Yes, thanks for that article Shangpie, it's summing up a lot of what I've been annoyed with for a while now and grumble on about on here incessantly. I had come across that Instagram account previously when it was just being discovered (but I still refused to sign up) so it's interesting (but also predictable) that there's copycat accounts all around the world (but of all the Dutch cities, Utrecht 
), although I'm not slightly paranoid about being photographed without my knowledge 😱 As a generation Napster, I can't get to grips with substack (as paying for anything on the internet instantly makes me balk) how do you navigate it? I had a few newsletters that migrated there but the constant requests to sign up to paid subscriptions put me off and made me unsubscribe.
Onto Antwerp, the 2d-3d exhibition was a bit of a let down, interesting enough but it was so small. They just explored five designs and it was all crammed into a large-ish room with a lot of emphasis on 3D animation. I'm clueless as to why fashion is so gung ho about this as fashion still looks kind of shit in 3D animation (granted I'm comparing it to my own discipline who have been at the vanguard of it in design for much longer and requires you to move through it rather than for it to move so it's bound to be leaps ahead). Thankfully the other exhibitions were interesting, although they do really love being very abstract and conceptual, it really can't be all that accessible for people just wanting to see a fashion exhibit.
Ok, onto flat me, although pictures are generally terrible. At Dries van Noten I tried on lots of sort of evening dresses with printed draperies. I had seen them online a lot last year and loved the look of them but not the prices. Still didn't really like the prices of them at the sample sale. This was my favourite colour way but it just drowned me as a dress, I could sort of make it work as a top but at the asking price it felt a little bit like trying too hard to make it work. I had high hopes for the third pic as that's actually a top, it's just a flat panel sewn onto a sleeveless t-shirt so can be worn more casually over jeans and it was cheaper than all the others but the lilac colour was like death on me and the neckline just didn't sit right 
Ended up buying a mad scarf instead, not pictured (soz) but now looking at the pictures again, urgh, maybe I should have gotten the red dress to wear as a top 😑 here's hoping the next fabric sale at Dries will have the fabric left over 🤞
At Christian Wijnants I saw this lovely silk dress (shit photo, I'm holding it up as it was like a meter too long on me, it's more of a minimalist a line number with a roll neck) but it had a stain on the back and also some fit issues at the shoulder (I've had this issue there before, he designs for a long upper body but narrow shoulders, it's weird on me). But luckily I found the fabric (colour more accurate that picture) was available to buy so I got lots of that and will get something similar made, I already have a similar pattern made from summer which is sleeveless. I really am rather pleased I taught myself to sew as I'd have been really bummed leaving that dress behind otherwise.
Not pictured, I also picked up a cropped kimono sleeved chunky jumper which was a prototype from I Love Mr Mittens, I'll try and take a picture of it when I remember. And I have pictures from the exhibition if anyone's interested in those.
Also, the cult of Raf Simons has further confounded me and makes me want to do an anthropological study on them. Apparently people were in line there from 2am in the morning 
(they opened at 10). I also saw loads more commercial buyers, people flying in from all over the world (who all look the same), I fear it's all going a bit flat in the previously unknown Antwerp sample sales too <sobs>