Shop Rue des Minimes 58, 1000 Bruxelles Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 18:00, Sunday sometimes open - For made to measure we ask you to book an appointment: info@janue.be, +32 479 17 73 94
Points of Sale BELGIUM The Housewarming Antwerpen, La Vie en Rose Knokke, Profiel Leuven, L'héroïne Brugge, Suite Gent, Avenue Belsele, L'Opéra Aarschot, Annick Goedhuys Beveren, Smits Studio Tessenderlo, Things That Make You Happy Knokke, Dresscode Schilde, Blue System Genk, Boboli Waregem, Yannucci Turnhout, Pure Mechelen, Obelisk Oostduinkerke, Edith of Oxford Mortsel, Studio Manoir Sint-Genesius-Rode, Enfin Kortrijk, Au Fuseau Spa, Iconic Lauwe, La Bottega Hasselt, Scarpina Sint-Truiden LEBANON Piaff Beirut, JAPAN Finn Tokyo, Valeur Ishikawa Prefecture.
JANUE has two faces so she is multiple, mainly under control but sometimes restless and even confused. It’s hard to have one face, let alone two. She still resists growing in time, like a human being, from the young to an old age. However, the choice is made for movements from the prototype to the unique, from the virtual, the sudden intuition to its repetition and to the exceptional. It’s a different idea of time, made for those who are not bothered with ends, with straight lines, with bodies growing old.
JANUE was founded in 2019 by Belgian art historian Céline Van den Bossche.
Less interested in the latest clothes she concentrates exclusively on the right clothes. The infinite dynamics of the bodily motion, the potential growth of the soul in different directions at once and the Baroque aesthetics of the indeterminate folds are the leitmotifs of JANUE. JANUE recreates patterns that move from the generic prototype to the unique, from the virtual, the sudden intuition to its repetition and to the exceptional.
She works through three movements: the Prototype, the Archetype, and Sui Generis.
From these foundations grow both the collection and the house’s parallel practices such as Made-to-Measure, Vita Activa, and institutional or private commissions.
The main ambition of JANUE is not just to produce new shapes but to combine them with feeling, imagining and thinking. JANUE is an old dandy with antiquated ideas who thinks that words matter and reflection is important. She struggles on that border between an old medieval Brussels and the new boulevards. Without even knowing it she is closer to Charles Buls, defender of the Mont des Arts and portrayed on the Grass Market with a handlebar moustache, a book and his dog the modern. JANUE is a dandy following either the meandering steps on the rare cobbled stones of Brussels or exercising some cool strutting on what’s left of the new parts.
All of JANUE is entirely made in Belgium.