Veronique Branquinho (born in Vilvoorde, 1973) is a Belgian fashion designer of Portuguese ancestry who studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, from which she graduated in 1995.
[5] In 2009, she decided to stop her label, as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, but she revived it three years later, in collaboration with Italian manufacturer Gibò (now Onward Luxury Group).
[7] Branquinho studied sciences at a local high school in her native Vilvoorde, but she took evening classes in drawing and painting.
She decided to pursue these creative interests and enrolled in the Saint-Luke’s Academy, a Brussels high school focusing on the arts.
[2][3][4] This Spring Summer 1998 womenswear collection, inspired by the neo-romanticism of David Hamilton’s photography and Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock was such an immediate success that Branquinho had to close her showroom two days early, to avoid putting too much strain on her production ateliers.
[12] After three years, Branquinho revived her namesake brand in collaboration with Onward Luxury Group, presenting her Spring-Summer 2013 womenswear collection at the Paris fashion week in 2012.
[10] To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of her label, the MoMu Fashion Museum in Antwerp organised the retrospective exhibition MOI, VERONIQUE.