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The Spring/Summer season 2025 womenswear assortment in September might be designed by his studio as the home, now owned by Spanish fragrance large Puig, works to determine a successor.
“I need to shift my focus to all of the issues I by no means had time for,” Van Noten’s assertion learn. “I really feel it’s time to go away room for a brand new era of abilities to carry their imaginative and prescient to the model.”
Dries Van Noten based his model in 1986 and went on to turn into a number one voice in style for 4 many years. His tenure was the longest lived of the “Antwerp Six” — a wave of Belgian creators that additionally included Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester who shook up the style system all through the Nineteen Nineties.
Van Noten bought a majority curiosity within the Antwerp-based firm to Puig in 2018. The Spanish proprietor of perfume-and-fashion names like Paco Rabanne and cosmetics model Charlotte Tilbury labored with Van Noten to launch fragrance and lipsticks in addition to strengthen its operations and opening shops.
Keep tuned to BoF for updates on this growing story.
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