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Dries Van Noten

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One of the ‘Antwerp Six,’ the third-generation designer has built a profitable fashion business, known for its intelligent prints, on his own terms.

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News & Analysis

Watch All the Talks from VOICES 2020, BoF’s Annual Gathering for Big Thinkers

Fashion insiders including Remo Ruffini, Dries Van Noten, Samira Nasr, Virgil Abloh and José Neves were joined by experts from the wider worlds of science, technology, politics, economics and more to reflect on a year of global crisis and what’s next for the fashion industry and beyond.

News & Analysis

Watch All the Talks from VOICES 2020, BoF’s Annual Gathering for Big Thinkers

Fashion insiders including Remo Ruffini, Dries Van Noten, Samira Nasr, Virgil Abloh and José Neves were joined by experts from the wider worlds of science, technology, politics, economics and more to reflect on a year of global crisis and what’s next for the fashion industry and beyond.


News & Analysis

VOICES 2020: Fixing the Fashion System

Industry leaders including Remo Ruffini, Dries Van Noten and Harper’s Bazaar’s Samira Nasr offered ideas on how to solve some of fashion’s biggest problems, from outdated approaches to showing, delivering and discounting collections to the need for more meaningful inclusion.

News & Analysis

VOICES 2020: Fixing the Fashion System

Industry leaders including Remo Ruffini, Dries Van Noten and Harper’s Bazaar’s Samira Nasr offered ideas on how to solve some of fashion’s biggest problems, from outdated approaches to showing, delivering and discounting collections to the need for more meaningful inclusion.


Fashion Week

Dries Van Noten’s ‘Forum’ and ‘Rewiring Fashion’ Join Forces to Rebuild the Fashion System

Two early-pandemic initiatives set out to solve some of the industry’s biggest problems, from rampant discounting to a warped fashion calendar. Now, they’re coming together.

Fashion Week

Dries Van Noten’s ‘Forum’ and ‘Rewiring Fashion’ Join Forces to Rebuild the Fashion System

Two early-pandemic initiatives set out to solve some of the industry’s biggest problems, from rampant discounting to a warped fashion calendar. Now, they’re coming together.


News & Analysis

Boon The Shop: The Seoul-Based Store with a Fashion Soul

SEOUL, South Korea — Founded in 2000, Boon the Shop opened its doors with a clear aim: to pioneer multi-brand menswear retail in the South Korean

News & Analysis

Boon The Shop: The Seoul-Based Store with a Fashion Soul

SEOUL, South Korea — Founded in 2000, Boon the Shop opened its doors with a clear aim: to pioneer multi-brand menswear retail in the South Korean


News & Analysis

Selfridges: A Retail Theatre of Wonder

LONDON, United Kingdom — At Selfridges' flagship location situated on London's Oxford Street, one of the world's busiest and most populist shopping

News & Analysis

Selfridges: A Retail Theatre of Wonder

LONDON, United Kingdom — At Selfridges' flagship location situated on London's Oxford Street, one of the world's busiest and most populist shopping


Luxury

The BoF Podcast: Dries Van Noten on Making Retail Meaningful in the Pandemic

BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks speaks with the Belgian designer about his new community-centred art hub and why the clothing store could do with a makeover.

Luxury

The BoF Podcast: Dries Van Noten on Making Retail Meaningful in the Pandemic

BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks speaks with the Belgian designer about his new community-centred art hub and why the clothing store could do with a makeover.


Fashion Week

At Raf Simons, Children of the Coronavirus

The designer’s Spring 2021 collection for his namesake label, the first to include womenswear, offered an ominous meditation on coming of age in the time of Covid-19.

Fashion Week

At Raf Simons, Children of the Coronavirus

The designer’s Spring 2021 collection for his namesake label, the first to include womenswear, offered an ominous meditation on coming of age in the time of Covid-19.


Fashion Week

At Dries Van Noten, New Ways of Seeing

At a time when his usual methods of creation and communication were curtailed, Van Noten and his team were compelled down new paths.

Fashion Week

At Dries Van Noten, New Ways of Seeing

At a time when his usual methods of creation and communication were curtailed, Van Noten and his team were compelled down new paths.


Retail

The End of Need Supply and Totokaelo: ‘There Just Wasn’t a Model That Worked’

As yet another fashion retailer closes its doors, NSTO Chief Executive Chris Bossola breaks down the challenges facing the indie group and what they say about the state of the market.

Retail

The End of Need Supply and Totokaelo: ‘There Just Wasn’t a Model That Worked’

As yet another fashion retailer closes its doors, NSTO Chief Executive Chris Bossola breaks down the challenges facing the indie group and what they say about the state of the market.


News & Analysis

Announcing Josh Wood Colour, Slow Factory and Pitkin County Dry Goods

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.

News & Analysis

Announcing Josh Wood Colour, Slow Factory and Pitkin County Dry Goods

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.


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