Wolstraat 24, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
A physical Antwerp showroom for vintage clothing, accessories and home objects, alongside the house's handmade studio pieces.
Best for One-of-a-kind vintage, designer finds and small handmade accessories.
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The Fashion Houses & Boutiques in Antwerp Issue
ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN ANTWERP16 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Fashion Houses & Boutiques in Antwerp
16 stores · curated ORBIS register
Atelier Munro fits made-to-measure menswear through appointments with style advisers, also offering ready-to-wear clothing and an online service. Dirk Bikkembergs began his label with military-inspired boots after graduating from Antwerp's Royal Academy, later developing its sporting fashion identity. Essentiel Antwerp takes bold prints and colour into contemporary Belgian womenswear, adding another visual approach to this Antwerp selection.
Visit official site ↗Antwerp / Belgium / Online
Antwerp Six poet in black and ivory — gothic romanticism cut androgynous since 1985, feathers and poetry included. Member of the Antwerp Six; the group's 1986 London Fashion Week showcase brought international acclaim.
Best for Poetic black tailoring and androgynous gothic romance.
<p>Ann Demeulemeester was one of the Antwerp Six — the graduates of the city's Royal Academy who drove a rented truck to London in 1986 and rewrote fashion's map of Europe. She founded her label in 1985 with her husband, the photographer Patrick Robyn, and began showing in Paris in 1992; from the first collection her territory was fixed: black and white, poetry and rebellion, tailoring that falls like a dropped chord.</p><p>Her muse and long correspondence was Patti Smith — the album-cover androgyny of Horses runs through the house like a watermark. Demeulemeester's cutting made romance structural: jackets sliding off one shoulder, trailing straps and half-fastened closures, leather softened until it drapes, feathers as punctuation. Gothic is the shorthand; the truer word is devotional.</p><p>The founder stepped away from her house in 2013; in 2020 it was acquired by Claudio Antonioli — the Milanese retailer whose own store shares this window — and since 2023 Stefano Gallici has designed with a young poet's reverence for the archive. The signature endures untranslated: black as a language, worn open at the throat.</p>
Visit official site ↗Antwerp / Online
Atelier Munro creates made-to-measure and ready-to-wear menswear, from suits, jackets, trousers and shirts to knitwear and accessories, fitting clients through personal style advisors across an international appointment network and online. The Amsterdam-founded house uses seasonal looks to demonstrate how its made-to-measure tailoring adapts to warmer weather, weddings, business dressing and more relaxed everyday wardrobes without making one season the brand’s permanent identity.
Best for Made-to-Measure Menswear, Tailoring
Visit official site ↗Belgium
Graduated in 1982 from Antwerp's Royal Academy as one of the 'Antwerp Six.' Bikkembergs launched his own label in 1986 with military-inspired boots — laced through the heel — and became the first designer to stage a runway show inside a football stadium, Milan's San Siro, in 2001.
Best for Sporty futuristic
Dirk Bikkembergs graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1982 as part of the group later nicknamed the Antwerp Six, designers who trained together and went on to reshape late-20th-century fashion outside the traditional Paris and Milan centers. He launched his own label in 1986, opening with a men's shoe collection rather than clothing, built around rugged military-style boots — heavy leather construction with laces run through the heel rather than the front — deliberately at odds with the polished, lightweight Italian dress shoes dominant at the time. That shoe-first approach set the tone for a career spent fusing sportswear and tailoring: Bikkembergs became known for treating the aesthetics of football boots, training gear and locker-room culture as material for high fashion rather than keeping the two separate. That fusion reached a defining moment in June 2001, when he staged a runway show inside Milan's San Siro football stadium, becoming, by most industry accounts, the first designer to present a fashion show inside an active football venue. The brand went on to work directly with football clubs, including a design relationship with Inter Milan, cementing sport — and football specifically — as the label's recurring reference point rather than a one-off stunt.
Visit official site ↗Antwerp / Belgium / Online
One of the 'Antwerp Six' — poetic menswear and womenswear with print mastery, tactile luxury, and a singular creative vision. Now part of Puig.
Best for Poetic print-heavy luxury fashion.
Dries Van Noten was one of the Antwerp Six — the graduates of the city's Royal Academy who drove a van to London in 1986 and rewired fashion's map — and he became the movement's gardener-poet. From a first menswear collection sold to Barneys and Whitaker's, he built a house on prints layered like sediment: Indian embroidery over English tailoring, photographic florals on military parkas, colors mixed the way painters mix them.
He did it without a single advertisement for over three decades, independent until Puig's 2018 investment, showing in Paris while cutting in Antwerp — the Modenatie headquarters above his own flagship. His runway spectacles (a mile-long banquet table, 500 guests; carpets of real marigolds) are collected on film the way the clothes are collected in closets.
Van Noten took his bow with the Spring 2025 menswear show; Julian Klausner now writes the house's next chapters. The signature survives the succession: fashion's most literate maximalism, prints with a library behind them.
Visit official site ↗Nationalestraat 16 / Online
Het Modepaleis is Dries Van Noten's Antwerp home, bringing womenswear, menswear, shoes, bags, scarves, fragrance, beauty and accessories together at the Nationalestraat flagship.
Best for Dries Van Noten fashion, accessories, fragrance and beauty
Antwerp / Belgium / Online
Essentiel Antwerp is a clothing label associated with graphic and floral prints combined with playful proportions and contrasting colours. Its founders began with a T-shirt collection in 1999 before developing a broader fashion range. The Antwerp womenswear shop on Huidevettersstraat offers a physical setting for comparing the label's colours and shapes beyond its online catalogue.
Best for Colourful womenswear and prints in Antwerp
Essentiel Antwerp began with a T-shirt collection launched in 1999 by Esfan Eghtessadi and Inge Onsea. The Belgian label later expanded that starting point into a full wardrobe. Print and colour remain central to its identity. Current categories range from dresses and shirts to trousers and denim as well as knitwear. Jackets and jumpsuits broaden the silhouette, while accessories carry the same visual language into smaller pieces. Named seasonal collections and campaign material give each edit a particular palette rather than presenting the range as permanent basics. The brand also separates occasion dressing from its main catalogue and maintains a second-hand route, creating a distinct channel for pieces already in circulation. Those programmes show how the business has grown without losing the authorship established by its founders. A simple product launched the company; a broader system of prints, proportions and colour now connects many categories. Essentiel Antwerp's merchant story is consequently specific and traceable: two named founders, a 1999 T-shirt origin, and a Belgian wardrobe label that treats expressive combinations as a continuing design method.
Visit official site ↗Central antwerp / Belgium
House of Bones is a rock, punk and gothic fashion boutique on Kammenstraat in Antwerp, stocking clothing, band merch and jewelry from labels like Banned, Queen Kerosin and Brandit. Beyond the storefront, the brand runs an online shop and a members' community for swapping festival tickets and band merch.
Best for Alternative fashion, rock & gothic apparel, jewelry
Visit official site ↗Nationalestraat 95, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp boutique for pre-loved avant-garde fashion, including early Antwerp Six work, runway samples and Japanese designers.
Best for Archive Belgian fashion and hard-to-find pre-owned avant-garde pieces.
Visit official site ↗MoMu Shop
Hidden GemMoMu Fashion Museum / Online
MoMu's museum shop turns Antwerp fashion scholarship into objects: exhibition catalogues, Antwerp Six stationery and totes, city guides, jewelry and limited collaborations. Much of the assortment is exclusive to the physical shop, making this a destination-only retailer rather than an online or internationally shipping house.
Best for Exhibition catalogues, Antwerp Six accessories and limited collaborations
Visit official site ↗Gemeentestraat 8, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium
Three-generation Antwerp family shop, founded in 1973, for secondhand designer fashion and accessories for women, men and children.
Best for Broad, family-run designer resale across womenswear, menswear and childrenswear.
Visit official site ↗Mechelsesteenweg 101-103, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp secondhand boutique for recent, high-quality branded clothing and accessories, with selected vintage-condition luxury accessories.
Best for Current-season designer resale and carefully graded pre-loved accessories.
Visit official site ↗Pelikaanstraat 3/1270, Antwerp Central Station, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium
Vintage fashion shop inside Antwerp Central Station, selecting retro clothing from the 1970s through the 2000s.
Best for Washed and ready-to-wear retro sportswear, jerseys, jackets and everyday vintage.
Visit official site ↗Reyndersstraat 29, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
State of 8 sells luxury vintage and pre-owned clothing, jewellery and shoes in Antwerp. Private styling appointments help clients navigate one-off sizes, condition and a changing designer inventory.
Best for Approachable luxury resale with in-person styling.
Visit official site ↗Verso
Hidden GemLange Gasthuisstraat, Antwerp (former bank building)
Verso occupies a grand former bank building in central Antwerp, trading as a luxury multi-brand boutique. The racks carry Prada, Gucci, Dior, Celine, Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta.
Best for Luxury designer fashion
Visit official site ↗Kleine Pieter Potstraat 19, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp archive-fashion store with deep holdings in Belgian, Japanese and international designer collections from past seasons.
Best for Raf Simons, Margiela, Dries Van Noten and Japanese designer archive pieces.
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