Kaat Debo

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Kaat Debo is director of the Antwerp Fashion Museum MoMu. Debo studied literature and philosophy in Antwerp and Berlin, and joined MoMu in 2001 as a curator working on the museum’s exhibition policy. From 2007 to 2008 she was editor-in-chief of A Magazine, and in 2009 she was appointed director of MoMu.

Kaat Debo is director of the Antwerp Fashion Museum MoMu. Debo studied literature and philosophy in Antwerp and Berlin, and joined MoMu in 2001 as a curator working on the museum’s exhibition policy. From 2007 to 2008 she was editor-in-chief of A Magazine, and in 2009 she was appointed director of MoMu.

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