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
design
I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
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.
designer fashion grab morning night people pins romantic sketches start table throws vision white women
People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.
design
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
almost aspect aware commercial definitely despite enjoyed learned literally owning selling shop spending time
I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.
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.
brings far personal push
I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements.
bad due exhibit good lack sponsored
I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
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.