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Article: Oh, Baby.
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- Interior Design
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- July 1, 2008
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by Maria Shollenbarger
Import.Export Architecture welcomes with love the office of Fragile, a maternity line in Antwerp, Belgium
Hear that someone's pregnant, and certain words will inevitably come to mind. One of them, arguably, is fragile, the adjective Nathalie Vleeshouwer chose as the name for her maternity-wear line. Her clothes are curve-hugging or fitted or revealing, cut from slinky jersey and translucent cotton and silk. In sum, they turn people's ideas about maternity wear--and pregnancy--on their head. Who knew fragile could be so sexy?
When Vleeshouwer and her husband, Jan Bevernage, also Fragile's co-owner, undertook a renovation ...