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This beautifully illustrated book presents the permanent collection of Antwerp’s renowned fashion museum (MoMu), and offers an overview of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion from the 1970s to today. It includes photographs of the exhibitions which took place at the museum between 2002 and 2018, and is supplemented by a selection from the museum’s historical collection of clothing from the 18th and 19th centuries. AUTHOR: Kaat Debo has been the director of the Mode Museum, aka MoMu (Fashion Museum) in Antwerp since 2008. She is an expert on Belgian fashion and has curated over 20 exhibitions. SELLING POINTS: . The outstanding holdings of the Mode Museum, aka MoMu, Belgium’s most prestigious fashion collection, is presented for the first time in one book . Includes four decades of Belgian fashion, with work by Raf Simons, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk van Saene, Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, and Dirk Bikkembergs, among others 350 colour, 150 b/w illustrations