The first time I interviewed Dries Van Noten was in January 2011, after his men’s fashion show in Paris. It was for the Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel, and so since this piece has never been published in English, I decided to resurrect it. There is an amazing story about his grandfather that Dries recounts in the interview, which I have kept close to my heart and bring it up every time I feel dismayed at our gorging consumption habits. I am pasting that paragraph below, but read the whole thing. Link in bio, in stories, and below. “Van Noten comes from a sartorial family. His grandfather worked as a “retourner” in the 1920s. Men who had worn out their suits would come to his atelier, where he would take the garments apart, turn the fabric inside out, and put them back together. Having made a bit of money, in the 1930s he became the first Antwerp based producer of ready-made garments for men. Van Noten’s father had a luxury clothing store in Antwerp, and so it was natural for his young son to enroll into the fashion program at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Upon graduation, Van Noten was one of the six young designers who took their clothes to the London fashion week in 1986, and who forever went down in fashion history as the Antwerp Six.” https://www.sz-mag.com/news/2022/09/dries-van-noten-the-man-who-played-with-color/ #dreisvannoten @driesvannoten