November 29 December Fashion & Design. More info on belgianspirit.be. PMQ Studio S403

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1 Fashion & Design Pop-Up Store November 29 December a.knackfuss Delphine Dénéréaz Delphine Quirin Linadura Filles a Papa Frederik Delbart Jean-François D Or Krjst Atelier 365 Louise Kopij NoMoreTwist PMQ Studio S403 4th floor, staunton N35 Aberdeen Street Central, Hong Kong Opening hours: 1-8PM More info on belgianspirit.be

2 Belgian spirit BY nationa(a)l The Pop-Up Store will showcase the creations of the following designers from Wallonia-Brussels and enable them to test the market: a.knackfuss Delphine Dénéréaz delphinedenereaz.tumblr.com Delphine Quirin Linadura Filles a Papa Frederik Delbart Jean-François d Or Krjst Atelier Louise Kopij No More Twist In the framework of the Business of Design Week (BODW) 2015, Wallonia-Brussels Design Fashion and Wallonia-Brussels International collaborate with Nationa(a)l, a promotion and support platform for Belgian creative and cultural entrepreneurship, in order to set up a Pop-Up Store of Belgian Design and Fashion at PMQ, the new center dedicated to supporting creative entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. Scheduled from November 29 to December 6, this initiative will be included in detour, the off program of the BODW. What s new this year, dance will be among the disciplines promoted by Belgian Spirit as the Pop-Up Store will be opened with a performance of the Belgian dancer Gilles Polet. The Belgian Spirit project aims to strengthen the creative, cultural and economic ties between Belgian professionals in design and fashion, and their Asian counterparts in the long term. The brand was created in 2011 and is an initiative of the three Belgian Regions, which chose the Business of Design Week (BODW) in Hong Kong as their gateway to the Asian continent. BODW is a major annual event organized by the Hong Kong Design Center. Its purpose is to position the city as the nerve center of design in Asia. Besides its Forum, which is considered a reference for global design trends, BODW also has a detour section, a series of events that run parallel to BODW for the general public and professionals.

3 Delphine Dénéréaz Delphine Dénéréaz is a French textile designer, graduated from La Cambre. Based in Belgium for her studies, Delphine Dénéréaz declines her mixed and colorful world through the various textile items. By her products designed from memories. Delphine Dénéréaz, invites us to contemplate, reminisce and take time to escape. Her products are made in Belgium. delphinedenereaz.tumblr.com

4 filles A wpapa Launched in 2009 by Carol and Sarah Piron, the brand FILLES A PAPA has its roots in Liège. The sisters were soon joined by fashion photographer Gregory Derkenne who, beyond his eye for aesthetics, honed the label s ethos. The duocum-trio was quick to understand that fashion and style is a question of identity. FILLES A PAPA is an attitude, a deliberate rebellious streak and a clothing line in which the word contemporary reveals all its paradoxes and sharpness. Postmodern you might add, as this celebration of the modern young woman reflects the cynicism of our time. Behind the propriety of the name [meaning Daddy s girls ] lies sharp off-the-peg fashion that attracts boutiques, magazines and it-girls around the world thanks to its offbeat mood and a perfectly calibrated fit with the here and now. FILLES A PAPA offers a very distinctive but daringly different wardrobe. Emerging through its collections and images, which are produced each season like a manifesto, is the portrait of an heiress who hasn t forgotten to be a rebel or a rock star who s made her aggressiveness part of her charm. Fuse, combine, hybridize and surprise, because as philosopher Michel Serres has said, Nothing makes more sense than changing the meaning.

5 Frederik delbart Frederik Delbart Design Studio is an independent creative office located in Brussels and Hasselt (Belgium), active in product design, strategic design management, graphic design and consultancy. Inspired by textures and structures, the main purpose of the studio is creating honest and simple objects. By having a critical approach on the way objects are used and look, every step of the design process is deeply analysed and regarded with respect for the user, the manufacturer and the editor. As we live in a critical environmental situation, respect for nature is always present in the choice of materials, the assembly methods and a strict selection of suitable production plants. Passionate by raw and pure materials such as wood, glass, metal, porcelain and paper, the studio tries to find new limits for each by using those materials in a mix of respect for tradition and sense of innovation. Frederik Delbart believes that an open mind mixed with a large cultural background will form the way to a successful product. frederikdelbart.com

6 jean-françois d or Born in 1974, Jean-François D Or is now a flourishing designer, productive without being overly so, discrete but communicative at the same time. After obtaining his degree in industrial design from ENSAV La Cambre in 1998, this young man from Brussels began his career with lighting company Light, where he joined the design team and worked alongside Maarten Van Severen and Hans De Pelsmacker. There he was appointed product development manager. In 2003, he opened his own studio: in no time at all, his pieces caught the eye of prestigious companies in Belgium as well as France: Cinna, Domani, Interni Edition, Jongform, Ligne Roset, Reflect+, Toss B, Magnitude, Vervloet and many more put their trust in him. As well as lighting, he began to develop indoor and outdoor furniture as well as pieces made from a range of materials including glass and ceramics. Taking into account both companies requirements and users needs, his work is always tempered with a need for correctness. His designs are calm, simple and logical, standing out as much for their clarity and readability as for their intrinsic poetry. His pieces have been exhibited many times in Brussels, Milan, Paris, London, Stockholm...Voted Belgian designer of the year in 2013, Jean-François D Or continues on a steady path of flawless rigor.

7 atelier 365 Exposed to woodworking from an early age, Brussels-based Laura Greindl heads Atelier 365 a fully equipped carpentry shop in the heart of the Belgian capital, catering to the wider public with a rich programme of workshops and classes. Recently featured on the Brussels episode of Arte s Metropolis, the designer-in-herown-right launched Full Metal Furniture collection at North Modern Copenhagen, in August Exploring perfect simplicity, the new design channels currents of modernism and brutalism. Using traditional joinery techniques with contemporary astonishing details. Atelier365 was also instrumental in conceiving easily-assembled tables and chairs for the 2014 Nationa(a)l Expo Store furniture, produced with basic pine plywood. Walnut Bench is perhaps the designers best demonstration of Atelier365 woodworking sagesse. atelier365.be

8 a.knackfuss Born the 5th of December 1982 in Munich, Germany. After a training as a custom tailor, Alice Knackfuss graduated from the Fashion and Design Academy of Munich. During her studies she worked in the design departments of Kris van Assche and Ute Ploier. In 2009, she was a finalist at the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHYIN HYERES, as well as Trieste s ITS#EIGHT festival, winning the prestigious Diesel Award. In 2012 she started her own line a.knackfuss stands for a new image of femininity, offering forward-thinking and unusual, yet comfortable and wearable clothes for women, inspired by menswear: Clothes that do not restrict the wearer, but rather open possibilities in terms of shape and style. Reaching out to such diverse themes as unusual historical characters, marginalized cultures, and surreal fictions, a.knackfuss shapes and prints invoke a rich and imaginative study of anthropology and a curiousness for distant worlds. a.knackfuss is sold worldwide in department stores like H.Lorenzo, Los Angeles, Hunting and Collecting, Brussels and Twist, Hong Kong amongst others. In June 2015, she was one of the designers exposed at the BOZAR Museum in Brussels during the exhibition THE BELGIANS AN UNEXPECTED FASHION STORY, amongst designers like Ann Demeulemeester, A.F. Vandevorst and Dries van Noten.

9 Delphine Quirin Already as a child, hats stood out above everything else as a thing of wonder for Delphine Quirin. History of Art studies completed later in life at the University of Liège were she developed a clear preference for the talents of artists as diverse as Vermeer, De La Tour and Edward Hopper. After training as a fashion designer, Delphine set up her own design business in 1996 and started creating her first hats unique and tailor-made creations essentially to accompany formal dress. She then opened a shop in the historic centre of Liège and continued to create the framework for what would soon become an expression of her personality. She really played a trump card in Paris in 1999 when she drew attention to a mini-collection of gloves and scarves and of course hats created out of mohair and boiled wool. Delphine had found her niche! She is now creating regular collections, and presenting and selling them at large trade fairs in several European countries, as well as in the US and Japan. Delphine s hats are a subtle mix of colours and designs, reflecting our own contemporary mix of cultures and ideas. They are in tune with the world around them and each piece tells its own story. Delphine refuses to use industrial production methods. Her hats are made using traditional techniques by a small team of knitters, embroiderers and seamstresses, enabling her to oversee all the production stages, and at the same time, to take meticulous care in order to ensure that all of her knits are perfectly finished.

10 studio krjst Studio KRJST is an artistic consortium created in 2012 in order to merge a panel of creative skills and various experiences in several fields such as photography, drawing, print design and fashion design collection. Fashion designers by background, Erika and Justine have a very refined knowledge of textile materials and have a very fair ability to integrate their printed forms. To create their prints, the duo teamed up with photographer Sebastien Delhaye who, by his eye, reveals their equilibrium point. Studio KRJST draws its inspiration in the search for identity in a globalized society and the meeting of different cultures combining technology and craftsmanship. By realizing its exclusive Prints, Studio KRJST offers its expertise and know-how to many achievements in the world of fashion and design.

11 linadura LINADURA is a creative but also a shrewd manager who likes to broaden the horizons of its activity. With a holistic view of our society, the basic needs but also its excesses, he wished to develop intelligent products. A designer is not a creator but a person who designs tools, which meets needs. Make a product to follow a fashion does not interest me. I see in a circular way while, at the moment, we operate in a linear system doomed to failure because we have limited resources. He thus gives priority to sustainable and environmentally friendly materials: wood, aluminum, glass... Let s create less but better. What he proposes is to reduce the impact of production and increase our attention to more efficient and sustainable products. For this purpose, the multifunctional aspect plays a key role in designing many of its products.

12 Louise Kopij A Tiger for the Dragon. Handmade jewelry designer from Belgium, Louise Kopij creates a special limited line dedicated to the Middle Kingdom. From the style of the Forbidden City s traditional architecture to the precious combs by which court ladies adorned themselves, this is a tribute paid to the longest of humanity s civilizations through the choice of patterns, colors and symmetries. In the impermanence offered by the minute variations of handmade craftsmanship, towards harmony of colors and shapes, with all the respect, creativity, distance and humility that can be proposed by the vision of one culture on another. Perceived from a new angle, the heart and soul of Chinese aesthetics turns into a modern object manufactured in the secret know how of the crafting artist with rare materials: 14k gold and natural gemstones. Gold, red and handmade craftsmanship in the service of harmony, everything here is offering the finest looking Tiger to the Dragon.

13 nomoretwist The NoMoreTwist project is a place for collective research as well as a brand of textile objects. The design studio unites Marie Beguin, Anne de Prémare and Michèle Populer around a loom. The brand s DNA is textile. Each new production considers the thread itself, its thickness, texture, colour and, above all, the various ways of interlocking it. The collections are 100% made in Belgium, with a close collaboration between a weaver, and a sewing workshop. NoMoreTwist also offers its expertise in jacquard/ dobby weaving to editors for the development of custom innovative textiles design. nomoretwist.be

14 Gilles Polet Y-Space, i-dance Festival Nov 15 at 2.30 pm: Jack-in-the-Box, performance in Lik Wing Tong Study Hall, Kam Tin Nov 18 & Nov 20 from 10 to am: workshop lead by Gilles Polet in Y-theatre, Kwai Chung Nov 20 at 8 pm: Improvisation Land 60, participation in improvisation in Kwai Tsing Theatre, Kwai Chung Things Can Happen Nov 22 to Nov 25 from 2 to 6 pm: workshop Nov 25 at 8 pm: Jack-in-the-Box, performance in collaboration with Alice Rensy WING Platform for Performance Nov 26 at 8 pm: Jack-in-the-Box, performance Belgian Spirit by Nationa(a)l Pop-Up Store, PMQ Nov 28 at 7pm: Jack in the Box, performance in collaboration with Wallonie-Bruxelles Theatre/Danse Gilles Polet (1984) first trained as an actor at the Lemmensinsituut in Leuven before he moved to Leeds to study at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. He graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels in Gilles Polet has been part of the creation and performances of Shock by David Zambrano, Orgy of Tolerance and Prometheus- Landscape II by Jan Fabre, Bluff by Alexandra Bachzetsis and Longdistance Hotel, a theatre performance created online over a period of six months by six european artists and premiered in theater Maria Matos, Lisbon. Besides touring his own works Jack-in-the-Box and En-Dash, the latter created in collaboration with Liz Santoro, Gilles Polet continues to collaborate with former P.A.R.T.S. classmate Robin Jonsson. Gilles Polet is currently touring with Jan Fabre for the two reenactments This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen and The power of theatrical madness where he plays the role of the emperor.he is also currently performing in Mount Olympus, to glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24h performance by Troubleyn/ Jan Fabre. Gilles Polet also has a diploma from Balanced Body Pilates and was awarded Dance Web scholarship at Impulstanz in Through different workshops and performances Gilles Polet will explore the city of Hong Kong and share his ideas on performance in a dialogue with the local community from 11 until 30 November At the basis of Gilles Polet s research lays the question: How restrain can be a motor to move? The choreographer is interested to look at the possibilities of performance and movement within confined situations and how a socio-cultural context has an influence on artistic expression. In 2014 Gilles Polet started his research for Jack-in-the-Box in Iran where he participated in The Ultimate Festival organised by Invisible Centre for Contemporary Dance (ICCD). Contemporary dance being forbidden in Iran the country was an interesting starting point for his research. In Hong Kong the choreographer will continue his project in a totally different environment. While contemporary dance is far from forbidden in the city it has to deal with other restrictions specific to Hong Kong such as space and time.

15 About WBDM To incarnate the Belgian creativity in the design sector and to promote young dynamic companies which will be the unavoidable ones of tomorrow, such is the mission of Wallonia-Brussels Design Fashion (WBDM), the public agency for the promotion of design and fashion, which aims to improve the international visibility of the designers of Wallonia and Brussels. Contact Laure CAPITANI +32 (0) NATIONA(A)L Belgium has an enormous creative potential and the Belgian talents are acclaimed abroad for their «Belgian touch». If Belgian creatives are endowed with incredible artistic skills, few of them have the business and communication skills necessary to establish their own brand or spread it to the world. Through Nationa(a)l and its Pop- Up Stores, the organisers convey a new solution to support and help develop the Belgian qualitative creative and cultural economy. Contact Adeline d URSEL adeline@nationalstore.be +32 (0) nationalstore.be Nationa(a)l is an intelligent exhibiting and curating process and stands for first-rate and carefully selected content that comes to life. Nationa(a)l is a guarantee for quality in the cultural sector and works with the simple and pure aim of letting you discover it.