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First ever The Most guest Lefto returns to usher out the year and subsequently Series 1 of the show. Your favourite DJ's favourite DJ, festival curator and label owner and Dominique have so much more to talk about. For instance, the big Keith Haring retrospective that was about to open when this episode was recorded and that is currently running at Bozar in Brussels until mid May 2020. They then talk about mountain biking which they both took up at a certain point in time, the hypochondriac life, documentary-making plans, curating festivals, running a record label and the difficulty of getting picked-up as an artist in a streaming world. Dominique also asks why Lefto looked a little bit bummed at the huge party celebrating his 20-year career as a radio DJ and host and of course gets an honest answer. They discuss perseverance, the trials and tribulations of running your own label in a conglomerate world, how the fashion system is stealing from the culture, favourite artists, DJ-sets and sneakers of 2019, including Lefto's own dream collaboration.

Inge Grognard is the most groundbreaking and influential make-up artist in contemporary fashion, but working for Balenciaga or Marc Jacobs hasn't dampened her love for the underdog one bit. Taking a quick break from flying from one international set to another, Grognard visits the loft to recount her days as a young teen meeting her best friend who also happened to be Martin Margiela's cousin, kickstarting a decades-long friendship and work-relationship with the designer himself. Dominique really wants to talk about the little known fact that Inge was present during the infamous 1986 Antwerp Six breakthrough at London Fashion Week, where she was solely in charge of make-up looks for the collections of each individual member, being Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs, Marina Yee and Ann Demeulemeester. Inge shares memories from her whirlwind wedding at 23, her Adam and the Ants-inspired wedding look designed by Margiela of course and the beautiful book she made with her husband Ronald Stoops after 30 years of them collaborating. Inge and Dominique also get into Inge's love for collaborating with young innovators like Shayne Oliver from Hood By Air and Akeem Smith from Section 8 and when the international icon -as her close friend Dirk Van Saene once called her- discusses the intense emotions she experienced during what turned out to be the very last Maison Martin Margiela runway under the reign of Margiela himself, she confesses to one of her biggest regrets in life and how it informed a recent very difficult decision she had do make.

Award-winning director Jonas Govaerts has just started prepping the sequel to his 2014 feature film 'Welp' aka 'Cub', which means Dominique going on long tangents about her scouting days doesn't phase him at all. He shares how he found a framework for his first movie and how he got to design a horror maze for a big theme park. The two also discuss Jonas' fast rise in the Belgian rock, magazine and TV world and what happened after he woke up to the severe ear bleeding that would derail his life for years to come. Dominique is keen to know how Jonas deals with professional rejection and what working with Nicolas Cage was like. And when the two finally get to discuss cult director Richard Stanley for whom Jonas got to direct 2nd unit for his anticipated comeback movie 'Color Out of Space', it is really on.

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Antwerp Fashion Academy graduate Raphaële Lenseigne started her footwear-brand Adult while finishing her final year at the famous school. She talks to Dominique about the road after graduation, exploring the male parts of her identity, repurposing her anger towards the fashion industry, her strategy looking for a new business partner, an important lesson learned from Dries Van Noten and her anticipated genitalia-inspired small leather goods collection.

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Supermodel and artist's muse Hannelore Knuts has walked all the fashion and haute couture runways from Prada over Chanel to Gucci and YSL. She and Dominique discuss their Catholic school days and Hannelore's photography student beginnings. HK talks overcoming her shyness and the road to feeling comfortable doing Alexander McQueen shows as well as being on set with Inez and Vinoodh, Juergen Teller or Steven Meisel via a shoulder bump from another modelling icon. Find out how she got David Bowie's approval and where she sees her life heading next.

Unflinching visual artist and fashion and graphic designer Kofi Von Ohene visits Dominique Nzeyimana in the loft. Just turning 23 on the day this episode drops, Von Ohene has already reached legendary status among his own and a younger generation with his eponymous Kofi Von Ohene line. It's a lot of word-to-mouth, though, as this Ghent-born and raised 23-year-old fiercely protects his online presence. During the conversation, Kofi gets into the reason his football dreams fell through and how it led him to graphic design and fashion. He also discusses what the infamous '696' represents and how being inspired by Tom Hardy brought him to his first important co-sign.

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Enigmatic GOOSE-frontman and ever-stylish musician Mickael Karkousse visits the loft to talk about how it took his bandmates nudging him in the right direction for him to even consider recording solo music. He also discusses how the chase for continuous evolution led to the opening of a recording studio complex that just sent out the soundtrack to 'War of the Worlds' and other international series. He opens up about his love and hate relationship with fashion, his short-lived modelling career for some of the Belgian greats and about what happens when after you get to collaborate with Raf Simons, DIOR, Willy Vanderperre and Storm Thorgerson, you deliberately decide to go back to DIY. Dominique is very curious to know if going solo means that we get a deeper look inside the psyche of his pretty mysterious MK persona and the two apparently share a weird trait of getting inspired while people they respect are all up in their ear. They end things off with some of their thoughts on Virgil Abloh and finding balance.

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Stand-up comedian Soe Nsuki visits the loft and discusses her whirlwind-career from never having been on stage or even having seen live comedy, to performing her hilarious solo show and tour in a little over six years. The only solo show by a Belgian comedian that comedy-nerd Dominique has been willing to pay money for, mind you. The two of them delve into plenty of real talk, from finding a way to deal with the madness of growing up, the pitfalls of nightlife, learning how to write comedy and spinning trauma into gold. They also try to work through their mixed feelings regarding one particular problematic fave, aka Dave Chappelle, discuss how therapy can help with crafting jokes and Dominique finds out how after one particular YouTube binge, Margot Robbie became Soe's unlikely example.

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Walter Van Beirendonck, the most defiant and radical member of the Antwerp Six, is the greatest fashion designer in the world according to your host, so to have him on is a beautiful gift, but also slightly nerve-racking. The two of them discuss Walter's most recent projects like the new exhibition he designed for the Outsider Art Museum in Amsterdam and his ongoing work with Rei Kawakubo from Comme des Garçons. Walter also reminisces about the times he and his fellow Antwerp Six members and Martin Margiela went on shopping sprees and travelled to Japan. Since Raf Simons, Demna Gvasalia and Craig Green used to be Walter's interns, he explains his selection method. And he talks about his approach as the head of the Antwerp Fashion Academy.

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The Most Brave Dalilla Hermans, author and activist, visits The Loft to sit down with her long-time friend. Find out how the young writer turned tragedy into triumph after she was forced to hire security when death threats against her got out of control. The two pals discuss their respective working and writing methods, their tolerance levels for various forms of white audacity, but things get really real when Dominique decides to try out a potential new The Most-segment.

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