Fashion blast from the past
Because six months is too fleeting an amount of time to see good fashion disappear into the depths of consignment shops, designer Ann Demeulemeester has decided to re-release her archives in a line called "Collection Blanche."
Demeulemeester is a Paris-based Belgian designer who is referred to as one of the Antwerp Six, an influential and radical group of designers from the 1980s who attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp for their fashion training. Demeulemeester's clothes are highly distinctive, with asymmetrical hems, swaths of hard leather mixed with soft chiffon and a stringent monochromatic black-and-white palette.