Dries van Noten interview

[kit]

Interesting article for Dries fans .


http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1425227,00.html


Hope you enjoy !

 

[enak]

Thanks for the article kit
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

Nice article.. I don't usually find myself able to sit through journalist's boring approaches to fashion. I agree with enak; I really did enjoy it.

One comment:

Very few of the many women who wear and love Dries Van Noten's clothes would recognise the man himself if he sat next to them on the bus. He does not go in for paparazzi-friendly celebrity friendships (Donatella, Stella) or spotlit and styled star turns on the catwalk (Ford, Galliano).
He makes beautiful clothes and stages unforgettable fashion shows, and then he pops his head out from backstage for the quickest of blink-and-you'll-miss-it nods to the audience.

This is not because Van Noten is particularly shy. Nor is it because he is unphotogenic - on the contrary, he bears a passing resemblance to George Clooney. It may be because he is Belgian. Belgian fashion designers - compatriots include Ann Demeulemeester and Veronique Branquinho - are united in a reluctance to use personality and lifestyle as leverage for the brand.

Uh, maybe he doesn't WANT to be recognized on the tube? It's got to make your day go more smoothly to not be jumped on here and there...

 

[PoppyAzura]

wonderful article! Thanks kit.

 

[kit]

wonderful article! Thanks kit.

You are all welcome .

 

[luxmode]

Thanks kit!!!

 

[Scott]

No he isn't particularly shy nor does he shun the camera like most of the other's do.

Yeah,some of them are extremely camera shy but I think the reason Belgian's are notorious for this shunning is because when their faces get on camera they feel that it takes the focus off what really matter's. In other words,the personality behind the label often becomes more important than the work itself. I know Branquinho in particular has NEVER given an interview with her face on camera..just her voice.

Thanks Kit,great article.

 

[nqth]

Thanks fot the article, Kit:-)

 

[softgrey]

thanks kit...good article...
i almost feel as though i had lunch with dries myself now...
i imagine that i ordered a nice salad and some fish...

 

[birdofparadise]

I love Dries to pieces, maybe even more than that. I don't know how much of my own wardrobe I've sold off to replace with Dries...but it's almost complete now. He's just 'It' to me, whatever 'It' is. I like design that comes from someone's guts and not from a tired obsession with glamour...which doesn't really exist, how can it?

 

[heykitten]

I love Dries to pieces, maybe even more than that. I don't know how much of my own wardrobe I've sold off to replace with Dries...but it's almost complete now. He's just 'It' to me, whatever 'It' is. I like design that comes from someone's guts and not from a tired obsession with glamour...which doesn't really exist, how can it?

what you said there.