MoMu Fashion & Sustainability Walk

A city walk across the Antwerp fashion scene on the many facets of sustainability.

Visitor information

  • Tickets

  • When

    Permanently
  • Duration

    1,5 hours
  • Languages

    Dutch & English
  • For whom

    Adults, Young adults
  • Practical information

    • Every day at 11 AM or 2 PM (due to a closing day in all Antwerp stores, the possibility to view showcases is more limited on Sundays)
    • Maximum 20 persons per guide
    • €165 per guide (including €25 administration costs)
  • To bring

    Ear- or headphones for audio guide (if desired)

During the MoMu Fashion & Sustainability Walk, participants are invited to explore the many facets of sustainability. Our MoMu guide brings new perspective to fashion and sustainability, illustrating their multiple layers on the basis of Antwerp’s fashion scene and history.

The walk not only takes its participants along the defining locations, designers and movements in the fashion city, but is also enhanced through unique photographic and video material from the MoMu Library archives, further stimulating fascination for fashion.

Although sustainability is a word that is used both appropriately and otherwise today, and sometimes even feels like a trend, the concept has been around for centuries. Sustainability is made up of many different facets and encompasses far more than we associate with it in our own time.

For example, reuse and recycling were a veritable boom during both world wars, not as a trend, but as immediate necessity. Long before the first climate marches, upcycling was also well established among fashion designers. The concepts inherent to sustainable practices have long been applied and are deeply woven into Antwerp’s fashion DNA, not as hype, but as a fundamental principle.

Highly recommended, even for those who are well versed in this subject, because the tour shows you how sustainability ties into the Antwerp fashion scene.

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    Dries Luyten
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    Dries Luyten
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    Dries Luyten

To map out this walk, MoMu sat down with Jasmien Wynants, sustainable fashion expert and co-author of Close The Loop – A Guide Towards a Circular Fashion Industry. She is a freelance sustainability coach for, among others, the Belgian fashion label, Xandres.

This walk does not show where you can shop ecologically, or which designers and labels are sustainable. Instead, we want you to see how the principles of sustainability are everywhere.

Jasmien Wynants

Questions

Do you have a question about this guided visit? Get in touch.