Over the weekend, 14 masters students studying fashion at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts presented their final-year collections via a series of installations and a runway show. For the uninitiated, the Royal Academy is one of the few major, major fashion schools, nurturing everyone from the famed Antwerp 6 (Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, et al, and incidentally the subject of a major exhibition at the city’s excellent Momu fashion museum in early 2026) to Martin Margiela to more recently Demna.