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My goal to the exhibition, Dream the World Awake, and that's a little bit of vision I have on fashion.
And at one side, I want to let people dream and create dreams
but I also let ... want them to think about our society, about our world, about our person, about everything in fact
and that's this two things I wanted to bring together.
It was a huge job to choose all the collection, the pieces for the exhibition because one way or another, I have,
from the beginning I kept all my pieces so I have a huge archive
and which is sometimes very difficult to handle because it's stocked everywhere, in all different places and boxes.
So when the question came to make this retrospective, I ...
the first thing I was doing was really to make an overview of everything I have
and then I started to recreate the original looks from how they were presented in the original collections.
And I really found a way to recreate all the looks with the original shoes, I'm also trying to suggest the makeup and
suggesting also, eventually, like hairdos; so it's really recreated like it was presented in the original collection.
For me, Antwerp is not that adventurous but I know that people which are coming to Antwerp do enjoy it a lot
and I think that it's a very small city, it's very easy to wander around and to visit things.
But I think that you have to start with the historical side of Antwerp which is a beautiful cathedral, the incredible Rubens' paintings;
there is a lot of history in this city which is very nice, I think, if you come surely from Australia (chuckling) to enjoy all this history.
And then you easily get into the fashion museum and the shopping. There are a lot of shops and very nice shops, I think also.
And then the food is the next thing; there's incredible food, there are great chocolates and fantastic cakes.
Do come also to my shop, that's also a place to visit and then you're already, I think, yeah, you're rather busy (chuckling).