Meryll Rogge

Meryl Rogge studied fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, during her third year, she began an internship with Marc Jacobs, who hired her immediately. She went on to design women’s collections for him for seven years. Rogge returned to Belgium in 2015 and began working for Dries Van Noten. Five years later, in 2020, she launched her own fashion house. Her first collections were enthusiastically received by the press and leading buyers. In 2022, Rogge was nominated for the LVMH Prize, and was named Designer of the Year at the Belgian Fashion Awards in 2024. Shortly afterwards, in 2025, she won the prestigious ANDAM Grand Prize. That same year, Rogge was appointed creative director at the fashion house Marni and also launched a second line with Sarah Allsop called B.B. Wallace, which is dedicated to knitwear.

Meryll Rogge’s designs are unique for the way in which the silhouettes combine the metamorphoses that we undergo throughout the day: moving from formal to exuberant (Spring-Summer 2022), or from cold to warm environments (Spring-Summer 2024). This transformation is the result of a continuous process of deconstruction and reconstruction.

Rogge is partly inspired by her (childhood) memories but also by the distant past. In her work, she mixes references to bygone, old-world grandeur with punk influences and elements from the 1990s and Y2K.

For her debut winter collection, The Last Days of Disco (2020-21), Rogge drew inspiration from the work of photographers Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, as well as from New York nightlife in the early 1980s. Recurring elements in the collection included luxurious fabrics in fresh colours, broad shoulders, eye-catching and glossy finishes, and elegant, body-skimming cuts.

For the Autumn-Winter collection 2023-24, The Holiday Album, Meryll Rogge looked to the typical Christmas portraits and end-of-year clichés of her own childhood. With a healthy dose of humour – such as the ubiquitous Christmas roses – she wove these nostalgic references throughout her designs.

Rogge also continues to play with old and new memories in her accessories. For the Spring-Summer collection 2026, she found a like-minded partner in Wouters & Hendrix. The jewellery house created silver collars, jewels with oversized pearls or shiny loops, and pieces in which you can store small photographs.

Rogge regularly reworks old coats, dresses and jeans into new silhouettes for her collections. For Meryll Rogge, ‘vintage’ symbolizes, above all, memories and stories. For the Autumn-Winter collection 2023-24, she deconstructed a sugar-pink satin vintage dress into a new design. Such techniques also reflect Rogge’s sustainable vision of fashion.

Meryll Rogge designs silhouettes for both men and women and enjoys playing with the classic menswear codes. At the same time, she remains faithful to the unique shapes of male and female bodies. What at first glance appears to be a pair of tracksuit bottoms is, in fact, an elegant pair of tuxedo trousers (Autumn-Winter 2021-22). A checked wool top with two flap pockets, meanwhile, evokes a men’s blazer (Autumn-Winter 2024-25).

Knitwear has an important place in Rogge’s universe. Her homely, traditional pieces may seem borrowed from grandma and grandpa, but they have been dissected and reinvented in her own distinctive way. To give knitting a timeless identity, she launched B.B. Wallace in 2025, together with knitwear specialist Sarah Allsopp.

Rogge’s designs are inspired by artists such as Nan Goldin, Laure Prouvost and Beni Bischof. She collaborated with Bischof on the Spring-Summer collection 2023, Made on Earth by Humans. The artist gave her access to his entire oeuvre and also painted several garments for the collection. Rogge and Bischof expanded on this collaboration when they co-created the DO NOTHING CLUB installation for MoMu.

Author: Anaïs Huyghe
Photo above: Sloan Laurits