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Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, who for almost 4 decades dazzled nan fashion world pinch his luscious usage of colors and fabrics, said Tuesday he will measurement down arsenic imaginative head of his namesake marque astatine nan extremity of June.
Van Noten, 65, a maestro of blending nan aged pinch nan new, said successful a connection that nan 2025 men’s Spring-Summer postulation will beryllium nan past successful his existent role. He added that nan women’s postulation will beryllium designed by his studio.
Van Noten’s successor will beryllium announced astatine a later stage, he said.
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"I person been preparing for this infinitesimal for a while, and I consciousness it’s clip to time off room for a caller procreation of talents to bring their imagination to nan brand," Van Noten said.
Although he will relinquish his domiciled arsenic imaginative director, Van Noten will still beryllium progressive successful nan manner house.
Fashion patient Puig acquired a mostly stock successful Van Noten successful 2018, pinch nan designer remaining imaginative head of nan brand, which has expanded into beauty and fragrance. Van Noten said nan Puig's takeover has helped nan marque "blooming."
"Like successful a garden, you determine what to plant; and astatine immoderate point, it continues to flourish," he said.
Van Noten graduated from nan manner creation people astatine nan Royal Academy of Fine Arts successful Belgium successful 1981 and debuted his first postulation 5 years later. His first flagship shop opened successful 1989 successful Antwerp, nan Belgian larboard metropolis wherever he was calved successful a family of tailors.
Belgian manner designer Dries Van Noten, pictured here, announced Tuesday that he will measurement down from his namesake marque astatine nan extremity of June. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
As Antwerp developed a estimation of Europe’s superior of cool, Van Noten emerged arsenic a awesome imaginative unit arsenic portion of "The Antwerp Six," a corporate that besides included Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee.
"In nan early ’80s, arsenic a young feline from Antwerp, my dream was to person a sound successful fashion," he said. "Through a travel that brought maine to London, Paris and beyond, and pinch nan thief of countless supportive people, that dream came true."
Van Noten made his debut astatine nan Paris Fashion Week successful 1991 pinch a menswear collection. His first womenswear show connected nan French superior city's catwalks was staged 2 years later. Ever since, Van Noten has staged 2 womenswear and 2 menswear shows each year.
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His Paris Fashion Week’s autumn show past period was a ocular feast of illusions and contrasts. The sleeves were trim to make them almost two-dimensional, an innovative play connected position that challenges nan viewer’s gaze. Sweaters seemed to animate, embracing their wearers successful a creation of cloth and form.
This interplay of textures and colors created a move power and poesy that has go a Van Noten hallmark.
"Now I want to displacement my attraction to each nan things I ne'er had nan clip for," Van Noten said. "I’m sad, but astatine nan aforesaid clip happy."
