A.F. Vandevorst pearl draped one-bust dress with white burlap shoulder panel — spring 2011

Size: unkown (S – M)

Shoulder to shoulder: 40 cm

Waist: 38 cm

Diagonal measured from left shoulder to right hip (knot): 48 cm

Full length: 95 cm

Length skirt: 58 cm

 

Composition:

Unknown, looks like silk

The shoulder panels is tight woven linen or burlap

 

Details:

Pearl dress with pink undertone

One bust is left open

Twisted and draped at the hip

A white woven shoulder panel at the top

Triangular cut-out at the back with open back

Structured shoulders with shoulder caps

Hidden back zipper in the skirt

Worn on the spring 2011 runway (look 30)

The model passport tag went missing

 

Condition: 3/5

Very good condition, only worn once on the runway but faint stripes at the bottom of the hem.

Faint visibility due to the shiny fabric, the stripes remain after drycleaning.

 

*PLEASE NOTE: the Fetish triangle bralette is not inluded*

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Description

About A.F. Vandevorst

A.F. Vandevorst is a Belgian label created in 1997 by the couple Filip Arickx and An Vandevorst.

 

In 1987, both An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx met on their first day as students at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Instantly they felt like they matched, both on a personal and a creative level.

 

After graduating, An Vandevorst went to work for Maison Martin Margiela and became the first assistant of Dries Van Noten later on. Filip Arickx completed his obligatory military service, worked as a freelance stylist afterwards and went to work for Dirk Bikkembergs.

 

Vandevorst and Arickx united in 1997 to create their label A.F. Vandevorst. This was a time when the fashion world was eagerly awaiting a second wave of talent to follow in the footsteps of the famous ‘Antwerp Six’:  Ann Demeulemeester,Walter van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee.Arickx and Vandevorst remember their first collection — shown in Paris for fall 1998— as being overflowing, perhaps overly so, with ideas.

Nonetheless, Dries Van Noten supported the couple with sales and distribution.

 

The A.F. Vandevorst aesthetic is marked by a combination of feminine draping and strong masculine tailoring. Filip and An look for inspiration to military and nurse uniforms, lingerie and fetish subculture. Appropriately, their footwear line, launched in 2003, is called Fetish.

 

A.F. Vandevorst also has a diffusion line, A Friend, selling pieces at more retail friendly prices.

 

They have been growing very slowly and recently gained momentum with their fall 2015 collection, which was nothing short of an art happening, with models wearing gasmasks and getting spraypainted by artist Joris Van de Moortel while walking the runway.

Additional information

Weight 0.9 kg
Womens size

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