Bruno Pieters
Fashion Designer
Bruno Pieters is a fashion designer who was born in Belgium and trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Antwerp. He graduated with honours in 1999, and went on to become assistant designer for Martin Margiela, Josephus Thimister and Christian Lacroix haute couture. He also gained experience as a freelance designer for the fashion companies New York Industry in Milan, and Antonio Pernas in Madrid.
In 2001, Pieters launched his first collection at Paris couture week, and as such he was the first Antwerp Academy alumnus to make a couture collection. Entitled Part 1: Daywear. The Suit this collection was conceived as part of a trilogy: 1. Daywear, 2. Cocktail-wear, and 3. Evening-wear. The first collection, or Part 1, was conceived as a procession of suits, each varying in cut, fabric and colour. To emphasise the repetitive, linear approach, every silhouette was also presented in black.
In March 2002, Pieters launched his first ready-to-wear collection, offering a complete garderobe, focusing this time on the suit, the bomber jacket, the draped dress, and a special study of knitwear. His Spring/Summer 2004 collection, titled Under Construction, played with the possibility (or refutation) of the notion of deconstruction in fashion, and was accompanied by a short film of the same name which captured the making of the collection.
In 2005 Pieters was named creative director of the men’s line at the Belgian brand Delvaux. Two years later, in 2007, he became art director of HUGO by Hugo Boss. After showing his own line for Spring/Summer 2010, Pieters decided to take a step back from the fashion industry, leaving Hugo Boss and giving his own design archive to the MoMu fashion museum in Antwerp.
In 2012, the designer returned to fashion with Honest By Bruno Pieters, a label committed to sustainable and ethical practices, which ran for seven years until 2019.
Pieters has been honoured by the fashion industry multiple times across his career, winning a Swiss Textile Award in 2006, an ANDAM award from the Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent Foundation in 2007, at the ELLE Style Awards in 2008, and the H&M Conscious Designer Award in 2014.
Bruno Pieters is a fashion designer who was born in Belgium and trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Antwerp. He graduated with honours in 1999, and went on to become assistant designer for Martin Margiela, Josephus Thimister and Christian Lacroix haute couture. He also gained experience as a freelance designer for the fashion companies New York Industry in Milan, and Antonio Pernas in Madrid.
In 2001, Pieters launched his first collection at Paris couture week, and as such he was the first Antwerp Academy alumnus to make a couture collection. Entitled Part 1: Daywear. The Suit this collection was conceived as part of a trilogy: 1. Daywear, 2. Cocktail-wear, and 3. Evening-wear. The first collection, or Part 1, was conceived as a procession of suits, each varying in cut, fabric and colour. To emphasise the repetitive, linear approach, every silhouette was also presented in black.
In March 2002, Pieters launched his first ready-to-wear collection, offering a complete garderobe, focusing this time on the suit, the bomber jacket, the draped dress, and a special study of knitwear. His Spring/Summer 2004 collection, titled Under Construction, played with the possibility (or refutation) of the notion of deconstruction in fashion, and was accompanied by a short film of the same name which captured the making of the collection.
In 2005 Pieters was named creative director of the men’s line at the Belgian brand Delvaux. Two years later, in 2007, he became art director of HUGO by Hugo Boss. After showing his own line for Spring/Summer 2010, Pieters decided to take a step back from the fashion industry, leaving Hugo Boss and giving his own design archive to the MoMu fashion museum in Antwerp.
In 2012, the designer returned to fashion with Honest By Bruno Pieters, a label committed to sustainable and ethical practices, which ran for seven years until 2019.
Pieters has been honoured by the fashion industry multiple times across his career, winning a Swiss Textile Award in 2006, an ANDAM award from the Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent Foundation in 2007, at the ELLE Style Awards in 2008, and the H&M Conscious Designer Award in 2014.
