Walter Van Beirendonck

Walter Van Beirendonck (Brecht, 4 February 1957) is a Belgian fashion designer. He graduated in 1980 from the Royal Arts Academy in Antwerp. Together withDirk Van Saene, Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee (graduated in 1981) and Dirk Bikkembergs (graduated in 1982) they became known as theAntwerp Six.

Since 1983, he issues his own collections. They are inspired by the visual arts, literature, nature and ethnic influences. His unusual color combinations and a strong graphic influence are characteristic for his collections.

Walter also designs for a children's collection called ZULUPAPUWA for JBC. His range of creative and artistic talents shines when it comes to children, as he constructed a reclining teddy bear chair that was close to thirty feet long incorporating a change room, so that he could display and sell his childrenswear. 

His work speaks of his passion for life. Often, his exhibits offer a message about his views on social issues. What is great, though, is that the displays are fun in nature. The message is important, but you can get someones attention without being too deep and morbid.

Sophisticated Prints

My graphic designer also produced some prints with a more sophisticated colour-way.

These colours were based on the current trends that she found through designers such as Marc Jacobs and Paul Smith

Mambo Graphics

Mambo. It's fresh, colourful, ever changing and sometimes rude. 

The founder of the label, Dare Jennings, commissions artists to do work to be reproduced on Mambo fabrics. The artists include a famous maker of ceramics and jewellery (Gerry Wedd), a pop star from the band Mental as Anything (Reg Mombassa) and a cartoonist (Matthew Martin). Their art features surreal suburban landscapes populated by vomiting dogs, horned bulls, boxy fibro houses and Australian insects such as Bogong moth

Their prints are iconic and very successful. Below are some examples of prints which I think are highly inspirational. They work very well as they represent the Mambo brand and can stand out in the crowd.

ANCA Gallery - My Favourite...

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London Men's Fahion Week

London Men's Fashion Week has produced exciting menswear pieces in 2012. Below are a selection which I have found inspiring and whom are doing great things for menswear. Digitally printed fabrics are a trend as well as contrasting colours and materials.

LONDON COLLECTIONS: Mens Fashion

Menswear in London has been going from strength to strength over the past few years and it is long overdue for the city to get a dedicated menswear weekend. Previously tacked on almost as an after thought to the Women's schedule and crammed into one single day, this season saw the three day-long London Collections eEn Lmake its debut. London has been long seen as a hot bed of talent, consistently producing forward-thinking pioneers. In the past these talents have had to eventually leave the city in order to further their career trajectory. The launch of LCM now allows them both the freedom and the profile to build their brand from the city they are based in, hopefully keeping them here and in turn placing London menswear on the same platform as Paris or Milan...

Minti

Minti is a childrenswear label that stocks in children’s boutiques all around Australia. Perpetually Five believes that this is the main competitor. Their clothes are fun, childlike and offer something different in the childrenswear market.

Colour

I looked at WGSN for some colourful inspiration and came across all these wonderful images!

Car Atlas by David T. Waller

Colourful mutant pop sculptures by New York artist, Joe Grillo.

Yayoi Kusama’s Look now, see forever exhibition at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art

C.P Company

The design and creation of C.P. Company clothing originates from their interest and research into military uniforms and work suits and more recently emphasis has fallen on the evolution of urban city wear. The main attraction of this type of clothing is the way in which function and wearability is combined with elegance and comfort.
In a way they are somewhat similar to Perpetually Five. Although, Perpetually Five does not design clothing for the evolution of urban city wear, they do create garments which have a function and wearability. For example the tent jacket.


Below are some of the more exciting designs:

http://www.cpcompany.co.uk/

Jean-Claude de Castelbajac

JCDC is not confined to the catwalks of haute couture and associates his name with the brand of sportswear and other media icons like Alyzee. He had the privilege to dress Pope John Paul II at XXIII World Youth Day in 1997. Jean-Claude de Castelbajac is expressed in all artistic fields: stylist, designer, writer, composer .. In addition to the appearance undeniably graphic styling, JCDC a strong attachment to the comic. Oriented collections this universe, with comic strip hero Tintin or Mickey.

His works are creative, pop-rock, playful, quality, and affordable clothing line for a new generation.

Like Perpetually Five he doesn't believe fashion should be taken seriously. His designs are fun yet sophisticated which is what direction Perpetually Five is going in.

Tent Jacket

I had an idea to create an outer shell jacket that can also be used for children to interact with. The idea was to have the jacket to turn into a tent, kind of like a mini kids retreat made from adults clothes. Below are some other examples which designers have come up with to create tent clothing or clothing you can interact with, in a completely different way.

Interactive Jumper

A part of my concept is to create graphics without using prints. Below is a fun example of how to do this. This is also a fun way for the consumer to interact with a garment.

Agi & Sam

Agi and Sam began the brand with the fundamental thought of designing for men. After years of countless menswear collections displaying either a fear to create something different or collections which push too far and never seeing the light of day they aim to sit firmly in the middle.

With a strong emphasis on entirely bespoke print and humor they believe that fashion should never be taken too seriously.

This fashion label is quite similar to Perpetually Five. They have a lot of colour and tailoring and do not stick to the norms of men's fashion. Their collections are fun and unique which is what Perpetually Five is all about.

http://www.agiandsam.com/frameset.html

Imagination

This image is one I have made to create a mood of what children see when they draw an image.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso has become my main source of inspiration for my design process. Picasso could make a would out of nothing. His creative process has non-monotonic variations - For example: Picasso takes ten sketches to achieve his desired outcome of a figure of a bull. However, he reveals no relation between each bull drawing and instead varies significantly creating what seems to be new sketches. This is a messy, inefficient even chaotic manner of constructing a creative product. Picasso did both naturalist representations and abstract, schematic, anti-figural renderings of the real image.

Childrens Imagination & Artist interpretation

The Monster Engine Project by Dave DeVries

This project is based on the idea of creating realistic paintings from children's drawings - sometimes artist just happen to get to one point where their imagination stops, but not children. All drawings are from children around 6 years old)