September 29, 2022 |
Dries is back! For the Belgian fashion maven’s first in-person womenswear show in two years, the designer spoke of emerging from a place of darkness into technicoloured optimism. He began his show with a parade of all black looks inspired by Malevich’s 1915 painting “The Black Square”. Be it louche tailoring which dripped with fringe, swollen T-shirts pulled and darted into awkwardly beautiful proportions and frocks that sprouted with reptilian-like ruffles.
Then came some colour: giant blue paillettes, powdery pink chiffon, roomy blazers and trousers cut wide and free – all in the most delightful pale hues. Some garments came purposefully wrinkled, as if weathered in the storm of the last two years. All then made way for a full-throttle floral explosion. The green-fingered designer is known for his seriously impressive garden, and here he mined his archive to collage various floral prints from previous collections. It was total Dries to divine effect – watch him bloom.
Photography by Imaxtree.
