Fred and the Belgians
Iconic British fashion brand Fred Perry is celebrating its sixtieth year of existence. And what do you do when its your birthday? You invite a select group of friend to go wild! And that’s what Fred...
View ArticleThe Need For Belgian Knitwear
Since Winter has decided to come back, the I Love Belgium team was in need for some knitwear. Cashmere, lamb wool, mohair,…keep that cold coming! You can still score some great Belgian designer sales...
View ArticleRombaut
Creativity goes hand in hand with innovation. If you add up avant-garde shoe design you’ll get Rombaut, an all-natural men’s footwear concept from Belgian designer Mats Rombaut, who presented his...
View ArticleLuxury Chocolate Bars
Valentine is coming up. A stereotype gift is of course chocolat. Belgium is of course the number one chocolate country (sorry for our Swiss friends), so if you want to give chocolate to your...
View ArticleDries Van Noten by Frédéric Malle
Lovers of niche perfumes certainly know Edition de Parfum Frédéric Malle. After years of working as a consultant to some of the best French and International perfume companies Frédéric Malle decided...
View ArticlePeter Philips’ Chanel Makeup Moments
This Monday was resignation day. Not only did the pope decide to quit his job, but also Belgian make-up artist Peter Philips decided to leave his position as global creative director for Chanel...
View ArticleWe Love SaintPaul
We love SaintPaul, we have few words for it. The color, the prints, the playfullness,… We discovered it in the beginning of I Love Belgium and just like our lil’ blog SaintPaul grew and evolved being...
View ArticleKnitted Psychedelica
Design Platform Limburg was so kind to invite the I Love Belgium design editor to judge a bunch of new creative talent for the Toegepast 18 competition. It was here that we discovered the work of...
View ArticleBelgium rules the fashion waves
If you have seen people in the streets of Paris with enormous eye bags a week ago, they must be fashion people exhausted of the fashion weeks they have been attending. No, not everyone’s last name is...
View ArticleLespagnard Swag
People who read our latest article about Belgian fashion will have noticed that there was someone missing from the list. We’re talking of course about Jean-Paul Lespagnard, one of our favorite young...
View ArticleDe Gris by Léa Peckre
Attentive followers of I Love Belgium will recognize Léa Peckre’s name immediately. She was part of our Fashion Young Bloods article. And Léa is a busy bee. Not only did she start her own collection,...
View ArticleBeastly Jewelry
Every I Love Belgium reader knows we like statement jewelry (I’m sure your remember our posts about IL by Isabelle Lenfant, Belgian statement necklaces and Mouton Collet) and we just discovered another...
View ArticleVII Sept-Bruxelles
We discovered VII Sept-Bruxelles through the Nationa(a)l Store, a pop-up project by two Belgian-lovers last year in December. A quirky pineapple-shape handbag caught our eye. What was it? Who was...
View ArticleThierry Boutemy
Finally we start seeing flowers everywhere in the street and on the fields so that’s why we dedicate this post to master florist Thierry Boutemy who just moved and opened a new shop in Brussels next...
View ArticleFoodgasm Photography
Belgians love their food. I still have to meet the first person who visited Belgium who told me he had bad food. So quality is there but how to present that quality in a creative way is another...
View ArticleLouise Leconte
Fashion students immediately starting their own collection immediately after graduating can be considered crazy or very courageous, but if you have such a strong concept as Louise Leconte, it’s very...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Face
Over the last years Belgium provided the fashion world with some stunning faces! Names like Hannelore Knuts, Anouck Lepere, Kim Peers, Delphine Bafort, An Oost and Elise Crombez were a quick pick for...
View ArticleYannick De Witte
Yes we have a weakness for accessories but there’s just so much talent in Belgium, it’s hard not to talk about it. New discovery is Yannick De Witte, an Antwerp based jewelry designer. We discovered...
View ArticleHaustier
Sometimes we become very happy when we discover new Belgian collections and creations, even so, when Lodewijk Joye sent us his new project Haustier. Lodewijk studied at the College of Science &...
View ArticleKRJST atelier visit
Nothing is more interesting than to look into a designer’s head. But since brain surgery is not our forte, we’ll settle for atelier visits. Mood boards, fabric samples, sketches, flee market finds,… a...
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