing is usually displayed during Paris Fashion Week. ... Dirk Bikkembergs (born January 2, 1959 in Cologne, Germany) is a Belgian fashion designer. ...
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Haute Couture
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"Fashion in Antwerp" from the Antwerp tourism office
Antwerp (Antwerpen, in Dutch, Anvers, in French), the second largest city of Belgium and the capital of the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders and a major port and industrial center, is the home of the second largest Jewish community of Belgium and one of the most observant Jewish communities in Western Europe.
Antwerp was recaptured by the Spanish troops in 1585 who then introduced an intolerant policy favoring the Roman Catholic Church with the effect that the Protestant inhabitants of Antwerp and probably most of the crypto-Jews fled to the Northern Provinces and particularly to Amsterdam.
Antwerp is also the home of a new Hasidic group that was formed after WW2 by the followers of Rabbi Yitzhok Gvirzman (1881-1976), also known as Reb Itzikel (or Yitzkel), a Galician-born descendant of the Pshevorsker dynasty of rabbis, who immigrated to Antwerp in the 1950's.
Antwerp (;) is a city and a municipality and the chief centre of commerce in Flanders and Belgium; it is capital of Antwerp province, in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions.
Antwerp lies at the end of the extension of the oldest railway line in continental Europe (built in May 1835 between Brussels and the city of Mechelen, and extended to Antwerp in May 1836).
Antwerp was the headquarters of Edward III during his early negotiations with Jacob van Artevelde; his son Lionel, earl of Cambridge, was born there in 1338.
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