Posts tagged with 'Dries Van Noten':

Hiroyuki Horihata didn't quite reinvent the wheel, but he did tackle another classic: the traditional kimono. Horihata created a version of the traditional garment called nagagi—meaning "to wrap around"— for Matohu, the Tokyo label he designs with his wife Makiko Sekiguchi.
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An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx recently rang in ten years of partnership under their label A.F. Vandevorst. Lauded as the "new guard" of Belgian superstars by America Vogue's Anna Wintour, the Belgian design duo have produced some of the most varied and creative ready-to-wear collections and costumes over the last ten years—giving fashion a structural and intelligent aesthetic to keep up with.  read more »

Designers at Paris Fashion Week have born the burden of making sense out of a season that, thus far, lacked a cohesive creative direction. With the dark cloud of the economic forecast hovering overhead, the mood was mirrored by cranky editors, steel gray skies and sputtering rain that weighed on the spirit of the week. But amid this gloom, several collections showed off bright signs—a welcome message from Paris to the world.

Gareth Pugh decamped from London to show in Paris for the first time. His impeccably produced, Edwardian-influenced collection pulled in a wide international audience to witness his over-the-top showmanship—a worthy gamble that created an entertaining diversion at the start of the week.  read more »

Fashion and sports have always been undeniably attracted to each other, and more so now than ever before. Setting out to explore the "creative and fluid" relationship of the two segments, the Victoria and Albert Museum will launch a new exhibition on August 5 called Fashion V Sport.
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"The world is getting worse and worse. My message is: let's be happy!" Coming from the usually gloomy Yohji Yamamoto, the statement sounded both wise and uplifting—after you got over the initial shock of hearing it from him. In fact, Yamamoto's message perfectly sums up the mood of the Paris men's collections for summer 2009. The byword of the moment is "lightness," in both literal and metaphorical terms. Gone are the days of dark romanticism, it's time to welcome the era of casual dressing up as a way to lift the spirit.

This shift in moods was nowhere as dramatic as at Yohji and Comme des Garçons. The first embroidered silly little slogans and loving phrases on the sleeves and collars of loose, deconstructed jackets; the second decked a cast of skinny, punky boys in shrunken jackets and flowing aprons, suggesting a priest-like but eminently funny look for the summer to come.  read more »