MoMu Highlights: The Antwerp Six

During this visit you will discover everything that MoMu has to offer! A MoMu guide will take you through the temporary exhibition The Antwerp Six and provide an insight into the MoMu Collection, which includes masterpieces by Martin Margiela, A.F.Vandevorst, Ann Demeulemeester, Raf Simons, … Afterwards you will pay a short visit to the exhibition on the ground floor.

In 2026, The Fashion Museum Antwerp (MoMu) will celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the international breakthrough of the Antwerp Six. This will be the first time that a major exhibition is devoted to these six iconic fashion designers. ​

The exhibition highlights the unique trajectory that connects these six exceptional designers. It began with their study at the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and resulted in six highly influential solo careers. In 1986, Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee put Antwerp on the fashion map when they each presented their own collections at the British Designer Show in London. This led to their international breakthrough and established the City of Antwerp as a capital of fashion. Their unique designs continue to influence international fashion today.

MoMu’s collection presentation looks back at four decades of Belgian fashion, complemented by a selection from the museum’s historical collection. The exhibition gives an overview of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion, based on the themes that characterise the distinctive nature of the MoMu Collection.

With LOOKS, LOOKS, LOOKS, MoMu offers an insight into the practice of the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. The exhibition shows silhouettes of student work alongside graphic material such as sketchbooks and drawings, revealing the process behind the finished result.