• Nationality
  Belgian
• Main
  Nationalestraat 6, 2000 Antwerp
• Website
  www.driesvannoten.be

SUMMARY
Recognised widely as a masterful designer, throughout his career he has striven for liberalism and the openness of authenticity. For him, fashion has never appeared constrictive rather the creation and production of his clothes have in his own zeitgeist from a tailor’s hands compared to the shapeshifting of a typified fashion designer. The cyclic seasns challenge him to produce garments for both men and women using the most luxurious (but not opulent) fabrics, soft structured tailoring and combining this with his incredible enthusiasm for developing his own prints. He widely uses his schedule to create digital silk prints, often working laboriously in variegating the degrees and gradients of motifs such as plane shapes, florals with short sleeved shift dresses in a wide array of a majestic colour paliette. Unafraid of women’s clothes, he integrates men’s tailored pieces for women and ‘clashing’ them to create a new, fresh proportion. Citing Far East references such as the Ikat print, batik skirt and traditional sarong his women’s clothes do not conform to a slender more belle du jour silhouette, rather embraces feminine proportions and beautifully translating them using delicate handcrafted beading and embroidery.

HIGHLIGHTS
Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp; 1980

First showed in London with fellow students; 1987

Opens own Antwerp store ‘Het Modepaleis’; 1989

Awarded by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA); 2008

Window installation at French Ministry of Culture and Communication; Oct 2008 – Jan 2009