Van de Velde N.V. is a publicly traded company that designs and manufactures luxury lingerie. It is located in the Belgian town of Schellebelle (Wichelen). The company was founded in 1919 by Achiel and Margaret Van de Velde and is still owned by the same family. In 1990, the company bought German lingerie brand Prima Donna. Its products are designed in Schellebelle, and produced abroad. The majority of the company's production activites take place in Tunisia. Van de Velde also maintains production facilities in China and Romania.

The products are sold under the brand names: Marie Jo - Haute Lingerie, Marie Jo L'Aventure - Lingerie Pure, Prima Donna - Exigez l'excellence, Marie Jo Intense - Move in Style and Andres Sardá.

In 2008 Van de Velde Lingerie's total turnover was €133 million with employees in various locations: Belgium (448 employees), Hungary (347), Tunisia (658), Spain (108) and other (88 employees). The profit - after tax - amounted to € 28.6 million.

In 2010 Van de Velde took control of multi-brand lingerie retail chain Intimacy USA, spending US$13.5m on an additional stake in the company.

 Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (English: New Flemish Alliance, abbreviated as N-VA) is a Flemish right-wing political party, founded in the autumn of 2001. It is a conservative and liberal movement that promotes civic nationalism. It is part of the Flemish Movement, and strives for the peaceful and gradual secession of Flanders from Belgium.

The party is also known for its insistence on the exclusive use of Dutch, Flanders' sole official language, in dealings with government agencies, and for the promotion of the use of Dutch in Flanders as the language enabling integration. They currently participate in the Flemish Government, in coalition with the Christian democratic CD&V and socialist sp.a.

After initially struggling with the election threshold, the N-VA operated as part of an alliance with CD&V. They ran together in the 2004 regional elections and 2007 federal elections, winning both. The alliance ended in 2008 due to lack of progression in state reform negotiations, leaving the regional government and running separately in 2009 in the Flemish election, winning sixteen seats, and European election, winning one seat. It joined the regional government again and currently holds two out of nine minister seats in the cabinet.

A number of people have had the surname Van de Velde (Dutch for "of the field") including:

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William "Will" Frischkorn (born June 10, 1981 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a former professional road bicycle racer, who finished his career with UCI ProTour team Garmin-Slipstream. He retired from professional cycling in September 2009 to take up a non-racing role with the team.

Christian Vande Velde (born May 22, 1976 in Lemont, Illinois, U.S.) is an American professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for Garmin-Barracuda. The son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee John Vande Velde, Christian became professional in 1998 for US Postal.

He twice rode on the Tour de France team that brought Lance Armstrong to victory, in 1999 and 2001. In the 1999 Tour de France Vande Velde was for a time the leader of the youth classification; he did not complete the 2001 Tour de France. Christian Vande Velde moved to Liberty Seguros in 2004 and switched to Team CSC in 2005. During this time, he worked as a domestique, riding in support of varying team captains, even though the 2005 season saw Vande Velde taking chances of his own including a breakaway on 4th stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux, which was eventually hampered when the peloton was led on a false route, meaning the riders of the breakaway had to wait for the peloton to get back on track, at which time the gap between the break and the peloton was reduced from six to four minutes with 43 kilometres to go.