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{{Short description|Group of Belgian fashion designers}}
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The '''Antwerp Six''' are a group of [[fashion designer]]s who trained at [[Antwerp]]'s [[Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen|Royal Academy of Fine Arts]] between 1980&ndash;1981 under [[Linda Loppa]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/fashion/a-rare-reunion-for-the-antwerp-six.html?_r=0|title=A Rare Reunion for the 'Antwerp Six'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 June 2013|last1=Menkes|first1=Suzy}}</ref> The press began referring to them as a group beginning in about 1990 after the group in 1986 drove in a van from Belgium to present at a London tradeshow and unexpectedly made an impression.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2015-09-09 |title=How six unknown Belgian designers took on the world |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/26241/1/how-the-antwerp-six-took-on-the-world |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref>

==Members==
*[[Walter Van Beirendonck]]
*[[Ann Demeulemeester]]
*[[Dries Van Noten]]
* Dirk Van Saene
*[[Dirk Bikkembergs]]
*Marina Yee

==History==
The [[fashion]] collective presented a distinct, radical vision for [[fashion]] during the 1980s that established Antwerp as a notable location for fashion design. The breakthrough occurred in 1986 as the group rented a truck and set out for the [[London Fashion Week]] with their collections. The reporters couldn't pronounce their names so began collectively referring to them as the Antwerp Six.<ref name=":0" />

[[Martin Margiela]], another Belgian contemporary, was not actually part of the group that showed in [[London]], although he is often mistakenly described as one of the Antwerp Six because he also emerged from the Antwerp scene immediately before the "Antwerp six" came to being. He subsequently moved to [[Paris]], initially working for [[Jean Paul Gaultier]] and then opening his own label.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://visit.antwerpen.be/en/fashion Fashion in Antwerp] from the Antwerp tourism office
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/fashion/a-rare-reunion-for-the-antwerp-six.html?_r=0 A Rare Reunion for the ‘Antwerp Six’- NYT JUNE 17, 2013]
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[[Category:Belgian fashion designers|Antwerp Six]]
[[Category:1980s fashion|Antwerp Six]]
[[Category:Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) alumni]]


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