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Linda Loppa is a Belgium Fashion design and fashion consultant. For nine years, she served as the director of Polimoda in Florence, Italy and is now its strategy and vision advisor.
Loppa is known for her role in the development of fashion in Belgium. Prior to working at Polimoda, she served as the director of the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and simultaneously as the director and curator of ModeMuseum Antwerpen. She is also a cofounder of the Flanders Fashion Institute.
Graduates of the Academy while she was its head included Veronique Branquinho, Haider Ackermann, Kris Van Assche, and Demna Gvasalia. Loppa played a role in Raf Simons' career by having him learn the basic principles of tailoring from her father.
While head of the fashion department at the Royal Academy, Loppa was a cofounder of Mode Antwerpen. Founded in 1996, it was a predecessor of what would eventually develop into the Flanders Fashion Institute. In 1998, she was appointed the director of what would become ModeMuseum Antwerpen serving as its first director and curator.
Loppa left Antwerp in 2007, moving to Florence to take over the directorship of Polimoda. She held the position until 2016 when she moved to Paris but continues to work with Polimoda as the director of the university's Strategy & Vision Platform and as a consultant.
Linda Loppa is active as a consultant, curator and lecturer on fashion, art and the in-between.
In 2019, she published Life is a Vortex ISBN 978-88-572-4062-6 which British Vogue described as "revealing her unique way of decoding the business of fashion." The book was published at the request and with the support of Polimoda. She also published the book THE NEW FASHION CONTAINER PROJECT.
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