Walter Van Beirendonck Wants You to Take Humor Seriously

Approximately a third of the screen is taken up by a white beard. Against the background wall, shelves heave with toys, models, dolls, and plastic figurines (including a Spiderman figure which teeters, imposingly, from above). At the center of it all is the 63-year-old fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck.Van Beirendonck is speaking via Zoom from Zandhoven, a small village in rural Belgium, where he lives with his partner, the designer Dirk Van Saene. Though he still regularly makes the 11-mi...