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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Dries van Noten opens a boutique in Paris



    This rocks! From IHT. (forget suzy's sugary description, the store opening itself is the real news!)



    With its blackamoor statue prancing in the window, its Mongolian rug
    patterned with dragons, its gleaming Japanese cabinet and its Murano
    glass chandelier, it could be just another of the upscale antique
    dealers who line the Left Bank of the Seine.




    But Dries Van Noten's new Paris "home" at 7 Quai Malaquais (opening
    Wednesday) is an expression of the Belgian designer's aesthetic that is
    a paradigm for our fashion times: an original, one-off store in which
    everything from a gleaming marble console to a stalwart 1970s desk
    appeals to the senses.




    "It was a dream opening in this location," said Van Noten, referring
    to the spacious, high-ceilinged former bookstore and its view across
    the river to the Louvre.




    "I wanted it to be extremely luxurious with the atmosphere of a
    neighborhood," he said. "It is something very personal. And I wanted to
    respect the place. Who am I to change it? I want to keep it and
    treasure it and pass it on to the next generation."




    The same could be said for the eclectic objects that Van Noten and
    his partner Patrick Vangheluwe have garnered from flea markets. If the
    sky- blue sofa arrives from America in time, it will join a baroque
    bridge table that once belonged to the aesthete Charles de Bestegui, a
    Chinese bird of paradise patterned rug, Ottoman velvet pillows from the
    1920s, a decorative Italian screen, a Napoleon III boulle table and
    intriguing pieces from Belgium. They include a 1950s abstract painting
    by Marc Mendelson in the same pistachio green as the silk curtains
    surrounding a tiny glass conservatory-cum-boudoir.




    This glamorous boutique mirrors Van Noten's 20-year fashion
    trajectory from ethnic to luxurious. While his designs and prices are
    still relatively down-to-earth by big brand standards, the fabrics are
    deeply researched and the embellishment increasingly dense. Focusing on
    black and white for the summer season, the designer uses them as colors
    with pearl bead embroideries creating patterns of cream and ivory on a
    silken parka.




    Overseeing the final details ? hand-painting a faux marble
    wainscoting to match the console ? Van Noten described his fashion
    approach as mixing unlikely elements, as seen in the store.




    "I like to surround myself with things that I like ? that can teach
    me something and that I have to learn to understand," the designer
    said. "I am most fascinated by things that I don't like at first, that
    you have to learn to appreciate."




    In a world of cookie-cutter boutiques, Van Noten, with one store in
    Antwerp for 20 years and another with Joyce Ma in Hong Kong, is a
    standard bearer for individuality.




    "Honestly, I have a problem with the fashion world ? the rhythm, the
    pre- collection sales early in the season," he said. "I just want to
    show clothes as nice objects and tell my own story."




    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine
  • lowrey
    ventiundici
    • Dec 2006
    • 8383

    #2
    Re: Dries van Noten opens a boutique in Paris

    interesting, will have to stop by when I'm there in march
    "AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."

    STYLEZEITGEIST MAGAZINE | BLOG

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    • laika
      moderator
      • Sep 2006
      • 3787

      #3
      Re: Dries van Noten opens a boutique in Paris

      I'm sure it will be exquisite, just like his clothes. [U] I am so obsessed with Dries these days....
      ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #4
        Re: Dries van Noten opens a boutique in Paris



        [quote user="laika"]I'm sure it will be exquisite, just like his clothes. [U] I am so obsessed with Dries these days....
        [/quote]



        Dries is awesome [Y] Such a class act.

        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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