Today I heard Radiohead bass guitarist Colin Greenwood play and saw one of my favorite Dries Van Noten collections of all time. At the same time. To be honest, it's still a blissed-out blur. But here's what happened (I think).
The venue was the enormous Halle Freyssinet, a repurposed train depot built in the 1920s. I mean enormous. When the man later identified as Colin Greenwood emerged, he was a speck. Eventually he arrived at a single speaker stack in the center of the hall and started to produce some big noise. Models emerged, to his epic chords, in a signature Dries wardrobe of eclectic prints and embellishments.
This season, the designer explained, was a tribute to Loulou de la Falaise and Tamara Lempicka, both famously creative dressers. From de la Falaise, he got gold and a taste for tuxedos, from Lempicka he got ruffles and exotic detailing, and from his own garden he got flowers—because no Dries collection would be complete without them. These three ideas were interwoven on a vast array of pieces, from embroidered tops stitched with puka shells to exquisite silk jackets printed with tulips, and skirts covered in high-shine metallic ruffles. The finale was an explosion of sculptural frills that included, rumor has it, a dress made using 16 meters of ruffle. If you want to quantify how epic this show was, that's your number. It was a perfect precursor to the Dries Van Noten retrospective exhibition set to open at Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2014—and I didn't think I could be any more excited about that.
Photos courtesy of Style.com | E-mail SISI@OPENINGCEREMONY.US to be notified when the SS14 collection arrives at OC!![]()
The venue was the enormous Halle Freyssinet, a repurposed train depot built in the 1920s. I mean enormous. When the man later identified as Colin Greenwood emerged, he was a speck. Eventually he arrived at a single speaker stack in the center of the hall and started to produce some big noise. Models emerged, to his epic chords, in a signature Dries wardrobe of eclectic prints and embellishments.
This season, the designer explained, was a tribute to Loulou de la Falaise and Tamara Lempicka, both famously creative dressers. From de la Falaise, he got gold and a taste for tuxedos, from Lempicka he got ruffles and exotic detailing, and from his own garden he got flowers—because no Dries collection would be complete without them. These three ideas were interwoven on a vast array of pieces, from embroidered tops stitched with puka shells to exquisite silk jackets printed with tulips, and skirts covered in high-shine metallic ruffles. The finale was an explosion of sculptural frills that included, rumor has it, a dress made using 16 meters of ruffle. If you want to quantify how epic this show was, that's your number. It was a perfect precursor to the Dries Van Noten retrospective exhibition set to open at Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2014—and I didn't think I could be any more excited about that.
Photos courtesy of Style.com | E-mail SISI@OPENINGCEREMONY.US to be notified when the SS14 collection arrives at OC!
