Dries Van Noten’s Alphabet of Fashion |
January 3rd, 2018 |
What makes Dries Van Noten’s clothes so coveted by his pockets of fans around the globe, is the wide variety of inspiration he collides together, from each of these corners.
“For me, other cultures have always been a starting point, ” he recently told Tim Blanks at a Business of Fashion forum. “But I never took things very literal. Quite often, we take one element that we like…and mix it to be something very personal.”
But in an age where the line between cultural appropriation and homage can be fine in the eyes of critics and consumers, he admits referencing other cultures has become “more difficult now” despite it being the “alphabet of his fashion”. Instead Van Noten is moving towards the art world as a springboard from which to create.
For his most recent SS18 collection, which will land at Poepke in coming weeks, Van Noten referenced Picasso’s “Les deux demoiselles faisant leur toilette.” For this, Picasso constructed a collage of found materials, largely consisting of wallpapers featuring varying motifs, rather than his usual medium of paint. So just like the cultural references Van Noten is used to stirring together, he became captivated by Picasso’s haphazard mixes.
Van Noten took elements from the prints to create an assemblage of motifs through the decades – from surrealist lips to forties wallpaper, sixties couture flowers and bourgeois scarves straight from the seventies.
For more of Van Noten’s conversation with Tim Blanks, see below, and for more Dries Van Noten at Poepke, you can click here.
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Dries Van Noten – His career in two books. |
November 16th, 2017 |
Those who are fans of Dries Van Noten, know about his garden. It his refuge, his inspiration, his well and his source of sustenance. But American author Hanya Yanagihara who recently profiled Van Noten for the New York Times ‘The Greats 2017’ issue, found that for the designer with the ‘painterly eye’ this inspiration sometimes draws on the melancholic:
“Van Noten says that he and his longtime partner in both business and life, Patrick Vangheluwe, often joke that they’ll someday write a book titled ‘The Depressed Gardener,’ about all the things that can go wrong in a garden, no matter the allowances made for changing climates, unpredictable weather, rapacious insects and on and on. You plan and plan, he says, and something always goes awry anyway. The depressed gardener knows that. He also knows, however, that it is simply what happens when you try to control what cannot be controlled — to be a depressed gardener is to live in a state of constant humility. ”
A fitting metaphor for Van Noten’s career as a fashion designer Yanagihara points out.
And although ‘The Depressed Gardener’ is the book that Van Noten would like to write, here at Poepke we are excited to announce the arrival of Van Noten’s 2017 book in two parts; a retrospective of his 100 collections.
“The books delve into the fashion designer’s work and aesthetic vocabulary, documenting and capturing the spirit of each collection with more than 2000 pictures detailing everything from the runway to the backstage, from the invitations to the scenography and uncommon choice of locations.”
Books spanning a career that might even make the Depressed Gardener smile.
Dries Van Noten 1 – 100 is available to purchase in store at Poepke now.
To view pieces from Dries Van Noten’s 100th collection, click here
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August 14th, 2017 |
Dries Van Noten is a designer that has always had a cult following. The fact that his recent AW17/18 runway show was his 100th is a testament to that. Currently, Poepke is celebrating this landmark moment with new arrivals from his latest collection. Featuring celebrated prints from seasons past, each have been given a new direction with overprinting or embroidery in geometric shapes and vivid colours – think electric blue, mustard and fluorescent orange.
The collection simultaneously toasts where the label has been, and where it is headed. As Dries himself said: “This show, number one hundred, is something that makes you think about the past and the future. We sat, we talked – it was important to us, to go back to the essence, to examine the DNA and decide what we hope to take with us to the future.”
You can view the new arrivals, currently in store here.
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Dries |
May 12th, 2017 |
Screening at this year’s Sydney Film Festival is an intimate portrait of Dries Van Noten as seen through the lens of documentary filmmaker, Reiner Holzemer.
In a world of trends and globalisation, Dries has retained his independence working with his long-term partner in life and business, Patrick Vangheluwe, for almost 30 years. Notoriously private, Dries opened his elegant home to director Holzemer’s camera. The film also takes in extravagant fashion shows, visits to his dedicated embroiderers and the studio where embellished silks and fabrics of every hue are displayed. Dries’s creative process and distinctive approach to fabrics and prints is lovingly detailed in this intimate documentary.
For ticketing information and session times, check the Sydney Film Festival site.
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March 16th, 2017 |
Each day, for the next 100 days, one video of a past Dries Van Noten fashion show will be posted in random order, in the ‘Silent Archive’ section of the Dries Van Noten website.
Here is the link!
http://www.driesvannoten.com/silentarchive/
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January 10th, 2017 |
Linda Farrow for Dries Van Noten sunglasses now in store at Poepke.
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October 5th, 2016 |
Our final delivery of Dries Van Noten’s collection has arrived, along with shoes. In store now.
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August 18th, 2016 |
Our second delivery from Dries Van Noten has arrived.
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July 20th, 2016 |
Our first arrivals from Dries Van Noten’s new collection will be available in store from 10am this Thursday 21 July.
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March 22nd, 2016 |
Our final delivery of Dries Van Noten for the season has arrived and will be available from 10am tomorrow.
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March 9th, 2016 |
We have all drooled over the latest Dries Van Noten presentation at Paris Fashion Week, now enjoy this delightful interview between Tim Blanks and Dries himself.
Click here for more from Business of Fashion.
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March 3rd, 2016 |
Our next delivery of Dries Van Noten’s collection, plus shoes from the collection, is now in store.
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January 21st, 2016 |
New season begins with our first delivery from Dries Van Noten.
Evoking Katharine Hepburn era Hollywood, the collection features jacquards, brocade, sequins and tattoo-like patterns in bold shades of purple, yellow ochre, kingfisher blue and watermelon.
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September 18th, 2015 |
Our third and final delivery of this season’s Dries Van Noten is here.
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August 20th, 2015 |
Our second delivery from Dries Van Noten’s opulent collection is in store.
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