Stijn De Boeck Profile at the Fashion Industry Network

About Stijn De Boeck - fashion designer from Belguim
In the year 2005 I was selected for the finals of the fashion contest Moda Mondo in Brussels. That year I was envolved with an art project on the metro/tram for the city in Gent. I designed and made the costumes. During that period I gave my first show for "petit riens" in Brussels. . My designs were shown togheter with a few big belgian designers like Christophe Coppens, Maison Delvaux, Gérald Watelet, Edouard Vermeulen.(natan) and many others. One piece of me was sold by Sotheby’s for the benefit of the poor. I gave a show in the museum of textile. The last two years we started an organisation for belgian emerging designers. I participated at three fashionshows.I also do the marketing and the pr of that small enterprice. At this moment there is an expo of my work in the fashionmuseum in Hasselt. I also gave a show there. A few weeks ago I gave a show in the International concress center in Gent..(togheter with young french/ belgian designers graduated of la cambre/ academy of Antwerp/Gent/ Amsterdam/ Maastricht. I gave an interview for the belgian commercial television. (seen at the news prime time) I've been contacted by a new azian fashionmagazine 'R magazine'.

I finished my masterdegree in art with big distingstion. Later I finished also the master years of grafical design.They asked me to start a doctorat in art. I developed a system to investigate old and contemporary art. I was a trainee art director with an marketing agency DVN in Gent. At the age of 22 I became art director. Beshides of my fashionshows, I also gave an expo of my artistic work. (silk screens).