https://mariannecaroline.com/tags/deconstructed-menswear/Recent content in Deconstructed Menswear on Marianne CarolineHugoen-usFri, 13 Nov 2026 03:07:49 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/camiel-fortgens-the-amsterdam-label-rewriting-the-rules/Fri, 13 Nov 2026 03:07:49 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/camiel-fortgens-the-amsterdam-label-rewriting-the-rules/<h2 id="a-designer-who-learned-the-industry-from-the-outside">A designer who learned the industry from the outside</h2> <p>Camiel Fortgens set up his label in Amsterdam in 2014, shortly after finishing at the Design Academy Eindhoven. That background matters: he never went to fashion school, and the label has carried that outsider&rsquo;s instinct ever since. Rather than absorbing the conventions of the trade, he approached clothing as a designer first — asking what a coat or a pair of trousers really is before deciding how to make one.</p>