Source: The Retail Factory 2025

De Modenatie, Antwerp’s creative fashion centre, reopened its doors after a thorough refurbishment. This building, at the beginning of Nationalestraat, houses the MoMu Fashion Museum and the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. No wonder major fashion brands, such as Dries Van Noten and Christian Wijnants, found their perfect location here. Parallel to Nationalestraat runs Kammenstraat, where bold, new businesses regularly emerge. Its shop windows are teemed with colourful streetwear and alternative collections.

Anyone aiming to be part of the famous Antwerp fashion scene or willing to launch a contemporary hospitality concept will undoubtedly feel completely at home in the unique Nationalestraat,  the Steenhouwersvest and the surrounding streets. The Steenhouwersvest was only recently reconceived as a shopping  area, which means that the pedestrian rules there. It is the perfect transit location between Nationalestraat and Kloosterstraat, harbouring  many a famous fashion name at the beginning of the street and further down the road home to more specialty and interior businesses connecting to what the Kloosterstraat is offering. Keep an eye on this neighbourhood, because in the near future the Police Tower and the shopping centre on the Oudaan will be given a thorough makeover. It is not yet determined what their strategic implementation will be.