Esfan Eghtessadi met Inge Onsea, this encounter evolved into a love story and in 1999 into Essentiel. They started with a T-shirt collection, after a year the first store opened in Antwerp. Four seasons later, knitwear, jackets, dresses, shirts and trousers. Essentiel nowadays stands for refreshing, offbeat & luxurious fashion, renowned for its graphic or floral prints and trendy mixes of colour.