The tsunami and earthquakes that shook Japan in March have spurred an outpouring of support from designers, retailers, and well-wishers worldwide. The latest to lend a hand with a new T-shirt, the proceeds from which will be donated to the Red Cross: Dries Van Noten.“The images from Japan were numbing, so truly shocking that not [...]

After trekking from Hong Kong to Shanghai, Joyce Hong Kong’s celebratory 40th anniversary exhibition has arrived in Paris. And considering the show includes archived looks from over 50 designers on the store’s stock list, like Lanvin, Stella McCartney, and Alexander McQueen, it’s one to see. “Joyce was a pioneer of bringing luxury to Asia. And [...]

It’s been a golden year for David Bowie references on the runways. Dries Van Noten and Lanvin’s Lucas Ossendrijver channeled DB’s Thin White Duke persona at the Fall 2011 men’s shows, as did Richard Nicoll at his Spring women’s presentation back in September. And the pop star’s 1983 flick, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, proved inspirational [...]

It’s a new year, and what better way to wipe the slate clean than with a crisp white men’s shirt? For Spring, designers focused on classic sportswear, and they put that perennial favorite, the button-up, front-row and center. At Akris and Dries Van Noten, seriously oversized shirts—worn as a day dress and over a sequined [...]

2010 may go down in fashion history as the year we reclaimed our gym clothes. Designers embraced the mélange sweatshirt, which almost immediately became the piece to have. In Europe, Dries Van Noten kicked off the trend with his elegantly urbane Fall ‘10 show. So did Isabel Marant, a longtime sweatshirt enthusiast, who gussied hers [...]

Bergdorf Goodman threw a cocktail party to celebrate the opening of Dries Van Noten’s men’s and women’s shops at the Fifth Avenue retailer last night. “We’ve been dreaming and scheming for a long time,” Linda Fargo, the store’s senior VP, said of the work involved in getting the Belgian designer’s wares into Bergdorf’s. Indeed, Van [...]

Since he opened his women’s store in Paris two and a half years ago, Dries Van Noten has been dreaming of opening a men’s shop. But, rather than some big empty white space, he was looking for quirk, with elements he could build on. He got his wish a few months ago when a building [...]

Call me crazy, but do I detect a hint of mythology in the Spring footwear we’re seeing right now? I need to consult the Oracle at Delphi to be sure, but there was something a little Grecian about the gorgeous, cut-out heels at Dries (left)—they revealed just a slip of the heel right where the [...]

Noticed in Paris: a city in the midst of a full-on love affair with New York. We’ve always been big boosters of the Big Apple ourselves, but looks like the City of Light is feeling the NYC vibe at the moment, too. Consider this: On the 5th, Printemps joins forces with V Magazine—which recently put [...]

Dries Van Noten’s Spring ‘11 collection hit the runway today and built on the ultra-wearable collection he showed for Fall. But as much as it picked up some of the threads of what came before, there was one element that felt brand-new for Van Noten’s womenswear: denim. (Historians, correct me if I’m wrong, but I [...]