Numerous wholesalers specializing in textiles and ready-to-wear clothing have set up shop on and around square Robert Pequeursquare. Trousers in vibrant colours, dungarees with floral patterns and fluorescent, sequinned tops hang in clothes racks and lie in huge stacks on the floor. Note: these stores do not cater to individual consumers. Their customers are primarily retailers from Flanders and Brussels. They drop by, choose what they want, pay for their purchases and take them with them. Here, business is conducted according to the principle of ‘cash and carry’: no more studying collection catalogues that require you to make a choice six months in advance. One textile wholesaler after another established itself at this centrally located and easily accessible spot in Brussels, which soon grew into what is locally referred to as the Textile Triangle.
Textile triangle
Location: Square Robert Pequeur, 1070 Anderlecht
