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Anneleen BERTELS

  • Textile designer & creative director at KNOTTO
Anneleen BERTELS

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Anneleen Bertels is a textile designer and researcher based in Brussels. After working for Balenciaga, Maison Margiela, and Ann Demeulemeester, Anneleen founded her studio in 2022 to develop Jewellerized Textiles, embellishing textiles with a fusion of embroidery and jewelry. By interweaving traditional craftsmanship with contemporary ideas, she and Waldo De Keersmaecker also established KNOTTO, an international non-profit building creative bridges between Europe and Japan.