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When Belgian fashion first strutted onto the international catwalks in the early '80s, Antwerp took the credit — and rightly so. It was graduates of that city's fashion school — Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walder van Beirendonck, Dirk van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, a.k.a. the 404 Not Found

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Antwerp Six — who were forging a distinctive deconstructionist style, a world away from Belgium's moules-frites-and-cherry-beer reputation.

But today it's Brussels — and its Quartier Dansaert — that's à la mode. At 74 Rue Antoine Dansaert is Stijl — the shop that began the revolution, tel:...

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