Starting in the late seventies with the Antwerp fashion designers' group of 6 - Dries van Noten, Dirk Birkkembergs, Dirk van Saene, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter van Beirendonck and Marina Yee - and Martin Margiela, Belgian Fashion Design has as a phenomenon increasingly gained international renown; and, season after season, an ever-growing number of Belgian fashion designers' collections have met with acclaim from the entire fashion world. Editors Luc Derycke and Sandra Van de Veire evocate in this lavishly documented and illustrated book the complex interactions that occur in the contemporary world of fashion, and specifically try to unravel the many forces that have been at work in shaping the success of the Belgian Fashion Design of today.