PARIS (AFP) – Fashion great Dries Van Noten will be presenting his very last show in Paris on Saturday to end a glittering 40-year career. The universally respected Belgian, nicknamed the “Flemish master of fashion”, took everyone by surprise when he announced his decision to quit this year. Few fashion designers retire at the age of 66 in good shape and with a healthy business, as he recently told the New York Times.
“I feel it’s time to leave room for a new generation of talents to bring their vision to the brand,” he wrote in an open letter on Instagram. He went on to say that he wanted to enjoy all the things he never had the time to do. On top of his design business, Van Noten will also be leaving behind the beauty and perfume lines that he had created.
“After the men’s show, I’m going to have another email address,” he told the New York Times. “I’m not going to be @driesvannoten any more. I have to find an Instagram name now, because my Instagram is Dries Van Noten, and that is the brand.
It’s strange. That I didn’t see coming.” ‘Flowers come up everywhere’ No details have been released about the spring-summer 2025 show, which will take place in La Courneuve, north of Paris.
It is expected to be a celebration of Dries Van Noten style: garments cut to perfection, clashes of colour and bursts of fabric and print. “I’m a gardener, so flowers automatically come up everywhere: symbolic flowers, simply their colours, or real flowers,” h.
