Who is he? Walter Van Beirendonck was born in 1957 in Brecht-Belgium , origin of a great part of the fashion designers most preferred among the gay community. He graduated in the Royal Academy of FIne Arts in Antwerp, and got together with Dries van Noten or Dirk Bikkembergs, and he was able to achieve his own collections since 1983. He has presented the summer collection using all type of bears as models. For such, he turned his catwalk in Paris as an ode to beards, shaved heads, hairy bellies, tattoed studs... obtaining a great success.