From The Archive: A Look Again At Dries Van Noten’s Designs In The Pages Of British Vogue

Many of the clothes that will get exhibited at vogue month won’t ever depart the catwalk. Only one model is made, to be worn as soon as, by one mannequin. It’s, in spite of everything, the boring stuff that almost all usually sells. However Dries Van Noten is likely one of the few designers to have produced all of his present items season after season, which I feel is indicative of the generosity through which he has all the time designed. His garments – colour-rich, spirit-raising – give tangible which means to folks’s lives, worldly and complicated. That’s as a result of magnificence, for Van Noten, appears an ethical obligation, which he tended to for 5 many years with simply as a lot care and creativeness as his gardens within the Belgian countryside. Since launching his namesake label in 1986, the work of the designer – who is likely one of the founding members of The Antwerp Six – has appeared in British Vogue numerous occasions in shoots with the likes of Nadine Ijewere, Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel and Juergen Teller. Following the unhappy information of Van Noten’s retirement from the model that bears his identify, revisit a few of his most beautiful garments within the pages of Vogue, right here.