EYES

Hey, we think many good things come in pairs. Here's a nice one: Marjolein and Wessel. They came by the shop recently to pick out new frames. They are both working as researchers, so one could say they "collect knowledge". Wessel's favorite reaction to his glasses so far was when a friend told him he looks like his mom [aww]. And Marjolien loves her glasses because she feels like her grandmother would have worn them [double aww!]. Timelessness is something we cherish a lot at Bidules. Wessels wears a Castellani 217 (1990s, Italy) and Marjolein the Lizon 205 (1980s, France).

Frederik is often told that he looks like celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal since he started wearing his SELECTA Easy Riders. He's also been asked if his glasses are just for show, but we know the truth: they're prescription with custom 8-base curve lenses. Glasses that turn heads and make waves – we're here for it! As a speculative and material designer, he has a strong fascination for the endlessly-evolving world around us as he works to explore new technology and model how the future might look.

Self-confessed bookworm Laurie, is addicted to books - whether they’re old or new, you’ll find them everywhere in her home; in bed, in the bathroom, even in the kitchen. A visual and textual storyteller, she writes and paints striking images on large canvases. She discovered Bidules on the way to "La Loge" for an exhibition. Luckily, they took a long detour to appreciate a rare spot of good weather and found us as well. Finally, we can thank the Belgian weather for something. If her 1960s MMLO look a little familiar to you, it might be because they’re almost the same pair as the perfumer of "Le Chardon Bleu" in Agnes Varda's film "Le Daguerréotypes"! We think they suit her even better. She’s happiest spending time on her balcony in the evening but you might also find her chasing the best chicken in town at Maison Liénard on Rue Washington. 

For Brussels-based Ghanaian-Belgian musician and artist Esinam, music has been part of her life for a very long time. The passion, the learning, the hours of practice and the art of listening were there from the very beginning. An obsession that eventually led to her creating her own musical world.

She stopped by Bidules on her way downtown, choosing these 1960s cat-eye Fidela frames.

You'll often find her running in Parc Josaphat - whatever the season - or picking up frites at Fritkot Place in Saint-Josse (perhaps the best in the city?). It's all about balance.

Check out her Twilights of Infinity her new album and stream it loud!

A collector by nature, he used to dig a lot for vinyl records, but now he's focused on Yugoslav art and poetry books. We caught him before he was heading out to see 'Madrigalen' by Benjamin Abel Meiraeghe, a delicate dance performance, with music by Doon Kanda. When he's not building a scenography or at an exhibition, you can find him chilling in Parc Tenbosch with a Turkish plate from Lézzet.

Laura has worn glasses since she was a teenager, though she once lost her glasses on a trip and ended up not wearing any for the last five years. These Aeroline were a gift from her boyfriend - they popped into Bidules after lunch with friends - 'lucky they were there - it would have taken me 5 days to choose'. Given the result and the chat we had, we are the ones feeling lucky. You might find Laura sipping a craft beer at Dekkara or on a stroll at the Wiels marsh.

Laura divides her time between audio-visual projects and awareness campaigns for social and environmental issues. The day after the first lockdown in 2020, the member of the 254forest creative collective also created "Isola", a project that takes you on a journey into invisible worlds. We warmly recommend to check out the second and latest episode called SOMOS. A beautiful visual podcast created in collaboration with Transkids and Lydie Nesvadba that gives voice to 13 trans, non-binary, or gender creative youngsters aged nine to twenty-seven who are deconstructing standards and affirming their identities.

This summer, she came to us ready to ditch her contact lenses for good in favor of the right pair of frames. Now she wears the transparent mod. Annecy by Grasset, from Oyonnax circa 1990 – so light, almost seamless. 

She works as an architect and likes to collect books, her favorite subject being the charming and wacky city of Brussels itself. 

So, what's her local Brussels tip? The massive, romantic-yet-fear-inducing works in the Wiertz Museum. We did some research into Wiertz after our conversation with Kaat. Wikipedia states: "Some of his works are erotic and macabre and presage Belgian Symbolism..." and "At his request, his remains were embalmed in accordance with Ancient Egyptian burial rites..." Sounds like another Belgian character for the books... 

At Bidules, it's hard to beat the feeling when our clients bring their dad/mom/sister/coworker/kid/friend/etc. to the shop. For this edition of the EYES series, say hallokes to this father-daughter duo: Celine (Brussels, 1990) and Paul (Ternat, 1961) from Asse, Belgium.

We spent such a nice moment in the store with them, and thought they made two excellent selections. Celine is wearing the 1960s MMLO model manufactured by the Morezienne de Lunetterie et d'Optique in Jura, France. Paul is wearing 1980s gold-filled Desil Pilots manufactured in Domegge, Italy.

When she's not working in production for Bruzz, Celine makes cool fuzzy punch-needled carpets on the side. When Paul's not busy as an architect, he told us that his favorite side project is his kids :')

Like any self-respecting Saint-Gilles dweller, in normal times, you'd be sure to bump into Léa (1994, Saint-Germain en Laye) at Le Flora . She first heard of Bidules on game night, whilst cheering for Royal Union Saint-Gilloise - oh, how we miss those nights with friends and chance encounters.

The first pair of frames she chose from the store were the Bourgeois 2045 (1990s, Morbier), which she lost, coming back to pick up two more pairs - in prescription and sunnies. As here with her L’Amy (1980s, Morez).

Ow, since we are here, any chance you've spotted this custom bike around town? We heard it's also gone missing. Help a girl out.

Hybrid architect, Tuur popped into Bidules after seeing Roger Raveel's retrospective exhibition at BOZAR just across the road. His Selecta mod. Jack (USA), 1960s frames are a total match - and even though they’re his first pair of glasses, he's rooting for a lifetime of companionship.

With a background in architectural studies, he’s often intrigued by objects that combine functionality with aesthetics (that sounds familiar!). In the unlikely scenario that his apartment were on fire, you'd find him running outside with his 'Il Conico' water kettle from the Italian post-modernist architect Aldo Ross! On second thought, it would probably be more useful to extinguish the flames...

He grew up in a small rural village in the Flemish Region - so he’s proud of the life he’s carved out in Brussels. You’re sure to bump into him in RILE the avant-garde book store, or FIRMA, a co-working space he works from for young creatives and designers.

Next time you swing by the store, he also recommends checking out the side entrance of the Ravenstein Gallery to the right of us - it has some beautiful ceiling frescos.

Sophie dropped by the store after spotting us on her way to get tattooed (s/o STIB), and we’re so glad she did - the sixties curves of these acetate Lafont Symphonie (Morez, 1990s) are the perfect fit to her joyful smile.

Always one to be a little different - she loves to collect vintage or exotic fabrics, and remembers her mother telling her that people in the past were wearing the same old things as we do now...

A lover of Ixelles, you’ll find her picking up some good advice along with her cheese at Declerc Delicatesse, or strolling down Chaussée d'Ixelles on their way to/from O'Roots, best syrian food in town!

Software Developer Josse (1994, Leuven) has a passion for fashion - and living in Brussels, he swears by the ‘hipster holy trinity’ - Cinematek for movies, the Brasserie Verschueren
for drinks and of course, the flea market at Jeu de Balles. It’s a goldmine. You’ll find him obsessively on the lookout for garments of the past - from wide 70s graphic ties, to even wider flared trousers and kitschy cufflinks. He’s taking a sewing course, hoping to do more tailoring, and is super proud of the outrageously wide, seventies-inspired ‘Northern Soul’ trousers he made.

Having always been a little embarrassed of his glasses when he was younger, he now sees his OWP as a major privilege to have an extra accessory. Though it’s not always so convenient - once, his glasses fell off in the middle of a crowded dance floor, and facing the choice of either spending the rest of the night as a blind man or grabbing them back from the floor as fast as he possibly could - which is quite a challenge when deprived of your eyesight - Josse chose of course the latter.

David (1988, San Antonio, TX), is an artist based in Brussels and Amsterdam. From saunas inside a Fiat Multipla, to air filtering NASA plants, his installations combine performance, sculpture and writing, telling stories through objects.

He spent a lot of time talking with us at the shop, he was curious, we were curious, you know how it goes. With that hat, we knew we needed to find him something a little bit different, and a little bit sassy - like these transparent pink acetate pantos from the 1950s (Jura, FR).

Later, he told us he'd made a sculpture to hold his glasses whilst he sleeps. We've never seen it, but we love his fanaticism for small objects, of course

Julien takes his glasses very seriously - like these Opaline 5046s, made by our homies at Netoptic (Lot - BE) in the 1980s. The illustrator discovered Bidules on his way downtown to pick up art supplies downtown.

Despite living in Elsene for almost a decade, there’s still something about his old neighborhood’s football team RWDM that moves him. Just like us, he loves to geek out - but instead of frames, for him it’s collecting memorabilia and vintage football shirts.

When the restrictions relax, you’re sure to find him in Sint-Gillis, at Nuovo Brussels , his favourite italian restaurant or at Le Dillens . Oh, and his friends built a brewery together - so you’ll also find him at their bar for top notch craft beer at L'Ermitage.  

Co-owner of Chez Richard on Place du Sablon, Fanny (1990, Uccle) discovered Bidules through a foodie friend (Chez Franz we see you!).

She’s worn glasses since she was ten, and finds it amazing that friends she sees everyday often don’t recognise her without her frames on! Funnily enough, she loves it when people say they prefer her with glasses. So do we, so do we.

When she’s not at the restaurant, during the warn days, you’ll find Fanny taking a nap or having a picnic in Tenbosh Park in the sun. If you see her around, remind her to take good care of her bicolor 1990s L'Amy (Morez) and that we can't wait to hit the terrasse again.

Masked, we advance.

Mexico-born, Belgium-based Emmanuel is an artist, tailor, and sculptor who fashions intricate masks that question the spectacle of perfection and how we perform the social norms imposed on us.

Glasses can be seen as a sort of mask. Sometimes, people might want to 'hide' behind their glasses. But with the right pair and right fit, glasses can also connect us to something authentic within. We think this pair (Jacques Fath, Oyonnax - 1970s) has managed to do that.

We found 5 pairs, but they've all been claimed by beautiful new faces. By the way, these are the thickest acetate frames we've ever seen: 15mm on top!

Chef, winemaker and anti-sulphite dealer, Jules (1989, Burgundy) is sustainable af. He’s currently studying self-sufficiency in farming and winemaking, and last time we met he could'nt help speaking about his friends at Usages Vtmnts, creating unisex local ethic handcrafted clothes.

He’s been wearing glasses since he was a kid, but his last frames met a grisly end. On a three-day hike, he crouched down to admire a flower and had so much suncream on that his glasses slid off his nose, and he ended up crushing them with his giant walking boots. There were still two days left of the hike, so he had no chance of enjoying the views...

Jules is always on the lookout for cool humans and (food-related) deep conversations, so we’re sure you’d get on just fine. 

If you don't recognise Aisha (1992, Montréal) from her name, maybe her face rings a bell. If not, wait to hear her endearing accent or one of her sets. You got it. She's the one who was behind the deck for our 1 year anniversary party - better known as Gayance.

She's heavily involved in the music scene from Canada to Belgium, whilst embracing her power as a Black woman, working hard to empower others on the fight against injustice and misogynoir.

She came to us looking for glasses that would match her flamboyant personality, "but, y'know, also glasses to help me check out cute dudes from a distance without having to squint". Better be warned.

Let us introduce you to Maarten (1984, Aalst), one of the pillars of Rotor DC , a Brussels-based non-profit firm engaged in promoting and facilitating the reuse of building components as a strategy on the path towards a more resource-efficient materials economy. No surprise then that most of our shop furnitures are Rotor productions. Did you know the partition walls we use as glasses displays previously stood in a meeting room of the mythic De Ligne building designed by Marcel Lambrichs in 1971 ? Now you do (check our Instagram for pictures). When Maarten finally showed up to match his glasses with his convictions, we let him go with a pair of 1970s Welt Pantos, originally handcrafter crafted by Castellani in Domegge Di Cadore (IT). The upcycling circle finally went full.

Ok, ok...Jean-Pierre (Uccle, 1956) may look a bit stern in this portrait. But you know what they say, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

The management consultant told us that the personal project he's most proud of is raising his two (now adult) children. And, he even confessed that the main mission for his rust-colored 1950s reading glasses would be to lead his eyes down the delicious path of a fancy restaurant's wine list.

That makes him way more friendly, doesn't it? Let's hope he's able to treat his frames to a trip out to a restaurant soon.

We can be pretty sure that every day we’ll see Arnaud (1975, Paris) riding up the street on his bike, risking his life to wave us an energetic hello.

He’s probably the customer we see most - even if it’s just through the window, but this BX1 systems engineer doesn’t collect glasses. For now, he’s stayed faithful to his trusty 60s aluminium Burris Manhattans, half gold-filled and half brushed aluminium.

They're not the kind of treasure you find every day, and not what everyone would dare to wear, but neither is he a guy that'd be afraid of bright and bold lines.

It only took us 5 minutes to know we shared at least 3 things with Cedric (1992, Abidjan) : our unconditional love for digging, a connexion with Shungu and a irrepressible excitement when our eyes meet a pair of titanium Bugatti frames produced by ODO (Jura, FR) in the early 2000s. Most known under the guise of African Diplomat, this Brussels based record collector and radio host at Bruzz Radio immediately fell in love with these shading lenses and sharp lines. Fair enough.

Don't be fooled. Behind that casual attitude and her KINTO 8011 frames (80s, Belgium) hides a power woman. Victoria is the co-founder of the Canada-Mathare Education Trust (CMETrust), an entirely volunteer-run charity. Back in 2005, this now marine biologist Pew travelled to Nairobi, Kenya for an internship at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters. She began volunteering in a primary school in Mathare. When she returned to Canada, she asked herself what she could do to continue supporting Mathare’s youth and help them facing the many issues related to poverty and lack of education. After some discussions and reflections, CMETrust was born, providing secondary school scholarships for Kenyan youth since 13 years.

Victoria now runs the business from Belgium and is simultaneously engaged in another battle : trying to raise empathetic, resilient kids. We already met her 6 years-old girl, while she joined her mother for the Nutcracker ballet at BOZAR. All we can say is that she's on the right track to become as strong as her mom.

How romantic is it to play video games all night long on a comfy couch with your brother, huh? Ok, enough for the cheesy part.⁣⁣

We already knew Vincent as a friend of our former optician, who naturally sent him to the store. While we cooked up this guy with our questions, trying to figure out what kind of frames would suit him best, he gave us a good reason to see him again: Vincent works as an assistant chef at Oldboy. Chances are you already saw him sweating his ass off in the open-kitchen of this South Asian street food Eldorado.⁣

Some family dinners later, he finally convinced his younger brother Florian to come by and take what appeared to be a needed eye-test. For his very first pair of glasses, the 3D designer went for this gold Fidela 739 (Morez, FR - 1990s), different in shape from the KINTO 2004 (Saintes, BE - 2000s) his brother wears, but going together as their grey hoodies do.

When he first swang by the store, Dries was heading home after a lunch at the BOZAR restaurant. In all honesty, besides his activities for l’Escritoire, it seems like Dries is heading in or out of a restaurant every time we meet. You should hear him talk about wine and deli meats to understand that the guy doesn’t consider the art of the table as laughing matter.

By the way, if you’re ever in the Upper Meuse Valley, go have a drink at the Cerf Vert, the bar he opened on the Dinant Riviera. 

After we crossed Fedra's determined eyes, we weren't that surprised when she explained she was team leader at BOZAR. Therefore she's also the woman next door. As we speak, she isn't working on her PHD in photography but must rather be trying to attract as many birds as possible in her garden. When she came across the shop, she really needed a new pair of glasses to spy them peep into the trees.

Stefano is our neighbor, but he’s also the executive chef of the VICTOR Bozar Café. We’re now used to see him come by the shop several times a week during his break, to tell us a story or try on a few pairs of glasses.

One day, he asked us to slow him down on his cravings for glasses, so we asked him to slow us down on our cravings for Orechiette alla Norma. A healthy, neighbourly relationship all in all.

When Yaqine passed by Bidules, we immediately clicked. And to be honest, we never completely knew if we preferred talking photography or glasses with her.

The only true challenge was to find a pair that would fit her prescription and light enough to be worn 24.7. Because there’s no Yaqine.Raw without glasses. Let’s be clear, her life is no stroll in the park – rather a remake of Roadrunner on film. Things go fast for the one who founded Visual Poetry together with the singer and rapper Martha Da’ro and won the Best Music photographer award at the Redbull Elektropedia awards 2019.

Florence came to us before leaving on several construction sites in Nepal for non-profits. We couldn’t mess it up. Last we heard of her, she was preparing yet another trip around the world. All this to say that her Bourgeois frames will travel places! But isn’t that the point of it all? If you’re reading, don’t hesitate to come by the store for a full check-up before packing your suitcase.

Picture this: Corentin had missed the target as he tried to nonchalantly throw his glasses on the bed, while Louise's glasses could no longer withstand the temperatures of the ovens of the restaurant where she reigns supreme. On their way to a Parquet Courts gig at the Botanique last summer, they stopped by the store. We almost had to throw them out, the concert had been sold out for a while, and the riffs of the 4 New Yorkers are definitely our thing.

After swallowing the pill, we sat down at the table: on the menu, two discreet pairs packed with character nonetheless, made more than 30 years apart in the same Jura valley. No hard feelings.

Calvin was one of the first to enter the store with a pair of glasses he digged himself. It was just a few weeks after the opening, and he wasn’t sure we would accept to restore his Lacoste S7 and edge lenses for it, as the frame didn’t come from our own stock. 

Back in the days, Lacoste frames were manufactured under license by L’Amy in Morez. So it was quite the reverse though : to be honest we were just jealous to not have discovered those double bridge metallic frames ourselves

Valeria lost her previous glasses during an extended weekend in Barcelona, while on a perfect summer trip in the Balkans. They experiment countless planes, trains, buses, tent sleepovers and even a hippy bay in Albania, but they didn't survive a commercial disco club in Barceloneta. If they hadn't run away from her, she wouldn't have encounter her new pair.

By that time, we also heard she got a baby. Congrats !

We won’t lie, sometimes we simply fail to get enough informations while racking our brains and memories to write a proper bio months after the encounter. That’s the game, and we prefer to say it straight rather than to make stories up about someone. Fake news are bad, you should know that.

The most important : Jasmine once entered the store and left with her perfect match, a hexagonal gold Symphony in that case.

We met the film director in Berlin back in 2017, during the Adidas Skate Copa. He swang by our first workshop in Anderlecht a few weeks later. We chatted for 3 hours, he chose his glasses in 3 minutes.

Since then, alongside his films, he has put together particlelife.com, an online platform gathering his friends' photo work, mainly around skateboarding culture : “The main criteria is that I have to know the photographers in person and that their images I select ‘do’ something to my gut feeling.”We’re head over heels, plain and simple !

Would you be surprised if we tell you Michaël’s first visit to the store was mainly initiated by a Belgian rapper ? He was in between two spoons of Kellogs when he discovered us while checking Caballero’s Instagram Stories. Not sure about the composition of the breakfast though, maybe this tall administrative agent is more of a crispy bacon & beans kind of guy, but that’s how we love to picture the scene.

Fitting a duo is always kind of a challenge for us. We were just getting used to couples when the Vander Gucht sisters showed up.⁣ We loved meeting the two of them together, and rummaging through our stock trying to make up a duo that works together as well as separately for this nursery-school teacher and her younger sister, student in Agogische Wetenschappen at the VUB.

Born in Braine l’Alleud in 1991, Fabien doesn’t beat around the bush. Chances are you know him for his electronic music productions under the guise of Le Motel. Well, we do too. Besides dropping beats, he’s also a graphic and motion designer, and lent us a strong hand on some of our digital projects. But this is not all there is behind this mischievous smile. The guy also recently launched his own record label, Malorca Records. 

We won’t lie, sometimes we simply fail to get enough informations while racking our brains and memories to write a proper bio months after the encounter. That’s the game, and we prefer to say it straight rather than to make stories up about someone. Fake news are bad, you should know that.

The most important : Bruyneel once entered the store and left with her perfect match, a thick black Symphony in that case. And look how happy they seem to be.

Graphic designer and editor holding the reins of Bichel Edition, we don’t know how Vincent manages to find the time to sleep. We first saw him during summer 2018, when he was working on the edition festival Salon Mirage or on the onboarding of an artist in residency at the Micro-Factory, or both. Last time we met, it was to tighten the screws of his frames that had experimented a rough time on his curious nose.

Meet Valentin and Amélie, respectively born and raised in Vendée and Normandy. They both turned up at the shop and I remember we talked about comics, had a good laugh; Valentin was sporting orange glasses from his teenage years because his former frames had just given up the ghost, while Amélie still holds the record for the smallest pupil distance ever measured at the shop. You don’t care ? Fair enough.

If you stumble upon these two, whether for the release of their fanzine Vague Pression (novels, comics, drawing) in spring or in a bookshop around Flagey, ask Valentin how he lost his last pair of glasses. All he could tell us was that it involved a nocturnal paranormal event...

After a summer day in 2018, the team was having an afterwork drink in front of the store when Emily and Luca showed up, coming out of Whitney’s premiere screened at BOZAR.

We let them inside to take a peek around and as ecological warriors, they were quickly convinced by the dead stocks upcycling ideology. They would come back a few days later. First him, shortly followed by her.

We kind of love obsessive people and weird collectors. So when we met this rocks and minerals nerd, it triggered our curiosity. When we then discovered she listens to endless ambiant music playlists while thinking about her jewelry constructions, we felt in love.

Therefore we decided to join forces and obsessions with Shitika and she became the mind and hands behind our HYBRIDS series. For the past months, she has been an amazing workmate, and we can honestly say this Jewelry Designer from the Antwerp Academy got gold in her hands.

It’s hard to tell what there is behind Patricks’ fascinating blue eyes. But we know for sure what there is in front of them, because this may have been the best fit in Bidules’s history. 

Wearing by anyone else, this frame would have seemed severe, almost irrelevant. But not on Patrick. We remember a hurricane entering the store, trying on one single frame, and being directly convinced. After he left, we had the chance to meet him another day during 5 minutes at the bottom of his work building to take this portrait, then the guy disappeared forever.

We remember very well when Fabian first showed up at the store. Quite intrigued by the ultrasonic cleaner, we put his watch in. In the meantime, we learnt about his passion for kilims and Iranian Kurdistan. A passion he pursues through Pardis Tapis, a project he co-founded. Needless to say that hearing how they travelled to the most remote villages in Iran on the lookout for vintage kilims, their stories and the legends surrounding them, directly connected us.

Yuva and Giacomo are all about getting people together by creating interactions around livestreams, rendez-vous, parties, art, exhibitions and more. Wait, did I just pitch his project Plein Sud? Whatever, that’s how we saw this tall Brusseleir when he passed by the shop last summer.

When he’s not busy dedicating his everything to Brussels’ nightlife culture, Giacomo is spending so much time at the shop we may have to blacklist him. First, because he loves glasses at least as much as we do, and second, because he has the worrying penchant to sit on them.

We may have told you already how challenging it is to find frames for couples or siblings, so you can easily imagine the pressure we were under when these two came in : Nedda and Loulou, mother and daughter, pictured here all smiles in their garden in the suburbs of Antwerp. What a pleasure for our glasses to once again cross generations !

Born and raised in Hasselt, Alexandra is now based in Brussels and works as a photographer and photo editor for De Standaard. When we met, she was busy reorganizing and digitalizing her archives – making a photobook of each and every one of her hard drives. For having had the courage to throw yourself into this painstakingly tedious task that some are postponing for a lifetime (including us), we wanted to express our wholehearted admiration.

Some of you may know already that on Saturdays, since we can’t head to a bar, we’re starting the aperitif with our clients and try to tempt them with a glass of wine or a beer from the Brasserie de la Senne. Coming out from another optician, more or less convinced, Didier didn’t see that coming. After making sure he wasn’t on tram duty that night, the STIB driver quickly found himself with a pair of glasses in one hand and a drink in the other.

Pictured here are the Murenzi brothers, wrapping up YellowStraps latest project. At the workshop, their first EP Whirlwind Romance had been on repeat in the “Bidules - Workflow” Spotify playlist since 2015. Needless to say we were more than thrilled to gear them up with glasses. Their upcoming project is called Goldress, and knowing what frame Yvan chose to come home with, we’re not that surprised about this gold color mania.

That’s the story of a customer who didn’t want to buy glasses, thought about getting a pair, ended up leaving with two, lost one of them and finally came back to buy one more. Nothing too unusual so far. But the most important detail of this story is that Estelle has left with the last pair of our Garrett (L’Amy, 1980s).⁣

And honestly, as every goodbye, that wasn’t easy.

You may have seen this guy already, having had a few drinks too many already, while he was preaching the word with his analog synthesizer under the mysterious name of Monolithe Noir. We met Antoine at the vinyl shop he was working at. He wanted to try glasses on. The sun was shining and we were sober. He made us discover Connan Mockasin and we got a parking ticket in the meantime.

We easily remember that sunny afternoon when we met Hervé for his portrait. It was just after he walked his faithful partner Enéa in Egmont Park (Ixelles).

While he was quietly rocking his very own round Mikado (1990s, Morez) as he is used to, we once again experienced the challenge of shooting a dog and trying to keep the Greyhound still. Challenged faced.

Benoit prefers to define himself as a creative rookie. If the Brussels based videomaker, designer, musician and photographer looks familiar, it's maybe because he's never far from Roméo Elvis, producing video clips and working closely with the crew. Our paths have crossed many times since the day we met while he was playing with the atmospheric pop band Ulysse. If you want a taste of his many projects, go have a look at his website.