Walter Van Beirendonck

Walter Van Beirendonck ( born February 4, 1957 in Brecht in the Flanders region in Belgium ) is a Belgian fashion designer.

Life

Van Beirendonck completed his studies in 1980 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from. He belongs to the group of the Antwerp Six, belong to the artist Dirk van Saene, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee ( All Graduation year 1981) and Dirk Bikkembergs (born 1982).

Since 1983 Van Beirendonck designs his own fashion collections, which are characterized by unusual color combinations, influences by the folk art of different nations and graphic expression. In the years 1993-1999 the German manufacturer Jean Mustang had a license agreement with the designer. In 1997 he equipped the participants of the tour of the musical group U2 for their PopMart tour. He is a designer of Italian shoe brand W6YZ.

1999 Van Beirendonck was appointed Honorary Cultural Ambassador of Flanders. In the following years he worked at a variety of fashion projects, participated in exhibitions and operated his own Window Gallery in Antwerp. In 2011 he curated the A Magazine curated by, which is published by Artimo.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2011: Group exhibition Future Garden, Arts Bunker - forum for contemporary art, Nuremberg
• 2011: Walter Van Beirendonck - Dream the World, MDMV, Musée de la Mode d' Anvers, Antwerp
• 2011: ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion, Benaki Museum, Athens
• 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

Publications

• Thimo te Duits: Believe: Walter van Beirendonck and 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.