Earlier this 12 months, Dries Van Noten sadly introduced he was stepping away from his eponymous label. Lastly, the Belgian label introduced Julian Klausner has been promoted to Artistic Director.
In a press release made in March, the Belgian clothier, 65, stated: “Within the early ‘80s, as a younger man from Antwerp, my dream was to have a voice in trend. By a journey that introduced me to London, Paris and past, and with the assistance of numerous supportive folks, that dream got here true.
“Now I wish to shift my focus to all of the issues I by no means had the time for. I’m unhappy, however on the identical time blissful. I really feel it’s time to depart room for a brand new technology of skills to carry their imaginative and prescient to the model.”
Six long-awaited months after Dries Van Noten introduced his final assortment, Julian Klausner has been named Artistic Director, answerable for ladies’s and males’s collections.
Klausner graduated from Brussels’s esteemed La Cambre in 2016 and went on to start his profession as a Junior Designer at Maison Margiela. In August 2018, he joined Dries Van Noten as a Womenswear Designer. After working alongside Dries Van Noten for a number of years, Klausner “represents a pure connection between the previous and the long run”, in keeping with a press release revealed by the posh label.
Dries Van Noten added: “I’ve full confidence in Julian’s creativity and imaginative and prescient. He isn’t solely a gifted designer but in addition a transparent option to take over after my departure. His deep understanding of the model and its values will guarantee a seamless transition and a shiny future.”
Dries Van Noten
Van Noten stated he’ll stay concerned within the Home that he “treasures a lot”.
Marc Puig, Chairman and Chief government officer of Puig (which owns a majority curiosity in Dries Van Noten), stated of the transfer: “We respect Dries’ want to step apart, after an distinctive 38-year profession in trend. It’s a distinct honour for Puig to now be entrusted with carrying his legacy into the long run, and a novel accountability we are going to treasure as a brand new and thrilling chapter opens for each Dries and the model.”
Dries Van Noten was probably the most commercially profitable of the much-revered group of trend designers labelled the ‘Antwerp Six’ who graduated from town’s Royal Academy of High quality Arts within the Eighties. It contains Ann Demeulemeester, Marina Yee, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene, and Walter Van Beirendonck. With out compromising his designs or model DNA, he was by no means industrial, whereas remaining wearable for the patron who appreciated nice design and grown-up fabrications and finishes.
Every season was a brand new web page, turning over to disclose a surrealist blue hand or a collaboration with inside designer Verner Panton, but nonetheless recognisably Van Noten. Van Noten has by no means relied on his identify to promote. He’s an distinctive tastemaker and has relied on folks wanting to purchase into his imaginative and prescient and world.
Handing the reigns over to Klausner, the newly appointed Artistic Director will current his first ladies’s assortment on 5 March throughout Paris Vogue Week. His first males’s runway is scheduled for June 2025.
