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>
Arte Antwerp combines graphic streetwear with knitwear, outerwear and relaxed tailoring shaped by art and architecture. The Printemps placement offers a physical way to judge fabric and proportion beyond the label’s imagery.
Best for Bertony Da Silva's graphic knits and relaxed Antwerp streetwear tailoring
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.
Belgian designer's flagship — dark romanticism, impeccable tailoring, and the aesthetic that defined Antwerp Six. The store design is as beautiful as the clothes.
Best for Dark-romantic tailoring from the designer who defined the Antwerp Six aesthetic
CLOSED's Brussels branch at Rue Dansaert 16 represents the German denim and casualwear brand, not a closure marker. The shop is associated with the house's denim, casual tailoring and knitwear.
Best for Quality denim and casual wear from this German brand's Brussels flagship
Ghent and Antwerp studios cutting made-to-measure suits and wedding tailoring — fittings measured in patience, two-piece suits from about €990, and official tailor to the Royal Belgian Football Association.
Best for Wedding suits and relaxed made-to-measure tailoring.
<p>Atelier ACÀN is Belgian tailoring at conversational volume — a made-to-measure house with its flagship on Kortrijksepoortstraat in Ghent and a second atelier in Antwerp, cutting suits for men who want craft without ceremony. The style is deliberately contemporary: Scandinavian minimalism with what the house calls French nonchalance — sharp shoulders, calm colors, fits that are never tight and never loose, as happy over a T-shirt as a tie.</p><p>The process is classically bespoke in structure: consultation, cloth selection from Italian and British mills — Loro Piana and Zegna sit at the top of the book — precise measurement, then fittings until the suit disappears onto the body. Wedding suits are the house's signature commission, built months ahead around fabric, cut and the day itself; business tailoring runs alongside.</p><p>ACÀN represents the register of the atlas below the great maisons: the young regional atelier doing honest bespoke work at accessible prices, where the customer is measured over coffee rather than intimidated over marble. Ghent's tailoring address, in a country whose fashion schools taught the world — the craft practiced plainly, by appointment or by walking in.</p>
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