A small group of avant-garde fashionistas is giving Brussel an underground designer edge. Brussel is the capital city of Belgium. It is a city which does not have the couture catchet of London, Milan or Paris.

The young designers and students of fashion are using unusual and even surreal spaces like a bakery, thrift shop, a bicycle repair shop and a former electricity power plant to display their work. These budding fashionistas are giving the capital of Belgium a fashion buzz.

“In Brussels, what is unique is Brussels itself,” said the coordinator of Modo Brussels Fashion Designers Trail, Veronique Heene. The mentioned event is a bi-annual fashion and art exhibition. “It’s a small town. It’s not a big, big town. It’s a mix of culture, really an international city even if it’s a small city, and many people are coming from elsewhere.”

The first electricity plantin Brussels, La Centrale Electrique,is the starting point of the trail. It leads throughout the city’s downtown and the funky Rue Dansaert district. It has takinn 60 exhibition spaces in it. In this electricity plant, there is a neon-yellow hall at the end, a single mannequin is present in the electric-bright yellow neon.

There is an ensemble near the entrance that resembles a sequined dragon. It only uses two colors, gold and green. The light gives off the sequins giving off a rainbow of colors. Heene said that the event is designed to appeal to anyone who has even little interest in fashion. “It’s an interesting event because the professionals, the journalists and the public, even my mother, can find something interesting in it.”