Walter Van Beirendonck
Walter Van Beirendonck (born February 4, 1957 in Brecht in the Flanders region in Belgium ) is a Belgian fashion designer and founder of the fashion brand W< (also W. & L.T. , Short for Wild And Lethal Trash ).
Life
Van Beirendonck graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1980 . He belongs to the Antwerp Six group , which includes the artists Dirk van Saene , Dries Van Noten , Ann Demeulemeester , Marina Yee (all graduated in 1981) and Dirk Bikkembergs (born in 1982).
Van Beirendonck has been designing his own fashion collections since 1983, which are characterized by unusual color combinations, influences from folk art from different nations and graphic expressions. In the years from 1993 to 1999, the German jeans manufacturer Mustang had a license agreement with the designer. In 1997 he equipped the music group U2 for their PopMart tour . In the same year he equipped the band Erasure for their cowboy tour. He is the designer of the Italian shoe brand W6YZ .
In 1999 Van Beirendonck was made an honorary cultural ambassador for Flanders . In the following years he worked on various fashion projects, took part in exhibitions and ran his own window gallery in Antwerp. In 2001 he initiated the semi-annual fashion magazine A Magazine curated by , which is published by Artimo .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2015: Fashion & Mortality , Lentos Art Museum Linz , Linz, Austria.
- 2011: Joint exhibition Future Garden , Kunstbunker - forum for contemporary art , Nuremberg.
- 2011: Walter van Beirendonck - Dream the World Awake , MDMV , Musée de la Mode d'Anvers , Antwerp.
- 2011: ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion , Benaki Museum , Athens.
- 2010: NOT IN FASHION. Fashion and photography of the 90s , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- 2010: Paradise Pleasure Productions , Song Song, Vienna.
- 1998: Believe. Walter van Beirendonck and Wild and Lethal Trash , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam.
Museums with works by Van Beirendonck
- Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Publications
- Thimo te Duits: Believe: Walter van Beirendonck & Wild and Lethal Trash , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1998, ISBN 90-56621009 .
- Tom Blanks et al .: Walter van Beirendonck: Dream the World Awake . Uitgeverij Lannoo, Tielt, West Flanders, Belgium 2011, ISBN 978-90-209-6096-9 (nl.), In English: ISBN 978-90-209-6112-6 .
literature
- Thimo te Duits: Believe ... for the exhibition in Rotterdam 1998, Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-89322-445-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition details ::: MMK Frankfurt am Main. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 9, 2018 ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Van Beirendonck, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beirendonck, Walter van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brecht , Flanders , Belgium |