PERSONAL FACTS | RECENT ACTIVITIES | INSPIRATION | EXHIBITIONS | CURATOR PROJECTS | COOPERATIONS | PUBLICATIONS |
• Born: 04.02.57, Brecht, Belgium
• Studies: Fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp
• First breakthrough: British Designer Show / London in 1987 as part of ‘The Antwerp Six’
(with Dirk Van Saene, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester and Marina Yee).
• Since 1983 collections under the label Walter Van Beirendonck
• HEAD FASHION-DEPARTMENT ROYAL ACADEMY ANTWERP • Designer collection Walter Van Beirendonck • 1999-until 2004: æstheticterrorists® by walter • 1999-untill 2002: Walter Van Beirendonck • Since 1985 is Walter teaching in the fashion-department from the Royal Academy of • In 1998 opened Walter Van Beirendonck ,'Walter' , a multilabel store,with annex the
• Childrens Collection ZULUPAPUWA for JBC
W:A.R. WALTER ABOUT RIGHTS - Autumn/Winter 2020-2021
WITBLITZ - Spring Summer 2020
WILD IS THE WIND - Spring Summer 2019
WORLDS OF SUN AND MOON - Autumn/Winter 2018-2019
OWLS WHISPER - Spring Summer 2018
ZWART - Autumn/Winter 2017-2018
WHY IS A RAVEN LIKE A WRITING-DESK?- Spring Summer 2017
WOEST - Autumn/Winter 2016-2017
Electric eye - Spring Summer 2016
Explicit Beauty - Autumn/Winter 2015-2016
WHAMBAM! - Spring/Summer 2015
Crossed Crocodiles Growl - Autumn/Winter 2014-2015
Home Sweet Home - Summer 2014
Shut your eyes to see - Autumn/Winter 2013-2014
Silent Secrets- Summer 2013
Lust Never Sleeps- Autumn/Winter2012-2013
Cloud #9 - Spring/Summer 2012
Hand on Heart - Autumn/Winter 2011-2012
Read My Skin - Summer 2011
Take a W-ride - Autumn/Winter 2010-2011
Wonde® - Spring/Summer 2010
Glow - Autumn/Winter 2009-2010
eXplicit - Spring/Summer 2009
SKIN KING - Autumn/Winter 2008-2009
SEXCLOWN - Spring/Summer 2008
STOP TERRORISING OUR WORLD – Autumn/Winter 2006-2007
RELICS FROM THE FUTURE - Spring/Summer 2006
WEIRD - Autumn/Winter 2005-2006
SUPERNATURAL - Spring/Summer 2005
CLOUDY STARS - Autumn/Winter 2004-2005
FUTUREDAY - Spring/Summer 2004
PIXYDUST - Autumn/winter 2003-2004
RESPECT RETHINK REACT - Spring/Summer 2003
FLY OR VANISH - Autumn/Winter 2002-2003
BODY:XtensionXfashion - Spring/Summer 2002
REVOLUTION - Autumn/Winter 2001-2002
STARSHIP EARTH - Spring/Summer 2001
DISSECTIONS - Autumn/Winter 2000-2001
GENDER? - Spring/Summer 2000
NO REFERENCES - Autumn/Winter 1999-2000
Arts-Antwerp/Belgium
'window'-gallery, St.Antoniusstraat 12 - Antwerp/Belgium
• Between I993 and 1999:designer of W.&L.T./Wild and Lethal Trash
Last collection designed by Walter was: Hi Sci Fi: Spring/Summer 1999
•••top Since his early collections, Walter has been inspired for his designs Walter Van Beirendonck is considered to be one of the main trend-setters His designs are very recognisable by either strong graphics The red thread throughout his collections is his sense of humour,
by art, music and literature, all mixed with ethnic and nature influences.
in men’s fashion by the professional press.
or innovating cuts and unexpected colour combinations .
sex with an eye-wink and his concern about ‘safe sex'.
His continous statements about the fashion-world,earth,nature, contempora
and society are collected in prints and slogans.
Often 'double bottomed'!
Always in a complete unconventional context.
Since 1983 carries every collection a well-defined name.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
•••top Walter works besides the collections,regurarely on projects:
• Designing costumes for theater, ballet and film,curating expositions,designing objects,
think-thank for commercial projects and products,image-making for pop-groups,
illustrating books,designing commercial collections...
• Walter is buyer for the 'Walter'-store and co-curater for the 'Window'-gallery.
• Due to Walter's intrest in 'Cyber'-technology,W.&L.T. was the first fashionlabel,which
launched a full-CD-rom and Website, showing besides the collections, information and self-designed games.
EXHIBITIONS |
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Momu Antwerp / Belgium Exposition : 'Happy Birthday Dear Academy' - 2013/2014 |
RMIT Design Hub / Melbourne Australia Exposition : 'Dream The World Awake' - 2013 |
Momu Antwerp / Belgium Exposition : 'Dream The World Awake' - 2011/2012 |
Selfridges London / UK Participation-exposition : Selfridges / Judith Clark - 2011 |
Galeri Peithner-Lichtenfels Vienna /Austria Participation-exposition : Anti Depressiva - 2011 |
Benaki Museum Athens / Greece Participation-exposition : ARRRHG! Monsters in Fashion - 2011 |
Song Song Vienna/Austria Exposition : 'Paradise Pleasure Productions' - 2010 |
Zand Eindhoven / Netherlands Participation-Exposition : 'Glass Works' - 2010 |
Momu Antwerp / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Stephen Jones & the Accent of Fashion' - 2010 |
Art Brussels Participation-Exposition : 'Triple X - Wonde® Gallery - 2010 |
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam / Netherlands Participation-Exposition : 'The art of Fashion - Installing Allusions' - 2009 |
Galerie Polaris Paris / France Participation-Exposition : '2357' - 2009 |
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / Netherlands Participation-Exposition : 'De ideale man' - 2008 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York / USA Participation-Exposition : 'Superheroes, Fashion and Fantasy' - 2008 |
Modemuseum Hasselt / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Ten dans gevraagd' - 2008 |
Nationaal glasmuseum Leerdam, in Fort Asperen / Netherlands Participation-Exposition : 'De ideale man' - 2008 |
Oude Gevangenis Hasselt / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Dichter op de huid' - 2008 |
Science Gallery Dublin / Ireland Participation-Exposition : 'Technothreads, What fashion did next' - 2008 |
Victoria and Albert Museum London / UK Participation-Exposition : 'Fashion V' - 2008 |
Benaki Museum Athens / Greece Participation-Exposition : RRRIPP!!, paper fashion - 2007 |
Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology New York / USA Participation-Exposition : 'Exotism' - 2007 |
Speelgoed museum Mechelen / Belgium Participation-Exposition : Speelgoed van... - 2007 |
Vlaam Parlement, de loketten Brussels / Belgium Participation-Exposition : '6+ Antwerpse Mode - 2007 |
MoMu Antwerp / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'De MoMu Collectie - Selectie II' - 2006 |
3. Biennale Berlin Germany Video Installation - 2004 |
Lille / France Dreamcube Installation - European Cultural Capital - 2004 |
MoMu Antwerp / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Malign Muses, when fashion turns back' exhibition - 2004 |
Musée de design et d'arts appliques contemporains Lausanne / Swiss Participation-Exposition : 'Body Extentions' - 2004 |
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / USA |
Forum - Fashion Nation Antwerp / Belgium Exposition : Ballet costumes designed for 'Not Strictly Rubens' - 2003 |
Lidewij Edelkoort Fort Asperen Netherlands Installation 'Weest steeds waakzaam' - Armour, the fortification of Man - expositions - 2003 |
MoMu Antwerp / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Patterns' - 2003 |
Musée de la Mode Paris / France Participation-Exposition : 'Trop' - 2003 |
Museum of Applied Arts Cologne / Germany Participation-Exposition : 'Koerprnah - Koerperfern' - 2003 |
Selfridges London / UK Participation : Body Vision Project, representing the 'Playful Body' - 2003 |
MoMu Antwerp / Belgium Participation-Exposition : 'Backstage' - 2002 |
National Design Museum New York / USA Participation-Exposition : 'Skin', curated by Cooper Hewit - 2002 |
Victoria & Albert Museum London / UK Participation-Exposition : 'Men in Skirts' - 2002 |
Bon Marché Rive Gauche Paris - France Participation-Exposition : 'Les collections d'art des couturiers et créateurs mode' - 2001 |
Kobe Fashion Museum Japan Participation-Exposition : 'Mohr: Colour and Space part 5 Sayoko'- 2001 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York / USA |
Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology New York / USA Participation-Exposition : 'Belgian Fashion Design : Antwerp Style' - 2001 |
Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam / Netherlands Participation-Exposition : 'Exorcism / Aesthetic Terrorism' - 2000 |
CCAC San Francisco / USA Participation-Exposition : 'Fast Forward' - 2000 |
Elena Levi Roma / Italy Participation-Exposition : Curated by Haim Steinbach - 2000 |
Galerie Enrico Navarra Paris / France Participation-Exposition : 'Le Corps Mutant' - 2000 |
Grimaldi Forum / Monaco Participation-Exposition : 'Air Air' exhibition - 2000 |
New York / USA Installation Summer 2001 'Starship Earth'- collection - 2000 |
Hasselt / Belgium Installation-Exposition : 'In de Ban van de Ring' - 1999 |
Kuenstlerhaus Vienna Austria Participation-Exposition : 'Fast Forward' - 1999 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tokyo/Japan Participation-Exposition and catalogue : 'Vision of the Body : Fashion Invisible Corset' with Video 'Fetish for Beauty' - 1999 |
Biennale di Firenze Italy |
Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam / Netherlands Walter Van Beirendonck/W.&L.T. exhibition in collaborationwith Marc Newson - 1998 |
Design Museum London / UK Participation-Exposition : 'Welcome Little Stranger / Men in Black 'Erotic Design' - 1997 |
Louvre Paris/France |
Copenhagen / Denmark |
Fashion Museum of Marseille / France |
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Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam / Netherlands Curator 'Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design' - 2007 |
Die Zeit Hamburg / Germany Art Director for a special fashion issue of 'Die Zeit' |
Phaidon Co-curator for the 'Fashion-Cream' Project (published - 2005) |
Selfridges London / UK Co-curator and designer of the windows for the Body Craze Festival - 2003 |
Sleazenation Anti-War poster - 2003 |
Fashion show in Moscow and St. Petersburg - 2002 |
Mode 2001 Landed-Geland Antwerp / Belgium Curator from 1999-2002 : Landed/Geland. Fashionproject conceived for the city of Antwerp 4 Exhibitions : '2 Women', 'Mutilate ?', 'The Radicals', 'Emotions' A,B, C Magazine, Exhibition - Catalogues, Merchandising - Project - 1999-2001 |
Realisation video: ‘Revolution’ - Autumn/Winter 2001-2002 |
Moët & Chandon ‘L’esprit du Siècle’-award for the Six of Antwerp - 2000 |
Awarded title ‘Cultural Ambassador of Flanders - 1999 |
Nomination Fashion Awards in New York - 1998 |
Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam / Netherlands Curator 'Kiss the future'. 'Shop-Installation'- Project with Marc Newson - 1998 |
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U2 / BONO Outfits for the 'Popmart' tour |
Mustang Creatin gthe W< - Universum |
Coca Cola co*ke - can for the 'co*ke light Fashion Edition Belgium' |
Eastpak Limited Edition by Walter Van Beirendonck |
Nissan Makeover of a Nissan Micra for the Brussels Automobile Fair. It was sold in favour of the Aids Research department at the Antwerp Tropical Institute. |
Theater Company Amsterdam Costumes for 'The massacre at Paris' (Director : Ivo Van Hove) |
Royal Ballet of Flanders Costumes for 'Not Strictly Rubens' |
Rei Kawakubo Cooperation for Landed 2001 / '2 Women' - Art Directin 5 shows of Comme des Garçons in Antwerp |
Marc Newson |
Orlan Cooperation for Catalogue 'Believe' |
Juergen Teller Cooperation for fashionshoots and publications |
Lidewij Edelkoort Cooperation on different levels |
Tropical Institute Antwerp department Aids research Fundraising through regular projects |
Liveball Vienna Benefit Fashion show 2000 / Vienna - Austria |
Amnesty International design of Amnesty International T-shirt on the occasion of their 40th Anniversary for fundraising |
Ronald Stoops Cooperation for photoshoots |
Inge Grognard Cooperation for Make-up - projects |
Mondino Cooperation for photoshoots and Portraits of Walter |
Bloomingdales Interactive Windows, New York Fashion Week: exclusive W.&L.T. shopwindows / New York - USA |
Starlab Consultant for intelligent clothing / I - Wear Project / Brussels - Belgium |
Woolmark Lecturer and guest of honour / Melbourne - FFashion Festival Australia |
Belgian Television VTM In cooperation with JBC, Art Director for Levenslijn - Fundraising Project 'I love Stars' |
Bang & Olufsen Lecture about colour for Bang & Olufsen, Denmark |
Paul Boudens Cooperation for Graphics, catalogues and magazines |
Vivienne Westwood Regular invitations as jury member - Hochschule der Bildenden Kuenste, Berlin |
Mr. Pearl Cooperation on the Mr. Pearl - Room - Landed/Geland 2001 |
Stephen Jones Cooperation in several 'Hat - Projects' |
the Avalanches- Australia |
Joan Morey Text-contribution to catalogue of Bad Boys-project/Bienale of Venice |
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Mutilate Book of Walter Van Beirendoncks first ten years of fashion, launched by Imschoot Uitgevers. Full colour reproductions and technical tour-de-force on the book manufacturer. Complete with post-it, stickers, cut-outs and pop-ups... - 1998 |
Believe Catalogue bringing together visions of Marc Newson, Orlan and Walter Van Beirendonck. Especially realised for the exhibition : 'Kiss the future' - 1998 |
Kiss the future CD-rom Due to Walter Van Beirendoncks interest in 'Cyber' - technology, W< was the first fashionlabel, which launched a full CD-rom and website, showing besides the collections, information and self-designed games |
Paradise Pleasure Productions CD-rom Due to Walter Van Beirendoncks interest in 'Cyber' - technology, W< was the first fashionlabel, which launched a full CD-rom and website, showing besides the collections, information and self-designed games |
Magazines and Newspaper Publications See www.waltervanbeirendonck.com -> publications |
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