The spring-summer 2025 womenswear collection in September will be designed by his studio as the house, now owned by Spanish perfume giant Puig, works to identify a successor.
“I want to shift my focus to all the things I never had time for,” Van Noten’s statement read. “I feel it’s time to leave room for a new generation of talents to bring their vision to the brand.”
Dries Van Noten founded his brand in 1986 and went on to become a leading voice in fashion for four decades. His tenure was the longest lived of the “Antwerp Six”–a wave of Belgian creators that also included Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester who shook up the fashion system throughout the 1990s.
Van Noten sold a majority interest in the Antwerp-based company to Puig in 2018. The Spanish owner of perfume-and-fashion names like Paco Rabanne and cosmetics brand Charlotte Tilbury worked with Van Noten to launch perfume and lipsticks as well as strengthen its operations and opening stores.
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