AUTUMN-WINTER 2025-26
A quiet yet powerful dialogue between past and future.
Photographed by Carlijn Jacobs.
Silhouettes convey imagined stories, the elegance from other eras in the key of today. A constant exchange between tailoring and flou with an eye to contemporary decadence.
“I present my first collection as Creative Director of Dries Van Noten with honour and excitement. Taking place at the Palais Garnier, the collection was created with the venue in mind – the stories these walls might tell and the energy of another time that fills the air.
Here, I imagined women passing through the opera, grabbing fabrics and objects, tying them with a shoelace while on a quest to find the answer to an unknown question. Behind the curtain, where creation and practice happen.”
— Julian Klausner
The gestures around the looks form fuller portraits of these women, who walk through the space as a music composition transitions from an orchestra tuning to a mysterious overlay of instruments and operatic voice in practice together.
“This collection is a celebration of that instinct: of transformation, of personal ritual, of the quiet yet powerful dialogue between past and future, which is at the heart of Dries Van Noten.”
The images are shot by Carlijn Jacobs.
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