BEARDED, BALD,
AND BELGIAN

Walter Van Beirendonck Designs
Marvelously Weird Clothes

Click Here Vice: What is this you’re wearing?

Walter Van Beirendonck: It’s a nice twist on your usual palette.
Did something traumatic happen? Why the shift?
So do bright colors mean a bright mood and dark colors a darker disposition?
Do you mean “somber”?
You recently curated an exhibit of surrealist art. Do you like older art movements more than things happening today?
What’s your favorite McCarthy piece?
Spaghetti Man Tomato Head You modern artists can be a pretty dirty bunch—why is that?
Is it your intention to shock people?
Do you have an example of when it happened without you instigating it?
The burka is a personal favorite of mine!
Are you religious?
Like S&M maybe?
Do you see a connection between religion and sex?
I’ve been hearing good things about Dries Van Noten’s garden. Do you garden?
laughs And for building muscles.
Is that because you’re into buff guys?
Another of my personal favorites.
that Love Do you have a strict definition of who qualifies as a bear?
But you prefer bears?
How did these people react to being asked to model?
So it was still a bit underground?
Who shapes up your beard?
Is there a celebrity you would like to dress?
Robin Williams owns a man-burka?
I hear he’s one of the hairiest men alive. Maybe he could be in your next catwalk show.
I’m sure they’d come on their own, though.
“ ” will open in Paris in September. , a book chronicling Walter’s career, is available in Belgium on Uitgeverij Houtekiet.