
Simon Dooney, the former creative director of Barney’s, once described Dries Van Noten’s effect as “transformative,” going on to say that wearing a Dries piece was a way to become “a more interesting, enigmatic, intriguing person.” In his Fall/Winter 2024 collection, the last designed by Dries himself before his retirement, the Belgian designer strived to blur the lines between precious and pragmatic.



“It’s quite a strong woman, a woman who dares to cut her own fringe. She has an attitude, she enjoys contradictions, she wants to be loved but she wants control.”
–Dries Van Noten referring to this season’s muse.