Kaat Tilley, one of Flanders’ best-known fashion designers, has been quiet for more than a year, but that’s about to change. Following some difficult business conflicts she’s not about to discuss with a reporter, she’s cut all ties with the shop in the Koningsgalerij in Brussels that bore her name and is about to present a new collection of designs – dresses, fabrics, furniture, lighting and jewellery – at her home in Asse, an old watermill transformed into a fairytale.