Company
of the Year 2025
— Arte Antwerp
In September 2024 Arte Antwerp opened the doors of its first international store in Paris. This milestone was marked by a campaign featuring legendary footballer Nicolas Anelka. Arte Antwerp mirrors a fusion of contemporary artistic expressions and subcultural tendencies. The directional aesthetic of Bertony Da Silva unveils a background in graphic design and an exploration of different art forms, ranging from modern architecture to music. What started in 2009 with an experimental capsule T-shirt collection matured into a cultivated creative house, proving its relevance by translating artistic and timely concepts into ready-to-wear collections. The brand recently announced a collaboration with Adidas.
— Essentiel Antwerp
Since its creation in 1999, the Essentiel Antwerp fashion brand grew based on its basic values: emotion, originality, luxury and passion. Essentiel Antwerp has almost 40 monobrand stores in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, including corners in renowned department stores such as KaDeWe in Berlin. In addition, Essentiel Antwerp is represented in more than 750 multi-brand stores and selected department stores, including Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Revolve and Anthropologie in the United States. In 2024 the brand celebrated its 25th anniversary, marking the occasion with an all-black collection (a rare move for the typically colorful label), as well as the release of a coffee table book.
— Bernadette
BERNADETTE is the Antwerp-based fashion label founded by mother-daughter duo Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter. Their collections – spanning ready-to-wear and homeware – embody a refined vision of modern luxury. The brand is distributed worldwide in almost 100 stores. In 2025, they held their first runway women’s show in Paris and launched the Bridal Fittingroom, a collection available for purchase worldwide.