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NAOMI WAKU / NAMGLAM

The Most

Release Date: 10/03/2024

LEONARDO VAN DIJL show art LEONARDO VAN DIJL

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Hot off a '100% Fresh' (!) rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the announcement that his film is Belgium's official submission for the 2025 Oscars, director Leonardo Van Dijl enters the loft for an in-depth conversation about his already acclaimed debut  'Julie Keeps Quiet'. Together with Dominique, he dives into his time at Vice and film school, his provocative award-winning short 'Get Ripped', the importance of the queer gaze and the anxieties & breakthroughs that come with the honest search for your voice.  Leonardo opens up about the elaborate process of securing funding for...

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NAOMI WAKU / NAMGLAM show art NAOMI WAKU / NAMGLAM

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Bright viral make-up star and image-maker Naomi Waku aka NamGlam might still be young, but she knows a thing or two about life coming full circle. In less than 48 hours she will be proudly presenting the result of a collaboration with at its sold out 'Alter Ensor' event- located in the exact same building she once left cradling her broken teenage dream of becoming a fashion designer.  Together with Dominique she recounts her journey of self-discovery, how she uses her face as a canvas for complex storytelling, the importance of friendships carrying you through and the strategies that...

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MOUS LAMRABAT show art MOUS LAMRABAT

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Welcome to a brand-new season of The Most!  Today's guest is Mous Lamrabat, who as far as Dominique is concerned is not just a photographer, but a visual alchemist spinning gold through his lens.  The award-winning Moroccan-Belgian image maker has become a global sensation known for his colour-drenched, culture-infused art photography and dreamy fashion magazine covers. GQ, YSL Beauty, ELLE, Vanity Fair, Burberry, Chanel – Mous Lamrabat has left his mark on them all.  Having first met and collaborated years ago, Mous and Dominique discuss his journey from growing up with...

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RINUS VAN DE VELDE show art RINUS VAN DE VELDE

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Belgian contemporary artist Rinus Van de Velde joins Dominique Nzeyimana in the loft. With a career spanning over 20 years, Rinus has enchanted the international art world and is hailed for his powerfully fluid drawings and texts. His artistic practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film - opening portals to multiple realities. Rinus and Dominique have a meeting of minds about the artist’s changing relationship with nostalgia, expansion, the magic of drawing, learning from his artistic forefathers and the enduring impact of Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon and Franz...

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GHINA BAZZI show art GHINA BAZZI

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Ghina Bazzi is the first world-class chef to be featured on The Most. Classically trained at the highest level, the Lebanese-born, Antwerp-based food entrepreneur joins Dominique at the loft to recount her earliest days moving to Sierra Leone from Beirut and how that shaped her personally and professionally.  The two dive into Ghina’s formative years in the high-demand kitchens of multi-Michelin-star chefs, the heart-breaking decisions she had to make and the hard times that led her from hosting sold-out culinary nights to the inception of her current dream and Antwerp's newest hotspot,...

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KIANGANA MUPATSHI show art KIANGANA MUPATSHI

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Kiangana Mupatshi is a designer, vocalist and the founder of concept label BLESS.  On this episode, Kiangana and Dominique talk growing up in Antwerp, family histories, self-definition, overcoming left-field knock-backs and finding your voice again and again, whether it’s in music, fashion design or community work.  Kiangana shares memories of growing up alongside Jan-Jan Van Essche's family and witnessing the early days of Jan-Jan and Piëtro Celestina building Atelier Solarshop. She then opens up about making a mark as a reggae and dub vocalist and what lead her to launch her...

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COLIN H. VAN EECKHOUT show art COLIN H. VAN EECKHOUT

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Even after 25 years of being part of venue-scorching post metal phenom AMENRA, arguably one of the best live bands in the world, Colin H. van Eeckhout isn’t planning on ending his quest towards fully embodying his highest self. The artist opens up about the enduring imprint of being a 20 year-old watching your father take his final breath and how that shaped everything after. He then delves into some of AMENRA’s distinctive performance rituals and gives a couple of hard-learned strategies for keeping a touring 5-piece headstrong band together and thriving. Colin also shares his...

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NAUD VERBOEKET / TEARS show art NAUD VERBOEKET / TEARS

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Naud Verboeket is the designer and founder of cult clothing and footwear brand TEARS.  The now 26 year-old founded his label TEARS in 2016, making art out of the personal pain he was feeling at the time.  Embodying creative and social push-back while growing a close-knit community, Naud’s work with TEARS and his designs for iconoclasts like ‘Europapa’ Joost Klein and Belgian's own Nathan Vandergunst aka Acid have made a searing mark on the lowlands' style and music scene. Naud and Dominique muse on the marathon that is dream-building, unconventional ways to keep the...

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ASTER NZEYIMANA show art ASTER NZEYIMANA

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Aster Nzeyimana is an outstanding Belgian sports journalist, presenter and TV-host.  As the youngest-ever sports anchor on Flemish prime-time news, Aster has carved out an impressive media career budding from prodigy-status to multi-talented screen and airwaves mainstay. Today, he impresses audiences both in UEFA Champions League studios and global smash formats like ‘The Voice’.  Sitting comfortably at the loft, the two Nzeyimana’s hit replay on some of his major highlights & crunch-time challenges.  The pair discuss complex family tales, Aster's beginnings on student...

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COELY show art COELY

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Coely is an award-winning artist from Belgium. A 21st century virtuoso with a golden voice and ultra-magnetic flow, who makes waves in whatever lane she decides to pull up in. Singing, rapping, beatboxing, writing, coaching and now also designing - Coely does it all. Offering: “I told my people: ‘Immediately yes. We have to do ‘The Most’,’” upon entering the loft, Coely then takes Dominique on a trip from early-day audiences to alchemising her scars into international success, uncovering new skills along the way. Together the pair discuss turbulent upbringings, finding...

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Bright viral make-up star and image-maker Naomi Waku aka NamGlam might still be young, but she knows a thing or two about life coming full circle. In less than 48 hours she will be proudly presenting the result of a collaboration with MoMu at its sold out 'Alter Ensor' event- located in the exact same building she once left cradling her broken teenage dream of becoming a fashion designer. 

Together with Dominique she recounts her journey of self-discovery, how she uses her face as a canvas for complex storytelling, the importance of friendships carrying you through and the strategies that took her from the IG Explore page to millions of views to features in Allure, ELLE, Marie Claire and BuzzFeed. 

A gifted producer of captivating visuals, Naomi knows how to pose down and serve angles, but her art doesn’t just focus on external beauty. By flirting with the quote-unquote freaky and foregoing obvious conventions, she inspires and represents Black women, femmes and beauty aficionados looking to tear down the limitations of dominant norms.

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The Most is written and produced by KNOTORYUS.