Antwerp Fashion Week and the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts showrooms — FFGR Belgium provides private chauffeur for fashion buyers, editors, and collectors visiting the city's designer circuit.
Antwerp has a specific place in European fashion history that no other Belgian city has replicated. The Antwerp Six — Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Bikkembergs, Marina Yee, and Dirk Van Saene — graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1980–81 and collectively changed the direction of European fashion in the decade that followed. Their shared vision of deconstructed garment, unconventional material, and narrative dressing was the counter-position to the Milan–Paris axis that dominated the industry, and it remains the foundation of Antwerp's fashion identity today.
For fashion buyers, editors, and collectors visiting Antwerp from Brussels, London, Paris, or internationally, FFGR Belgium provides the transport element of a showroom circuit. Antwerp is 45 minutes from Brussels by private vehicle on the E19 — close enough for a day trip, with sufficient density of relevant addresses to fill a full professional day.
The showroom circuit for a fashion professional typically covers: Dries Van Noten (flagship at Nationalestraat 16 — the most architecturally significant fashion retail space in Belgium, housed in a former department store), Ann Demeulemeester (Verlatstraat), the MoMu (Mode Museum Antwerp — the best fashion archive in Belgium, housed in the same building as the Royal Academy on Nationalestraat), and the contemporary designer cluster in the Meir and Kammenstraat area.
For buyers attending Antwerp Fashion Week proper (twice-yearly graduate collections at the Royal Academy), FFGR Belgium coordinates transfer, registration, and post-show dinner reservations. The Academy's graduate collection show is among the most significant new talent scouts in European fashion — attended by buyers from Barneys, Lane Crawford, Opening Ceremony, and equivalent stores.
FFGR Belgium also coordinates private appointments at designers' archives and ateliers for collectors. Several Antwerp designers maintain ateliers that are not accessible to standard retail clients — private viewings are arranged through our fashion concierge team with advance notice. Recommended vehicle for Antwerp fashion day: Bentley Flying Spur (for four — the standard fashion team) or Ghost (for a single principal with the scale of arrival the visit merits).