The well-known Belgian designer Dries Van Noten will step down as inventive director of his vogue model this summer seasonintroduced in the present day.
Van Noten, 65, will depart after the upcoming Paris Vogue Week menswear present in June. Recognized for his luxurious colours and avant-garde kinds, Van Noten started as a part of the so-called Antwerp Six who fashioned on the metropolis's Royal Academy of Wonderful Arts within the 1980s. Different members included the daring designers Walter Van Beirendonck and Ann Demeulemeester.
In his assertion, Van Noten acknowledged that his profession had been “a dream come true.”
“I wish to deal with all of the issues I by no means had time for. I'm unhappy, however on the similar time completely satisfied,” she mentioned. Van Noten added that a substitute will probably be introduced “in the end” and that his studio staff will probably be answerable for the subsequent womenswear assortment.
DVN, as it’s recognized, offered a majority stake in its model to Spanish conglomerate Puig in 2018, however remained chairman and artistic director. The model has added magnificence and fragrance traces, and expanded into e-commerce for the reason that Puig acquisition.