My name is Maxime Van de Wiele, I am an Anglo-Belgian menswear designer and graduated from Westminster in 2023 with first class honours.
Being an Anglo-Belgian creative, I have benefited from the wealthy Belgian culture and sensitivity and have been able to apply it in cahoots with British modernity
, providing delicate, precise and effective design work. Elegance and romance professing philosophy are what direct my work.
I'm a designer for those that aspire to feel content, attractive and complete. Queerness in the finest manner. I most of all aim to contribute to contemporary flânerie.
I believe my insatiable interest in historical research far beyond the realms of fashion and its subsequent interpretation into contextually substantiated narratives to fuel design is the biggest asset I can bring to any institution.
My graduate collection, Mimesis, explored the vulnerability of domesticity, through my Belgian heritage, from Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece ‘Jeanne Dielman’ to Baudelaire's diaries on his time in the Belgian capital, the flemish Singeries paintings, the philosophies of the situationist movement to the works of American artist Ross Bleckner. All carefully circling back to each other.
Having family background in department stores I have a keen eye for tailoring and surface design is pivotal to my work, I am therefore skilled in pattern cutting, sewing and a wide array of textile manipulations.
Whilst my values direct me to a passion between pencil and paper, hand to fabric; I am very proficient in the use of modern CAD technologies, Ai, Ps, Id in the production of design, print, embellishment mock-ups, technical drawings, spec sheets and lay plans.
I am a perfectionist, punctual, polite, kind and relentlessly reliable. I avidly take initiative and have been commended many times for my ethics in past employment experiences.
I am fluent in English, French and am actively restoring my Flemish/Dutch skills.
Fashion
Researcher
Product Development
Fashion Designer
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Clo3D
Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel...)
English
Native language
French
Native language
Dutch
Basic knowledge
UE working permit
Potentially open to relocate