He is a Belgian fashion designer. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1979, a year before the Avant-garde fashion collective the Antwerp Six. In the first 5 year he worked as a freelancer. Before showing his first collection, he worked for Jean Paul Gaultier. Between 1997 and 2003 he was the creative director of the Hermès women's line.
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