Belgium Women Fashion Party Jewellery 12

Belgium Women Fashion Party Jewelry.

By Aamir mannan. 

The Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold and Don Juan of Austria.

Fashion Department

The Antwerp Six

By the 1960’s general opinion had stopped considering the “applied arts” to be of lesser value than the “traditional arts”.  In accordance with the spirit of the times, a number of new departments were added to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts: graphic design, photography, jewelry design, ceramic arts and Fashion design.

In the beginning of the eighties, the fashion world and the international media started to get interested in Antwerp fashion designers, especially in the famous “Antwerp Six” who all graduated from the Academy.