Exhibition : 20 dresses for Europe

The project "20 dresses for Europe" was first initiated in 2006 and follows the huge success the exhibition met in Tokyo, Beijing, Istanbul and Milan. This exhibition is an invitation to dialogue between to forms of Art which are rarely associated but also and overall between the cultures of the three countries which will be successively holding the presidency at the Council of European Union : Spain followed by Belgium and Hungary.

The Instituto Cervantes in Brussels, l'Asociación de Creadores de Moda de España, Wallonie-Bruxelles Design-Mode, Modo Bruxellae, Flanders Fashion Institute and Hungarian Cultural Institute have invited some talented fashion designers to wrap up the words of great writers from Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian litterature.

Belgian Fashion designers :
Michael Guerra for the poem La Nuit by Emile Verhaeren
Katrien Van Hecke for Het verdriet van België by Hugo Claus
José Enrique Oña Selfa for Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam by Amélie Nothomb
Anna Heylen for the poem Dertig by Stefan Hertmans

Where and when?

Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles
Grand-Place - 1000 Bruxelles
From February 3rd to April 4th 2010

Publication: 08/01/2010

Associated designers