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.
Vintage & Antiques of Belgium
10 stores · curated ORBIS register
Belgian vintage shopping rewards the patient browser more than the impulsive one. Spul deals washed and ready-to-wear retro sportswear, jerseys, jackets, everyday vintage, all cleaned before it reaches the rail. PARDAF runs broad, family-run designer resale across womenswear, menswear, childrenswear. 't Apostelientje works handmade and antique lace, shawls, trims, lace objects as a Bruges specialist. Check seams and zippers before falling for any label inside.
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 ↗Greet Verbeke
Hidden GemBruges
Greet Verbeke deals in antiques, contemporary art and European collectibles from a Bruges gallery-shop. The stock mixes period furniture with modern works.
Best for Antiques and contemporary art
Visit official site ↗Bruges
Selected by Francoise is a curated second-hand and vintage clothing boutique in Bruges. It focuses on quality designer and classic pieces.
Best for Vintage and second-hand fashion
't Apostelientje
Hidden GemBalstraat 11, Bruges / Online
't Apostelientje is a Bruges specialist in handmade lace, with antique and contemporary pieces across a wide range of lace types, budgets and occasions.
Best for Handmade and antique lace, shawls, trims and lace objects
Balstraat runs through the St Anna quarter, on the quiet side of Bruges, and 't Apostelientje trades from it a few doors along from the Kantcentrum, the lace museum and school at number 16. The shop deals in handmade and antique lace only. That distinction carries real weight here: lace is the default Bruges souvenir, dozens of shops sell it, and a substantial share of what they sell is machine-made or imported, a caveat repeated often enough in accounts of the trade to read as the settled local condition rather than a complaint. Stock runs from antique pieces to contemporary work, framed and unframed, across a wide span of prices, and the shop sorts buyers through it. Obscurity here is a matter of a few hundred metres. The Markt and the Burg absorb the day-trip traffic almost entirely; St Anna is a residential pocket, and most visitors who reach it are walking to the lace museum or the Jerusalem Chapel. The shop's trade depends on the people who make that walk on purpose, which is a smaller number than the city's visitor figures suggest.
Visit official site ↗Brussels
Belgian designer vintage on Rue Dansaert — curated high-end second-hand, Chanel and Dior alongside the Belgians.
Best for Vintage fashion.
Visit official site ↗Manufacture Belge de Dentelles
Hidden GemGalerie de la Reine (Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert)
One of the few remaining specialist lace houses in central Brussels, Manufacture Belge de Dentelles sells handkerchiefs, table linen, collars and bobbin and needle lace from the Galerie de la Reine. It carries both antique pieces and newly made Belgian lace.
Best for Belgian bobbin and needle lace
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