Belgian designer Dries Van Noten, who for nearly 4 many years dazzled the style world together with his luscious use of colours and materials, stated Tuesday he’ll step down as artistic director of his namesake model on the finish of June.
Van Noten, 65, a grasp of mixing the outdated with the brand new, stated in a press release that the 2025 males’s Spring-Summer time assortment would be the final in his present function. He added that the ladies’s assortment can be designed by his studio.
Van Noten’s successor can be introduced at a later stage, he stated.
FAST FASHION CRACKDOWN BILL TO ENCOURAGE SUSTAINABILITY APPROVED BY FRANCE’S LOWER HOUSE
“I’ve been getting ready for this second for some time, and I really feel it’s time to go away room for a brand new technology of abilities to deliver their imaginative and prescient to the model,” Van Noten stated.
Though he’ll relinquish his function as artistic director, Van Noten will nonetheless be concerned within the style home.
Trend agency Puig acquired a majority share in Van Noten in 2018, with the designer remaining artistic director of the model, which has expanded into magnificence and perfume. Van Noten stated the Puig’s takeover has helped the model “blooming.”
“Like in a backyard, you resolve what to plant; and sooner or later, it continues to flourish,” he stated.
Van Noten graduated from the style design course on the Royal Academy of Wonderful Arts in Belgium in 1981 and debuted his first assortment 5 years later. His first flagship retailer opened in 1989 in Antwerp, the Belgian port metropolis the place he was born in a household of tailors.
Belgian dressmaker Dries Van Noten, pictured right here, introduced Tuesday that he’ll step down from his namesake model on the finish of June. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
As Antwerp developed a popularity of Europe’s capital of cool, Van Noten emerged as a significant artistic power as a part of “The Antwerp Six,” a collective that additionally included Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee.
“Within the early ’80s, as a younger man from Antwerp, my dream was to have a voice in style,” he stated. “Via a journey that introduced me to London, Paris and past, and with the assistance of numerous supportive individuals, that dream got here true.”
Van Noten made his debut on the Paris Trend Week in 1991 with a menswear assortment. His first womenswear present on the French capital metropolis’s catwalks was staged two years later. Ever since, Van Noten has staged two womenswear and two menswear reveals annually.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
His Paris Trend Week’s fall present final month was a visible feast of illusions and contrasts. The sleeves have been minimize to make them virtually two-dimensional, an progressive play on perspective that challenges the viewer’s gaze. Sweaters appeared to animate, embracing their wearers in a dance of material and kind.
This interaction of textures and colours created a dynamic power and poetry that has develop into a Van Noten hallmark.
“Now I wish to shift my focus to all of the issues I by no means had the time for,” Van Noten stated. “I’m unhappy, however on the similar time completely happy.”
