Raf Simons is a belgian fashion designer born in 1968. Linda Loppa, at the time head of the fashion department at the Antwerp Rowal Academy, encouraged Raf Simons to launch his own label, what he did in 1995. His first collection, for the Winter-Fall 1995 collection, presented two street models in a video. Since April 2012, Raf Simons is the creative Director at Christian Dior.