Dries Van Noten S/S 2020 Paris

[DK92]

So happy for mister Lacroix!

 

[dior_couture1245]

Maybe I’m just tired of everything, but I’m not obsessed...and I’m Lacroix’s #1 fan.

There’s something about Dries that never does anything for me. I think ever since the sort of breakthrough collection of his around 2010 (?) - that one show at the Hôtel de Ville, mixing the leopard and the army green and the florals - that was a fantastic show, but ever since then, it’s been that same formula again and again from Dries.

So while I love the Lacroixisms, through the lens of the van Noten brand...it just feels a bit deflated and not particularly joyful. It’s the same typical oversized parkas, everything is big and roomy, it’s always layered a particular way, everything is styled a certain way with sunglasses...I don’t know...it just feels stilted to me.

Lacroix on his own makes you giddy...it’s pure imagination and fantasy and playfulness and beauty and the most inconceivable feats of craftsmanship. It’s bursting with energy.

Dries is too moody and dour for the pairing to make much sense for me.

 

[jeanclaude]

Not my taste (although I like some brocade coats); but the collaboration between them is quite interesting.

But...I prefer much more last Dries collection. That was pure sophistication!

 

[Lola701]

There’s something about Dries that never does anything for me. I think ever since the sort of breakthrough collection of his around 2010 (?) - that one show at the Hôtel de Ville, mixing the leopard and the army green and the florals - that was a fantastic show

While my love affair with Dries started with SS2009, that fall 2010 collection you’re talking about just killed me!
It was pure heaven! That season I had a huge bonus at work and I nearly spend 2 hours at his Quai Malaquais boutique...

Even if I will always love Dries, it’s true that nothing will ever top his SS2009 and FW2010 (even if I have a soft spot for SS13 and SS10).

 

[Ruito]

Dries’s clothes usually goes through size 44 (I think it’s 10 for UK and 12 for US)....But you’ll need to go to the boutique for that...Even if I think that piece is safe enough for the retailers.

btw Do you know if someone asks for a specific garment, they'll get it to us? Because there are a lot of pieces that I see on his runways that I never find in stores.

 

[aracic]

Not that impressed overall, but I'm a big sucker for prints so I'd wear most of this collection without doubt. It's definitely more interesting than most of the silly bunch we've seen this month anyway, so I love them for that! The final look looks like a dream... so beautiful.

 

[Fiercification]

THIS is a collection. Finally we get to see Dries out of his ever so classy comfort zone of recent seasons. I didn't even know he collaborated with Lacroix until I saw the final runway image , but of course it makes sense. His sensibility is all over but well worked into all of these looks. Can't even really begin to dissect individual looks as it's all pretty impressive.

Sorry if you're a jaded fashion gal or man dem and don't appreciate this, but for the moment this breaks my fashion blues .

 

[Lola701]

btw Do you know if someone asks for a specific garment, they'll get it to us? Because there are a lot of pieces that I see on his runways that I never find in stores.

It depends on what you mean by « stores ». You’ll likely find the pieces you want in Dries’s own stores than in department stores. And there’s always stuff coming in his stores so yes, if you ask to the boutiques for a specific piece, they’ll hold it for you...
Sometimes, it’s necessary to pre-order at some brands but Dries always produce what he shows. This collection is a little bit more precious tho. I think the extended version might be interesting too.

 

[Salvatore]

Dries’s clothes usually goes through size 44 (I think it’s 10 for UK and 12 for US)....But you’ll need to go to the boutique for that...Even if I think that piece is safe enough for the retailers.

I've been to the main boutique in Antwerp and it is glorious ! I purchased a few things there and they even sent me some items when I needed some things for a special event. I will definitely stop in because I need that jacket and hope there will be a size that can fit me because my shoulders are broad. Cannot wait !

 

[Salvatore]

Ufff, this is beautiful ! I love this collection and wish he would get back to this feeling with the menswear. I need this jacket too !

Photo: Vogue.com

 

[Not Plain Jane]

He knows how to make clothes that women actually want to wear. But the clothing is beautiful, stunning, magical! It's not just about pragmatics. He understands BOTH aspects of dress, the importance of aesthetics and wearability. It seems like a lot of designers just don't.

 

[YohjiAddict]

Alessandro would do well in taking some notes on how to sober up from that mess he's made at Gucci. This is exhuberant but not clownish. Sometimes Dries can be a bit too tasteful but he's encountered a counterbalance in Lacroix wild eclecticism. All his competitors were truly left in the dust, so many memorable looks in one show: Adut's look, the iridescent red/gold coat, the brocade dress with a bejeweled shoulder, the black A-line dress worn with bedazzled cross stilettos, that stunning military coat on Sora, the bright blue brocade looks and of course, that shocking pink jacket...I will go to bed with a smile on my face.

 

[disco54]

Glam Rock meets New Romantics , I like this merger.

 

[mistress_f]

This is so beautiful. Dries always deliver, but with the addition of mr. Lacroix... absolutely heavenly. I missed all of this in fashion: creative, playful, colorful, eccentric but NOT gimmicky, so beautifully detailed - the prints, the embroideries, everything is wonderful here. I've largely lost interest in fashion nowadays but this just makes me happy

 

[AD011620]

Love it... again, thank God for ParisFW!

 

[gossiping]

soooooo good
amazing.

 

[Ruito]

A collection for the ages!

 

[StoneSkipper]

I feel like the styling kind of brings this down, a little bit? It's very overwhelming and busy at points, and not in a good way - I feel like their styles just don't blend as well as they could have because of this.

But what isn't brought down by styling is just transcendent. Dries has been soaring as of late, and Lacroix is such a talented, sensible craftmaster who deserves far better than what he's gotten. It's such a needed, very precise dose of decadence that we all needed.

 

[donyan]

hands down my favourite collection of the season, nothing comes close.

 

[eugenius]

This is fine and all, and very pretty, but I can't help but feel that a lot of this will either not make it into production at all, or be heavily translated for retail, which I don't associate w/ Dries. I mean, the billowing pants with ruffles, in pink...really? I hope he doesn't go down that route with his future collections..(unlikely, but we never know..)

On another note, the oversized parka, in pink, with the black embroidery? That, you don't see everyday, so that one can stay.