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Essay on Ann Demeulemeester
Belgian-born Ann Demeulemeester studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. A master deconstructionist and legendary in cutting great pants, she was part of the group of young designers who emerged from Belgium during the 1980s.
It was during the 1990s that her designs truly crystallized and came into their own. A technical master in her art and craft, Ann Demeulemeester is an avant-garde designer who is a true modernist. Her designs are not extremely austere, and “adjust" to the figure of the wearer, making truly versatile.
Cutting edge fashion fused with being wearable is Ann Demeulemeester's strength and the reason for her commercial success. (http://www.fashionwindows.com/beauty/ann_demeulemeester/default.asp)
Paris. Educated at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, she lives in her native Belgium. She likes black and white colors, which are for her the "richest" ones, and finds multicolor design "empty". Prestigious "Journal du Textile" placed her production just behind Jean-Paul GAULTIER's and Issey MIYAKE's. Her creations, made in Belgium and Italy, are sold in hundred international stores. She wants to maintain a complete quality control and verifies shipping herself.
Before Parisian collections, Ann DEMEULEMEESTER, comes in French capital to select models and take their measurements.
Ann Demeulemeester's boutique, a vast, loft-like space on two floors, is worth the trip. "Everyone was expecting Le Corbusier, but this is not about modernism," the designer said. "This is a 19th century building in the middle of Antwerp, so we had to work with that."
In fact, the building originally housed a school for sailors and sits on a corner of the square called Leopold de Waelplaats, opposite the Museum of Fine Art. "For five years I knew I wanted a shop, but I'm somebody who never makes the Five-Year Plan," she confided, as she curled up on a wide white canvas couch on the second floor of the store....
