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Tim's Take | Dries Van Noten Autumn/Winter 2016

Tim Blanks talks to Dries Van Noten to decode the creative thinking behind his latest collection. Watch now.

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  • Tim Blanks

PARIS, France — In a new video series, BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks talks to fashion's top designers to decode the creative thinking behind their latest collections. Today, Blanks talks to Dries Van Noten about his Autumn/Winter 2016 show, decadence, exotica and being inspired by the grand passion between Italian eccentric Marchesa Casati and her poet lover Gabriele D'Annunzio.

To read Tim Blanks' review of Dries Van Noten's Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, click here.

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