Thanks to Dries, Antwerp and its fashion school became famous worldwide.
His Parisian boutique looks like an antique bookstore, designed like a house where people live:  beautiful cloths, interesting objects…  One is under a spell and feels like browsing around.
This discrete designer cultivates differences, beautiful objects and flowers, colour clashes, optical obsessions, and prints borrowed from vintage dresses. His subtle creations, away far from all codes and borders, have the refinement of self-indulged luxury, and its rarity.
Born in a family of tailors, Dries Van Noten was fed with fashion from the youngest age: his grandfather opened the way with the very first menswear store in Antwerp, and his father, who owned a multi luxurious label store, introduced him to the fine world of fashion shows early on.
Dries Van Noten chose to enter the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at 18.
He quickly became one of the best of the Belgium fashion school, where rigour, discretion, even sometimes austerity reign. And yet the Antwerp style allows for audacity and freedom.
Dries Van Noten mixes ethnic influences and technical mastery, feline colours and graphic lines. A lover of beautiful fabrics and refined superimpositions, he labours artfully to create purity and simplicity. The designer loves to surprise with his personal vision of aestheticism: optical prints and precious embroidery, chic batiks and vintage pearls, strong colours that are slightly worn, and simple lines mixed with gold and silver form his timeless silhouettes.