Antwerp is Europe’s effortlessly cool design destination

One experimental alum, fashion designer Cedric Jacquemy, recently launched a groundbreaking concept called Bakermat, teaming up with Quinten Schaap on a venture that combines a fabric shop and virtual textile library powered by 3D prototyping. Expertly sourced fabrics include handmade silk from India and cloth produced by the same Italian artisans who weave the Pope’s …

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How Belgium became cool | CN Traveller

Address: Copyright Bookshop Antwerpen, Nationalestraat 28/A, 2000 Antwerpen, BelgiumWebsite: copyrightbookshop.be Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp A series of striking concrete boxes with bright pink doors announce your arrival at this edgy Antwerp gallery focused on established international and emerging contemporary artists. Address: Tim Van Laere Gallery, Jos Smolderenstraat 50, 2000 Antwerpen, BelgiumWebsite: timvanlaeregallery.com Pollen Atelier, …

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Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga reign has finally met its match: Leverkusen

Bayer Leverkusen players celebrate their second goal against Bayern Munich in Saturday’s top-of-the-Bundesliga clash. (Photo by ANP via Getty Images) In Germany, for decades, they’ve been known as Neverkusen, a team defined by “nearly,” a club resigned to “not quite.” They were not supposed to lead the uprising. As Bayern Munich reigned, strengthening its grip …

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Paris 2015 attacker Salah Abdeslam transferred from Belgium to France

Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Issued on: 07/02/2024 – 15:52 2 min Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in the French capital in …

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Geert Wilders is the EU’s worst nightmare – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. THE HAGUE — One line in Geert Wilders’ inflammatory pitch to Dutch voters will haunt Brussels more than any other: a referendum on leaving the EU.  Seven years after the British voted for Brexit, a so-called Nexit ballot was a core plank of the …

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Paris court charges two suspects over Brussels football knife attack

A Paris judge has charged two men suspected of links with the Islamist gunman who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels this month, French anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.  Issued on: 24/10/2023 – 09:11 1 min Abdesalem Lassoued, a radicalised 45-year-old Tunisian, shot dead the fans before a Belgium-Sweden international football match on …

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