Belgium

Fashion

Dries Van Noten is quitting his brand

After four decades at the helm of his namesake label, the Belgian designer is stepping down this June

Fashion

Mar 19, 2024

Elliot Hoste

Fashion

The inclusive Belgian fashion label fighting back against ‘curvewashing’

Ester Manas is lighting up Paris Fashion Week with sexy, sensual collections designed for many bodies

Fashion

Jun 30, 2023

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Film & TV

Close film Lukas Dhont Léo Rémi Eden Dambrine Gustav De Wael

Dazed x MUBI Cinema Club highlight CLOSE on MUBI

The film's director Lukas Dhont speaks on his heart-wrenching, Oscar-nominated second film Close, which you can now stream on MUBI with 30 days free

Film & TV

Mar 01, 2023

Nick Chen

Film & TV

New Belgian drama Playground is like The Sopranos, but with children

Director Laura Wandel discusses her new film, which captures the claustrophobic terror of a being a kid at school

Film & TV

Apr 25, 2022

Nick Chen

Fashion

Martin Margiela secures official gallery representation

Martin Margiela has officially traded in fashion for fine art

‘The system became suffocating,’ the elusive designer said of the fashion world, as he secures formal gallery representation

Fashion

Oct 01, 2021

Felicity Martin

Art & Photography

Belgian doctors are prescribing museums and galleries for Covid stress

Take note, NHS!

Art & Photography

Sep 03, 2021

Felicity Martin

Film & TV

Patrick: an eccentric black comedy set in a Belgian nudist camp

Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants’ film debut follows a grieving handyman on a mission to find his prized hammer, unfolding in a nudist camp without sexualising the exposed flesh

Film & TV

Nov 20, 2020

Nick Chen

Music

Bershka

What went down at Woodie Smalls’ euphoric Bershka gig in Brussels

The ‘Pending’ rapper celebrated his merch collab drop with a rousing show

Music

Nov 08, 2019

Anna Cafolla

Music

Bershka

Hear a fiery playlist of tunes from blistering Belgian rapper Aly Bass

In celebration of her Bershka clothing collab and upcoming showcase gig, the Paris-based artist curates a dynamic, rap and trap-heavy mix

Music

Oct 03, 2019

Anna Cafolla

Fashion

Stoned America: at Raf Simons’ SS20 show, the kids were not okay

The Belgian designer’s SS20 collection just debuted at a sports hall on the outskirts of Paris, featuring drug motifs, logo lab coats, and a tribute to legendary Belgian record label R&S

Fashion

Jun 19, 2019

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Fashion

Martin Margiela outlines pressures of fashion’s fast pace in new letter

The legendary designer accepted a Belgian Fashion Award with a short letter outlining his gratitude, the pressure of the fast pace of fashion, and how social media has destroyed the ‘thrill of wait’

Fashion

Oct 12, 2018

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Politics

A man has been prosecuted for the first time under Belgium’s sexism law

He was convicted after verbally abusing a police officer

Politics

Mar 07, 2018

Sanjay Patel

Art & Photography

Poetic and spontaneous photographs of youth in Brussels

Lara Gasparotto’s images capture the sensation and the freedom of being young today

Art & Photography

Nov 06, 2017

Philomena Epps

Fashion

Margiela the Hermes Years exhibition archive

The untold story of Martin Margiela’s time at Hermès

The Belgian designer steered the French house from 1997 until 2003 – the curator of a new exhibition discusses his brilliant, misunderstood legacy there

Fashion

Mar 27, 2017

Emma Hope Allwood

Fashion