Dear ChangeFashion,

Yesterday the Belgian fashion magazine Elle België/Belgique hosted the award ceremony Elle Style Awards 2010 in Brussels.

I went with Leonardo Van Dijl, a fashion journalist and very talented videographer who also made the making-of videos for MoMu on our Stephen Jones & The Accent of Fashion exhibition. You can see the videos via the MoMu Vimeo-page.

Leonardo just returned from the press days at the Antwerp PR-offices, loaded with goodie-bags, presents and gifts…

The award ceremony was hosted by the charming Nica Broucke and Béa Ercolini, the leading ladies of Elle België and Elle Belgique. There were several categories in which the editors of the magazine and the Elle België/Belgique readers could cast their vote on their favourite Belgian model, designer, blog, music artist and personality.

I was very happy to see that A.F. Vandevorst received the Best Belgian Designer Award. In 2010 they have presented not only a very strong A/W 2010-11 collection, but they also produced several sucessful projects such as ‘Aktion’, a series of guerillia pop-up stores in different Belgian cities (Antwerp, Knokke and currently in Ghent), and a collaboration for a capsule lingerie collection together with lingerie manufacturer Marie Jo L’Aventure.

The best blog was awarded to Stijn Verlinden and Tom Tack from ILoveBelgium.be, an interesting blog on art, design, fashion, and of course Belgium. Check it out via this link!