Dries Van Noten
Designer: Dries Van Noten

• “Belgian designer Dries Van Noten sparkled on the second day of Paris fashion week Wednesday with a collection combining men’s tailoring with glamorous feminine touches.” [AFP]
• “Perfectly measured, as is always the case with Van Noten.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “Eschewing the essentialist clichés of men’s fashion, Van Noten sublated the masculine and the feminine in challenging, off-kilter ways.” [Artinfo]
• “Dries Van Noten thinks fashion is far too serious. That’s why he explored his usual menswear-womenswear tailoring this season via the frivolity of ballroom dancing, feathers and the two-some Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.” [AP]
• “Dries Van Noten was, as always, a surprising motley mix of colors and prints that did not disappoint.” [The Cut/New York Magazine]
• “It was a remarkably girlish collection (hello hot pink, feathered, and bejewelled dresses!) for a designer who usually prefers a tomboy aesthetic.” [The Daily Beast]
• “No one puts it together quite the way he does and yesterday’s show was not only packed to the rafters with clothes we loved, but also a masterclass in styling.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “Transported indeed!” [Daily Front Row]
• “A powerful statement about dualism.” [FT.com]
• “Dries Van Noten today offered a boy meets girl mash up which took nothing away from either the masculine or feminine sartorial camps.” [Grazia Daily]
• “The designer continued to explore his winning formula of mixing masculine with feminine, using a clever clash of tailoring with feathers and acid-hued embroidery.” [The Guardian]
• “There’s a whole lot of clothes swapping going on in the world of Dries Van Noten these days. Last month he likened parts of his AW13 menswear collection to pieces a man would borrow from his girlfriend ‘the morning after’, and for his stunning women’s show on Wednesday afternoon at Hôtel de Ville, the wardrobe sharing struck again.” [i-D Online]
• “Dries Van Noten electrified the first full day of the Paris fashion season with a show that was delicate, a touch frivolous–yet profound.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “It all made for a beautiful fashion exploration. But in the real word, when these pieces are pulled apart and added to a woman’s existing wardrobe, they will fit right in without making much of a fuss.” [NOWFASHION]
• “The collection didn’t hang together particularly well, and the spree of feather-dotted coats and dresses seemed at odds with his classy aesthetic.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “The Dries Van Noten Fall 2013 collection was a veritable discourse on why opposites attract.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “It’s always the quiet ones you have to watch.” [Style.com]
• “Supremely elegant.” [Vogue.com]
• “Dries van Noten soared to new heights with a flight of fancy feathers.” [Wmagazine.com]
• “Move over Liz and Dick. Wednesday saw a different example of the marriage of British elegance to ostrich-feathered ostentation. This one came courtesy of Dries Van Noten, who managed to extract the volatility of the original while keeping it utterly captivating.” [WWD]