Obsessions

The obsessions of a very-obsessed designer, with never-ending variations, but deep-rooted principles through trends and decades. They depaint very rich and unique style.

I use them as belts, with more texture and depth.
Then it becomes a versatile sharp: scarf tubular cord, belt tubular cord, cuff tubular cord, neck tubular cord, tubular cord seam.
It’s not solely an ornement. It has a purpose. That’s what I always try to do.

I’ve always loved brown, this unloved color. All browns, like those used in Constant Permeke’s portraits of farmers. It reminds me of Belgium and its worker houses.

One of my obsessions is gathers. They give the garment a shape, some thickness and weight. They give structure. I wanted to do draping, but gathers are my version of draping, it’s more graphic. Sometimes I put a drawstring inside of them. It then becomes an adjustable gather, and the garment can be transformed: you create volume or you remove it.