EXHIBITIONS

DRIES VAN NOTEN. M– — USEUM – LES ARTS DECORATIFS

By Eddie Musson | 01:51

Dries van Noten. Museum “Les Arts decoratifs”

Belgian beauty by Dries van Noten. Fabulously beautiful, fantastically unusual and extremely easy!

Please, figure me out I don’t want to say –fashion, I really think this is beauty and marvelously.

I can’t describe emotions concerning of this exhibition which you can see till 31 of August 2014 in Paris, Museum “Les Arts decoratifs”

Initiated by family tradition of the textile culture, Dries Van Noten is studying fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and graduated in 1981. In 1986 he founded his own independent brand, supported by Christine Mathys and Patrick Vangheluwe. His first men’s collection presented in London in 1986 with Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee, “six Antwerp” constituting an informal group of young Belgian designers become synonymous with avant-garde of fashion.

The aesthetic vocabulary Dries Van Noten is identified immediately. The fashion designer, based on a mixing images of yesterday and today and cultures from elsewhere resurrects through its collections, always a memory, a memory or the trace of an intimate journey. Dries Van Noten can develop its collections from fantasized travel, exotic places he brings out of his imagination and yet borrow from different ethnic and folk traditions of India, China, Africa or Mexico. The images bring then invented his textile extreme refinement, both in the choice of printed designs in weaves and the choice of materials, such as the women’s collection Spring-Summer 2010 or that of the Spring-Summer 2014.

His shows can testify as much of an emotion felt at a painting or work of an artist. The works of Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Peyton led to direct inspirations. Any woman Fall-Winter 2009 declines the work of the first, while the Spring-Summer collection for men of the same year is built around a single table of Elizabeth Peyton: “Democrats are more beautiful” (2001). The reference may be less immediate and more a matter of the intimate and evocation. Dries Van Noten can not hold a color, a gesture or atmosphere. The power and strength of the red in Mark Rothko, the peculiar blue light of the grotto of Capri or fragility evoked the butterfly can be the starting point of a collection. Because the sources of inspiration Dries exceed the hierarchy of the arts and vernacular culture is to him as rich influences. His creations eat these contrasts and the duality is another constant of the vocabulary of Dries Van Noten.Often the creative use of human oppositions – woman to push the limits of the wardrobe: the connoted as feminine fabrics such as lace dress such man while masculine cuts are declined in women collections.