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Dries Van Noten Spring 2014 Menswear

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  • Dries Van Noten Dries Van Noten

This spring, Dries Van Noten highlighted three key elements for his collection, which are flowers, drums, and gold. The idea of this collection comes from his preparatory visits to his retrospective next year at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Dries Van Noten has been researching more in-depth towards the museum’s archives and found a highly interest to pretty flowers prints. Even more obsessed because they were elements of menswear over the centuries. He then found out more about men and flowers and it turns out that very variant type like Louis Seize to Jimi Hendrix worn flowers.

From the far depth research where he found current obsession for flowers, the designer started plotting a story from eighteenth-century rococo to freshly scan cut blossom that has been transformed with a certain technical to results a form of silhouettes and fabrications. There was surf shorts (favourites item of the season) and tailored trousers, summer’s relaxed tank top over slim pants, matches out with military coats and robes. All was presented in translucent shirts and heavy prints image and not to forget in dark tone yet look very rich and of course full printed flowers.

The setting of his show was wraps full of shimmering gold sheets that hung as a backdrop. It felt like mid-summer night dreams with a very strong and dark palette of floral pattern everywhere. Both sets and prints were connecting one and another like dark summer flowery stage. With emphasizing the return of embroidery, as a muted but yet very rich decoration in belts, coats, and so on.

Prints were combined from a variety sources and eras, ranging from ornaments of tapestries of gardens and animals, to flower blossoms, which all wraps around like a golden botanical gardens. All male models walked down in the runway to rich sounds of drums in order to balance the feminine look of this season Dries Van Noten collection. He also added that the use of one instrument would break away the heaviness of the flowery looks in this show. A very nice opening before his retrospective show, curious anyone? (Text Dinta Jakile)