Dries van Noten
Dries van Noten
Dries Van Notenis a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand. In 2005, the New York Times described him as "one of fashion's most cerebral designers". His style is said to be "eccentric", and fell out of favor during the long period of minimalistic fashion in the early 1990s, only to make a come back towards the mid-2000s, culminating with Van Noten's winning of the International Award of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2008. That same...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionDesigner
CountryBelgium
easily luxuries
One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.
art clothes people
I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
beautiful fashion flower
The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.
inspiration grandparent age
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.
fashion important enjoy
Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.
girl boys night
There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.
dream reality inspire
Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality.
fashion thinking years
A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.
creativity negative restriction
For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
people responsibility work
I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
coming david kid music pop programmes
I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
deciding evenings middle sitting talking
I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
design keeping mind women
I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.