MoMu Fashion & Sustainability Walk

During the MoMu Fashion & Sustainability Walk, participants are invited to explore the many facets of sustainability. Our MoMu guide brings new perspective to fashion and sustainability, illustrating their multiple layers on the basis of Antwerp’s fashion scene and history.

The walk not only takes its participants along the defining locations, designers and movements in the fashion city, but is also enhanced through unique photographic and video material from the MoMu Library archives, further stimulating fascination for fashion.

Although sustainability is a word that is used both appropriately and otherwise today, and sometimes even feels like a trend, the concept has been around for centuries. Sustainability is made up of many different facets and encompasses far more than we associate with it in our own time.

For example, reuse and recycling were a veritable boom during both world wars, not as a trend, but as immediate necessity. Long before the first climate marches, upcycling was also well established among fashion designers. The concepts inherent to sustainable practices have long been applied and are deeply woven into Antwerp’s fashion DNA, not as hype, but as a fundamental principle.

To map out this walk, MoMu sat down with Jasmien Wynants, sustainable fashion expert and co-author of Close The Loop – A Guide Towards a Circular Fashion Industry. She is a freelance sustainability coach for, among others, the Belgian fashion label, Xandres.