DRIES VAN NOTEN , the great brand handbag designer in the world
DRIES VAN NOTEN , the great brand handbag designer in the world
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Part of the so-called Antwerp Six who graduated from the city’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the start of the 1980s, Dires Van Noten showed the world that Belgian fashion handbag was something to be excited about. Each of the Six was different: Ann Demeulemeester specialized in a punk minimalism, Walter Van Beirendonck played
With Pop art, while Van Noten’s name was associated with a discreet elegance that gained him a devoted following.
If Van work in the 1990s had something of the deconstruction popular among Belgian designers of the time, a certain romance has emerged as a typical Van Noten theme Using sumptuous fabrics and prints for the summer handbag collection, his designs gently flatter women of all ages and body shapes.
Van Noten’s world is one without ego the 2014 retrospective at the Paris Musee des arts decoratifs is a case in point. Rather than being a straight forwards survey of his own work, the designer used the exhibition to explore his inspirations. The result of young collection handbag was distinctly Van Noten: considered, magical, unmissable.