Monthly Archives: October 2016

MOOI Festival

October 28, 2016 – 14:45

Art center Villanella and Belgian designer Bruno Pieters have joined forces to find out the future of fashion during the two-day MOOI Festival. All weekend long, MOOI Festival is offering the opportunity to educate the audience about fair fashion. Antwerp is known as sustainable fashion capital but what can designers learn from each other regarding […]

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Europeana Challenge 2016

October 25, 2016 – 16:26

Europeana Fashion is calling all developers, designers, makers, artists, educators and cultural heritage digital thinkers! They’re offering a share of €20.000 for the best idea(s) of how to creatively re-use Europeana and Europeana Fashion’s openly licensed fashion content in a digital product, service or business. Winner(s) will also benefit from promotion and additional non-financial business development […]

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Helmut Lang & The (a)typical Dress

October 24, 2016 – 14:01

In 2005, Austrian designer Helmut Lang resigned as creative director of his namesake label to focus on his new career as a fine artist. A few years later, he donated a large volume of his fashion archive to museums worldwide. MoMu was very pleased to welcome this enigmatic evening dress that is at once typical […]

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Rik Wouters & The Private Utopia has reached 12.000 visitors in its first month!

October 17, 2016 – 11:39

  Fantastic news! MoMu’s latest expo Rik Wouters & the Private Utopia has reached 12.000 visitors in its first month! Deputy Province of Antwerp, Luk Lemmens: “We are celebrating the 100th death anniversary of the painter Rik Wouters. We are excited that this collaboration with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp has started this successfully!” […]

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MoMu X Limited Edition: Rug Dirk Van Saene

October 7, 2016 – 16:24

Each exhibition, MoMu devotes a room in the back of the exhibition area for a special collaboration with an artist or a designer. For our Rik Wouters exhibition, MoMu has teamed up with Limited Edition and Belgian Designer Dirk Van Saene for a unique piece of artwork. Dirk Van Saene, a fashion designer and member of […]

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MoMu+Friends in Paris

October 3, 2016 – 14:29

‘Qui porte quoi?’ or ‘who wears what?’ is the central question posed in Pallais Galliera’s current exhibition L’Anatomie d’une collection. On Saturday 1 October,  MoMu+Friends took its members on a day trip to Paris to see the exhibition, which features some of the highlights of the museum’s collection – and the stories behind them. The kind […]

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