The world of designer Jan-Jan Van Essche is one often taken for bohemian. Cerebral perhaps. Yet for those that know, his clothes are exacting and refined. Mathematical in their construction, and magical in their elegance, their materiality is firmly of this world.
Van Essche graduated from the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 and set up his label in 2010 from Atelier Solarshop, the Antwerp boutique he runs with his partner, Pietro Celestina. A demi-retrospective based on his S/S 2025 collection is now on view at MoMu, The Fashion Museum in Antwerp. It is ‘the story at the point of where we are now,’ he says.
