Permanent Crime

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2010 (ruined by a permanent marker)

I love my vintage-new Dries shirt. Olive green with thin black outlines, seemingly hand-drawn onto the seam's edges. Painfully, someone took this aesthetic approach literally today. And accidentally ruined it with a permanent marker.
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Anacrusis

1. Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2011
2. Tom Ford Unknown collection

Same same but different. As the men's robe seems to be a Tom Ford signature, I've decided to investigate further on this (mostly bare chested) subject. Results will supposedly be shared here.
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Amuse Gueule

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2011

This season Dries was all about the shoes. Blue velvet. Green snake. Black fur. Plexiglas heels and op-art socks. As I won't be wearing any of them, I'll bake red velvet cupcakes today.
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Image credits Style.com

Double Feature

Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011 vs. 'N Sync

Good things come in pairs. Who didn't dream of being Justin Timberlake back in the days when we were young and baggy jeans with skin tight zipper tops were le dernier cri?
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Trojan Horse

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2011

Set in an ancient-mystical scenery, eternal remembrance might not apply to this collection's pieces. The hype of the season left indifferent. Only noteworthy with its fur-lined lapels and colour-block trousers. Je suis desolée.
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Image credits Catwalking

Sex In The Woods

1. Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2007 & Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2010
2. Raf Simons Fall/Winter 2002 & Rag & Bone Fall/Winter 2010

I am still turned on by the idea of creating a forest worker. To make it easier attaining this look I have compiled a few hard-on looks from my vast fashion archive. Work it!
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Somehow Ethereal

Collage Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011

The reason why I feel attracted to acid denim might probably be its sinister resemblance to a profane thing such as clouds. Carrying a moment of childish astonishment. And at the same time referring to a political ethos.
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The Unfeasible

Book 6+ Antwerp Fashion

The beauty of article scans. When I hold this publication in my hands and flipped through its pages I instantly knew: I want it. I need it. The disillusion: It's not available anymore. So if anyone wants to shake it off those dusty shelves, here I am. Willing to take loving care of it.
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Fluorescent Minds

Top Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011
Bottom Glowing Arrow

Fluorescent clothes are the next big thing after the plastic raincoat. Trust me. Remember the glow-in-the-dark Helmut Lang trousers? Here you go. Optical light refraction is the only acceptable colour.
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Whitewashed

Dries van Noten Spring/Summer 2011

Unfortunately too save. Too harmonious. Too tone in tone. Where did the risk-taking go, where the deeply admired Dries clash? Did he surrender himself to pastels? But maybe this has been his manoeuvre. Killing us softly.
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Image credits Catwalking

Trending Topics Fight

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2010 vs. Camel

I am in love with every single piece from that collection. And I realized: I need this double-breasted jacket. In the colour camel. I know it's hip and trendy but I have to surrender to it. It's hip and trendy in a good way.
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Image credits Catwalking, Google

Best Of Dries van Noten

Dries van Noten Fall/Winter 2001 - Spring/Summer 2011

The men's skirt. Neon plastic coats. Furry leopard print. He did it all. And he always did it well. No one can copy a Dries van Noten look. And no one is able to clash and combine contradictory patterns with such an implicitness. The Dries principle is based upon logic and intuition. A self-repetitive mechanism that deserves to be admired.
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Image credits Catwalking