Everyone Thinks Parisians Rule Fashion. Everyone Is Wrong. (opens in new tab)

<p><img src=" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></p><p>In the 1980s, a group of designers and graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium — Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Marina Yee — came to be known as the Antwerp Six. And they changed fashion. What the Six shared wasn’t a single look, but rather an age group, an alma mater and an attitude. Because of them and their ideas, Belgium became known as the center of f...