BACK | NEXT     All this doesn’t mean the Belgian market is being neglected; abroad the company profiles itself explicitly as Belgian although one wouldn’t guess this judging on the name. The company originally started as Henri Doyen but for some reason or another the name didn’t work and that’s when it was translated into English and became Henry Dean. When asked where he finds the inspiration for his designs, Henry Dean says : « That’s a very difficult question for me. Every collection has two aspects : on the one side, one that’s fashionable and intentionally trendy. A direction you are more or less forced into commercially. That is not to say that I don’t like these designs, but there is less of myself in them. So far the ‘business part’ if we have to call it that way. On the other hand we have the objects I really put my soul into. An example? The image of the Palestinian boy who was killed in Gaza while seeking protection behind his father. That inspired me when I designed ‘Poesjkin’, a stone with read stains symbolizing the blood, captured in glass. That’s a design I really love but still, I try not to take myself too seriously.