Males’s Put on Lovers Mourn the Retirement of Dries Van Noten
Josh Peskowitz, designer, Feit footwear: “Trend isn’t the identical as know-how or useful resource extraction. Manufacturers develop too quick, with the expectation that they’ll preserve scaling up. However our enterprise is constructed on intangibles. The true mystique is with the ability to construct a world individuals need to inhabit. Dries did that for a extremely very long time.”
Matthew Schneier, restaurant critic New York journal (and former trend reporter for The New York Occasions): “When, in my salad days, I used to be attempting to determine what my model was whereas pretending I’d all the time identified, I discovered Dries made the garments I really needed. His was additionally the present you needed to attend, the shop in Paris that was everybody’s first cease the minute they dropped their luggage.”
Bruce Pask, senior editorial director, Neiman Marcus: “You’d bounce in a taxi and say ‘Quai Malaquais, stat!’ The shop is that this complete imaginative and prescient of a retail expertise, with lacquer partitions and velvet sofas and actual artwork. It displays his imaginative and prescient of what males’s put on could be — private and experimental, with off colours and clashing patterns, however grounded in fundamentals. Khakis with a trench coat belt that wraps across the waist, an unconstructed cotton jacket. A lot as you might love the fantasy of it, you possibly can interpret his designs in sensible methods.”
Mr. Schneier: “Now all the posh manufacturers have compulsory artwork treasures to point out off of their shops. Dries quietly hung a van Dyck portrait in his.”
Mr. Pask: “He understands emotion and storytelling in trend, and through the years he has created this narrative arc from memorable moments. Nobody who was there’ll ever overlook his males’s put on present of 2016, when he confirmed on the raked stage of the Palais Garnier opera home.”
Mr. Berkowitz: “Visitors filed in by means of the backstage space and sat within the wings onstage, going through out towards the home. The curtain was open on this stunning gilded auditorium. You waited in silence, after which instantly the fashions walked throughout the proscenium by means of your line of imaginative and prescient — magical.”
Mr. Patner: “In all probability the one reveals that ever introduced me to tears had been Yohji Yamamoto and Dries.”
