Marie Adam-Leenaerdt

Founded in Brussels in 2022 by La Cambre graduate Marie Adam-Leenaerdt, the label takes its cues from the unremarkable: cocktail tables dressed in linen, conference room chairs, the furniture of ordinary life. Adam-Leenaerdt works with her hands rather than sketches, draping and constructing until something shifts in the familiar object in front of her. The collections that follow are precise and quietly conceptual, built around strong cuts, luxurious materials, and a persistent interest in the removable, the reversible, the garment that can be worn one way or another. She is less interested in reinvention for its own sake than in designing clothes worth keeping, pieces that resist the trend cycle by treating fashion with the same patience one might extend to a well-made chair.