Fashion Talks is the most relevant conference about the fashion industry and how it really works and evolves, this way we give you a view behind the scenes of one of the most inspiring industries. At Fashion Talks you will find new perspectives, insights and valuable connections. But above all we want you to leave positively energized and full of gusto to take your fashion business to the next level.
2019 marks the 4th edition of Fashion Talks in Antwerp, the avant-garde capital of fashion. The fashion industry is fast paced and ever evolving. Time to stand still, come together to talk about the state of the industry and meet up to inspire each other. We, over at Flanders DC, will put together a sharp programme of ON STAGE and OFF STAGE activities for you. Sit back and listen to our key speakers on the main stage or create your own programme of key talks, break-out sessions and networking opportunities. End the night at the 3rd annual Belgian Fashion Awards ceremony where we put the spotlight on all the talent our country has to offer.
At Flanders DC we take pride in making our events extra-ordinary and memorable experiences.
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Raf Simons in conversation with Alexander Fury: The state of fashion today from a designer point of view.
RAF SIMONS:
PRIDE IN INDIVIDUALITY.
Fuelled by his love for both rebellious youth cultures and traditional menswear, Raf emerges in fashion halfway through the nineties, presenting a radically different image of masculinity. Fusing the energy and singularity of teenage subcultures with the sharpness and precision of classical sartorial craft, the look presented by Raf Simons is both inspired by and designed for confident outsiders.
From the first collection on, music, art, performance, images and words have a substantial role in the whole package, summing up, or rather clarifying the kind of world Raf Simons wants to project. Always at the core of his universe (and as essential as the clothes themselves) are attitudes, moods and statements about individuality and independence.
Raf Simons has been running his namesake label since 1995. He has also made his mark on fashion with his work for Jil Sander, Dior and Calvin Klein in the past years among other projects.
ALEXANDER FURY:
Alexander Fury is a fashion journalist, author and critic. He is the Fashion Features Director of AnOther magazine, and the Men's Critic of the Financial Times newspaper. In 2016, he was made the first Chief Fashion Correspondent at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, a position he held until 2018.
Prior to this, from 2013 to 2016 Fury was fashion editor of the Independent. He was the inaugural Men's Critic for American Vogue.com, covering the Winter 2016 and Spring 2017 menswear seasons. Fury was the first journalist to receive the Editorial Intelligence Award for Fashion Commentator of the Year 2014-15, and was named one of InStyle magazine’s 20 most powerful people in fashion in 2015. He is also a member of the BoF 500.
His first book Dior: Catwalk was published in June 2017. In 2018, Alexander Fury was the writer for the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier at the Design Museum, London, the first UK retrospective of the designer's work.
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