Even if I slowly but surely lost my initial interest in DVN's collections, this one doesn't hurt my eyes for sure. Even feeling kind of peacefully relieved looking at those looks. Things I like among things I like less. Quite a little tiny bonus, these days (remaining optimistic at this minute).
But everytime I read the name of Dries van Noten, I can't not think about Russell Marsh, when he was in charge of the casting there. Can't remember how it happened but I happened to share a ciggie-smoking-break with him in front of the place the show was about to start. I asked him "are they some exclusive model bookings for the show?" and he looked at me with eyes wide open answering "exclusives? No. At Dries?". A few seasons (or even less) later, exclusives became the key word for every show, small or bigger. That sounds like a small anectdotical thingy but the same pattern applies to many aspects of collection shows now.