Dries Van Noten’s AW26 show took place at Lycée Carnot, a secondary school in Paris which previously hosted the brand way back in 2009. When creative director Julian Klausner visited last summer, the experience brought back the feelings of being a teenager: the “vulnerability and confidence, confusion and clarity”, the sense of a work in progress, in permanent becoming,” according to the show notes. This intense emotional landscape is brought to life in the collection, along with the influence of two Flemish still-life paintings from the 1680s : “Two Peaches and a Butterfly on a Stone Plinth” and “Flowers and Insects”.
Courtesy of Dries Van Noten
