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Belgian designer Tom Van Der Borght is speaking to me from Berlin where, some 15 hours prior, he showed his Autumn/Winter 2021 menswear collection (“Seven Ways To Be TVDB / Act 3: A Hopeful Parade”) as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. “It’s always nice the morning after the show and you get reactions,” he chirrups down the phone. “It’s a moment I enjoy a lot actually.” The 42-year-old designer is right to feel upbeat. Mounted in an audience-free show space at the German capit...

Tom Van Der Borght says his creations are only finished when he cannot add anything more. The looks in the Belgian designer’s opening show of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin did this idea justice: Elaborate psychedelic outfits including head pieces and garments made with macramé and plastic strips, brightly colored overalls, and glittered faces told the story of a hopeful, more inclusive idea of fashion.  The collection is part of a bigger artistic vision called “7 ways to be TVDB...