Keyword Antwerp - The SPIN OFF

Accessories brand Kipling – founded in Antwerp in 1987 and acquired by VF Corporation in 2004 – has updated its look and sharpened its vision, a project that began in 2017.

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Photo: Stijn Nachtergaele

Retail strategy

Get ideas and inspirations to create experience in your store

One thing has been clear for years: the fashion retail trade must change and there is more to this than just launching an online shop. To be attractive retail has to renew itself. Tips and ideas for concepts for renewal can be found at Nightingale, the experimental concept agency. We talked to CEO & founder Stijn Nachtergaele.

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Stephan Schneider in his denim jacket featuring a 3D pattern designed by himself

Photo: Joachim Mueller Ruchholtz

Interview

Fashion Talk with Stephan Schneider, Designer

Germany does have fashion talent, although Stephan Schneider runs his eponymous brand from Antwerp for more than twenty years now. In context of our GERMAN ISSUE, the designer tells us why trends are unimportant and what is missing in the world of fashion.

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Retailer to Watch

Naïri Robert, We Are Labels: “We are constantly on the lookout for new brands”

By the end of 2016, Dutch multi-brand retailer We Are Labels opened up their first foreign outpost in Antwerp, Belgium. We spoke to their head of buying, Naïri Robert, on finding inspiration and new labels, ‘90s sportswear and Jay-Z.

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Collection

honest by launches sports collection

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Retailer to Watch

How Collective Space's owners sell clothes

Collective Space has transitioned from well-established distribution agency to Scandi-flavored indie retailer with its own small-scale production of locally made pieces. Annemarie Remoundos explained on how they sell clothes.

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Photo: L. Molina

Retail

PME Legend stretches out the cargo pilot allure by debuting first own store in Germany

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Expansion

Woolrich Europe bets on expansion in Belgium

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Retailer to watch

Haven’s Filip Van Moerkercke on why indie retailers need to take risks

Fashion tourists approaching Haven from afar – perhaps having just stepped out of Dries Van Noten’s store up the road – will assume they’ve stumbled upon a newly sprung avant garde concept shop. On closer inspection, they’ll discover that the bright, modernist space is in fact a surf shop, albeit one with a decidedly fashion-y edge. Filip Van Moerkercke, one of Haven’s four co-founders, sheds light on the shop’s unique identity.

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