Lieve Van Gorp springâsummer 1995, autumnâwinter 1997â98, springâsummer 1997, autumnâwinter 1997â98, springâsummer 1998.
In 1987 Van Gorp left the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp with a degree in Fashion Design. After various jobs as a stylist for Belgian high street labels, in 1991 she launched her first collection of leather accessories, consisting of belts and bags. Only in March 1995 did she expand into a complete womenâs prĂȘt-Ă -porter collection. Soon after she opened her own shop in Antwerp and, in January 1997, launched a collection for men. During these busy years of development, she also took on a teaching post at her old school.Â
In March 1999 she presented her first catwalk show in Paris, for both her womenâs and her menâs collections. Her collection for men grows out of the concepts developed for the womenâs line. Elements are re-used, almost as an afterthought, which make the menâs collection seem to be a season âbehindâ.Â
Lieve Van Gorpâs collections blend icons of Catholicism with rock star cult. This mixture is carefully expressed in the âmerchandisingâ, which always accompanies her collections. Posters, pins with skulls, the letter âLâ, exemplify her universe. True to her statement âIn my dreams Iâm a rock star, but unfortunatly I canât singâ, Lieve Van Gorp mentions as sources of inspiration rock ânâ roll and country & western music, headstrong women like Madonna, Courtney Love, K.D. Lang, Patsy Cline, Skunk Anansie and Patricia Hearst, and men like Jesus Christ, Che Guevara, Willy De Ville and Elvis Presley.Â
Working with diversity within one creation is Lieve Van Gorpâs strength. Emotion and agression, softness and bondage, films versus real life, male and female and everything in-between, conservatism and avant-garde, tradition and innovation, leather, love and trust, Gothic rock and classicismâŠ, all these are parts of the Lieve Van Gorp puzzl
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