ARTE ANTWERP

Antwerp-based clothing brand Arte Antwerp is a premium menswear brand with a streetwear soul. Influenced by music, design and architecture, founder and creative director Bertony da Silva tells a visual story through his collection and aims to provide a contemporary yet timeless aesthetic vision; experimental yet understated. Quality is a key factor in Arte Antwerp's designs. The choice of premium fabric is paired with a strong yet minimalist aesthetic, resulting in what da Silva calls "powerful simplicity." Conceived as a bridge between visionary communities, Arte Antwerp moves and connects across boundaries. A strikingly modern sophistication is showcased while a contemporary urban edge characterizes the collection. We see elegant and classic cuts combined with an unconventional, lowbrow twist that creates an exciting and new contradiction. Arte Antwerp's inspiration comes from changing cityscapes, underground culture, graphic design, photography, and architecture. The result can be described as evolved and elevated streetwear, in line with the corresponding international wave of emerging raw sartorial talents influenced by millennial subculture. It centers the soul of craftsmanship and serves as a counterbalance to the precision of technology. New textures take center stage, emphasizing the physicality of the collections. They want to acknowledge the imperfection of humankind through the prism of contemporary silhouettes. In 2009, Arte Antwerp's first creation was an experimental T-shirt capsule collection that combined different art forms into garments, shaping a distinctly hybridized vision from day one. Arte Antwerp has matured into a successful creative house that has proven its relevance by translating artistic and current concepts into ready-to-wear collections.