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Hello,
A bit later than usual
due to the holidays, here’s Mintred nr 3, the
August issue. We’re introducing a new category
today: ‘New Talent in Fashion’ and from
next month on we’ll also add ‘New Talent in
Photography’.
In every issue we’ll propose
talented people from Belgium, whom we believe
willl go far in their respective fields in the
near future. If you have suggestions for
creatives you feel fit in one of these
categories, or know of an exciting new
restaurant, shop, exposition or other news from
or about Belgium, please let us
know.
Thank you and enjoy the beautiful
summer!
Lambermontplaats 26, B-2000
Antwerp
Tel / fax +32-3/237.33.82.
E-mail: mintred@pandora.be
Copy &
concept: Ninette Murk (www.mintred.be)
random
titbits: Mischa Bludts (www.guerilla.be)
Layout
& Design: T-kila (www.kila.be)
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DESIGNERS
AGAINST
AIDS
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 World famous
Antwerp club Café d’Anvers celebrates its 15th
birthday this year and
during the month of october there will be
parties galore, with the
world’s best DJ’s, expositions and other
festivities. As the cherry on the
cream cake 15 famous fashion designers, DJ’s and
other creatives have
been asked to create a text, illustration or
photo that will be printed
on the front of a black T-shirt. All the profits
of the sale, that will
be done both in the club itself and on their
website, will go to the
King Leopold Institute for Tropical Medicine in
Antwerp, to
help fund their groundbreaking
AIDS-research, just as was done for
the
project ‘Designers Do Denim’ in 2001. As
the T-shirts will be sold on
the Café d’Anvers website too, people from all
over the world can order one or
more of these limited edition must-have pieces
–and support
AIDS-research in the process. By the time of
writing this newsletter,
names such as Dirk Bikkembergs, dEUS-singer Tom
Barman and DJ’s Sven Van
Hees and Buscemi have confirmed, with lots more
names to follow. Please
have a look at www.cafe-d-anvers.com regularly, to
make sure you can
order your favorite T-shirt(s) while stocks
last- and support
AIDS-research in the process.
Photo: design
by Dirk Bikkembergs for anti-aids T-shirt
project Café
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MODO PARCOURS
- DISCOVER BRUSSELS FASHION THE FUN
WAY
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The 7th Fashion
Designers' Trail will take place during the last
weekend of October 2004 in Brussels.
Over three days, you can discover
creations by designers, brand names and fashion
houses working in the capital, on display in
specially chosen locations throughout the city
centre: from cafés and galleries to shops and
apartments.
Comprising some 40 exhibits, this event
offers a unique opportunity for the curious, the
passionate and devotees to discover a new face
of Brussels, through its present and future
fashion design.
From October 29th – 31st 2004, from11 am
to 7
pm.
Nocturne: Friday evening until 10
pm.
Info: www.modobruxellae.be | |
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YOUNG DESIGNER OF THE
MONTH: DANIEL
HENRY
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Daniel
Henry graduated with high distinction at
l’Atelier de Création Textile de la Cambre in
Brussels and won the ‘Fondation Belge de la
Vocation’ prize while he was at it. For
four years he has worked as a freelance
designers for several fashion designers and
textile industries, before launcing his own
collection for winter
2004.
Henry
concentrates on fine knitwear: simple, timeless
and transformed through his reflected
work on different fabrics and
techniques.
For
his second collection (summer 2005) Daniel Henry
follows his story about circles and sunshine
stripes, using pure linen for these designs. The
colors (pearl white, jade green, raspberry red
and black) are knitted in solids, stripes and
random chine, or combinations thereof. His
item of the season is a knitted ‘guêpière’ made
out of cotton with a hint of Lycra, proposed as
a twin-set –or simply irresistible as a
mini-dress.
Info:
dan_hen@hotmail.com | |
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DO THE FUNKY
CHICKEN!
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Cosmopolitan Chicken Project: Red Jungle
Fowl-Genus XY
From July 11th until
Ocotber 10th in Z33 in
Hasselt
Some
years ago, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen
started to breed new varieties of chickens,
mixing international species that are a national
symbol in their own country. For instance, the
cuckoo of Mechelen in Flanders ,mixed with the
Poulet de Bresse from France would become the
Mechelen Bresse, presented for the first time in
museum Z33 in 1999. Result of this passion is
the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, some results
of which can still be seen in Hasselt until
October 10th.
An
important part of the project is the search for
the original chicken, also knows as Red Jungle
Fowl, because all other varieties grew from this
animal. Vanmechelen travels to Asia regularly to
observe this chicken in her natural habitat.
Where his quest will end, nobody knows. But you
can admire the benefits he reaped so far- and
there’s more to it than eggs, we promise you!
For instance, the artist invited children to
help him build a Golem, there was a banquet with
chicken specialties, instead of bells,
cocks will crow from the church tower in
Hasselt
to wake its inhabitants and on huge billboards
surrounding the cathedral you can see loads of
different chickens from alll over the world. If
you’re quick, you can still attend the lecture
artist Vanmechelen gives about his project on
September 21st, or listen to a philosopher, an
antropologist, an art historian and a biologist
talk about
chickens all afternoon long, on October 3th.
Riveting stuff.
Info:
www.limburg.be/z33
Next
month (september) the brandnew website of Z33
will go on-line as well, where you can
discover which exciting projects they have in
store for this autumn and for 2005.
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ITS#THREE WON BY
ANTWERP
STUDENT
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news) |
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 For
the 3th time running, from July 15-18 the
International Talent Support fashion contest
ITS# took place in Trieste/Italy, and this time
was wisely named
ITS#THREE.
In front of an international jury, with
members like fashion designers Raf Simons, Ennio
Capasa and Antonio Marras, creative director
Wilbert Das of main sponsor Diesel, Vogue Hommes
International editor-in-chief Richard
Buckley, fashion editor Hilary Alexander and
buyer Maria Luisa Poumaillou of the prestigious
Maria Luisa shops in Paris, the 23 finalists,
coming from fashion schools all over the world,
put their best feet ànd creations
forward.
Belgium always does well in this contest
and this year was no different, as the
Collection of the Year (worth 13.000 euros to
create a new collection) was won by Demna
Gvasalia, a student at the fashion department of
the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
Demna is only starting the 3th year of his
studies this october and we say: way to go,
boy!
More info about the contest and all the
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ANTWERP
STUDENTS CREATE OBJECTS FOR LOUIS
VUITTON
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 Louis Vuitton is 150 years young and to celebrate
the occassion, the house asked fashion students
from the 2nd year of the Antwerp Academy to
design objects around the theme ‘travel’.
Five designs were chosen
and next october the final winner will be
selected. His or her design will be made in two
copies: one for the ModeMuseum and one for the
new Louis Vuitton shop in Antwerp.
So far, so good. What is
really remarkable, is that lovers of unique
and very limited edition LV objects will be able
to order one for themselves as well, through
special order in the Louis Vuitton shops
worldwide.
We love all five
designs, but one in particular strikes our
fancy: the umbrella with integrated flute
designed by Akiko Murata. Very useful in
Belgian weather- never again do you need to get
wet or bored!
Read more:
www.vuitton.com
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