OC's Belgian Designers Take on Minnie Mouse

What does Minnie Mouse have to do with fashion? A muse for many designers, the cartoon character has inspired collections and catwalks from Paris to New York. Transcending all trends, her iconic silhouette and familiar bows and polka dots will never go out of style. This spring, your I Love BELGIUM team partnered with Disney to ask five young graduates from Belgian fashion schools––LA CAMBRE in Brussels and the ROYAL ACADEMY in Antwerp––to create their own contemporary visions of the fashion icon.

OC-ers DORIANE VAN OVEREEM, MINJU KIM, KRJST, and EMMANUELLE LEBAS, as well as Belgian designer DAMIEN RAVN, created designs that they unveiled last week at MOMU, the renowned fashion museum in Antwerp. The project was a result of months of hard work and collaboration between the designers, your I Love Belgium team, Isabelle from the Walt Disney Company (and beauty and food blog NAILS & CUPCAKES), and curator, fashion consultant, and professor at La Cambre Didier Vervaeren. Didier created a visually impressive installation on which the mannequin dolls were mounted: five giant letters M-I-N-N-I-E featuring the trademark polka dots.

It’s fantastic to see a project come together and that’s why we want to end with one of Walt Disney’s famous quotes: “If you can dream it, you can do it." That’s exactly what we did with Maison Minnie Mouse.

Through April 20, 2014

MoMu
Nationalestraat 28,
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
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