Machine Gun

Walter van Beirendonck graduated in 1980 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp. Together with Ann Demeulemeester, Dries van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk van Saene, and Marina Yee formed the so-called " Antwerp Six.

Its individual collections are distinguished by bright colors in impossible combinations, the garments are fragmented and the individual elements are marked with scraps of cloth in a variety of shapes. The clothes resemble cubist works, have a simultaneous presence of degradation and bonding.

For her autumn-winter collection 2017/18, which included several ladies' models, Bayrendon uses the exaggeration method. Huge caps, huge headphones attached to clothes sculptured fabrics in the form of a racket, a deer, a stork, an elephant, and all sorts of "vehicles," in the form of machine guns.

His extravagant creations, the Belgian commented louboutinely. For him this is the normal vision of things. In a world like today, where tension is a basic ingredient of everyday life, Bayrendon creates as if someone has directed a gun in his forehead. It is this permanently tense state that gives rise to an explosion of forms, concepts, colors.