Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
“Ann” by Beatrice Brandini
Florence celebrated the maison’s iconic style with a special project curated by Ann Demeulemeester.
Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
After the forced postponement due to a pandemic, last January, a special project dedicated to the extraordinary work of Ann Demeulemeester was staged at the Stazione Leopolda.
Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
She is a stylist from Antwerp, she has always worked and created out of the crowd, with great sensitivity, following her aesthetic that is recognizable and recognized all over the world.
Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
Her fashion is serious but not severe, made up of meticulous tailoring details. Her creations are characterized by a complex simplicity, which is always the most difficult thing to achieve.
Images of the exhibition at Stazione Leopolda: Ann Demeulemeester Guest of Honor Pitti Immagine Uomo 102
Her fashion is conceptual, experimental, but also elegant and glamorous. A poetic style with rock’n’roll “flashes”. Minimalist at a time when another type of aesthetic dominated, combining, in its collections, masculine elements in the feminine collections and vice versa, anticipating genderless by many decades.
Some pictures of Ann Demeulemeester’s past collections
Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1981, along with what will be defined as the “Antwerp Six” (Antwerp six, but also the “young savages”, according to the British press), a set of designers such as Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee, particularly good and influential.
Some pictures of Ann Demeulemeester’s past collections
Since then, the designer has worked as a freelancer for large international brands, until 1985, when she, together with her husband, photographer Patrick Robyn, founded her brand. Her first show in Paris was in 1992, immediately projecting her into the elite of international fashion.
Some pictures of Ann Demeulemeester’s past collections
Her iconic coats and long dresses, as well as her sleeveless vests. She has also treated knitwear with great skill, such as the “spider web” one copied a little by everyone.
Poetics by Ann Demeulemeester
In 2020 the brand was bought by Claudio Antonioli, an enlightened Milanese entrepreneur who takes over the brand with great respect for his past.
A recent image by Ann Demeulemeester
Good life to everyone!
Beatrice