The Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris regularly organizes exhibitions dedicated to the great designers, inviting them to represent themselves through their work. It gives them carte blanche to leave them free to set their own scene, according to their mood and their style. More than just exhibitions, they take on the form of figurative narratives. The most recent, dedicated to Dries Van Noten, ended last August after being extended thanks to its success. This exhibition entitled “Dries Van Noten-Inspiration”, has staged some of his most successful creations, in a sequence of Wunderkammer presenting clothes and accessories along with the reasons behind the inspiration: floral arrangements, paintings, portraits, mythical characters ….
More than an exhibition it seemed, so great was the wealth of colours and patterns, an explosion of fireworks. The shy Belgian designer, who has been the godfather of the Antwerp school paving the way for a new generation of unconventional creativity, revealed a pyrotechnic fantasy and a creative originality that make its sophisticated and valuable work always in fashion, but, at the same time, free from fashion.
WHERE: Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 107, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris