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RUNWAY REPORT S/S 14: Menacing Romance at Dries Van Noten

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Runway Report Menacing Romance At Dries Van NotenIt’s official: floral print is going to be huge in menswear for Spring/Summer 2014. Putting aside the fact that this trend (though an undeniable classic) might be too overly predictable and it might be a little too early to race itself through the trend-cycle, Dries Van Noten was able to add a sinister twist to the otherwise mundane and tiresome style.

The whole narrative for the dark flowers started with the fact Van Noten will have a career retrospective exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris next year; and having seen the museum’s archives, he came across some “pretty, but strange” floral prints that he thought fitted the personality of his house’s DNA, the experimentation of menswear classics with feminine fabrics. Eventually, the Van Noten were able to obtain the prints from eighteenth-century rococo, with scans of freshly cut blooms or Hawaiian gothic’s being combined in a contrasting mix of silhouettes and fabrications.

The pieces themselves had an ease level of comfort to them; from surfing Hawaiian shorts beach shorts and sheer tanks, to very light coats that just drapes over the figure, Van Noten knows that his customers are non-fussy, noninterventionist men; the whole point of having flowers dominate the entire collection was to “[see] how far you can go with transparent shirts and dévoré and still be able to say, ‘Hey man, this is men’s clothes.'” 

Ultimately, it might take a true hipster soul to rock total-looks from the collection, but can definitely see single pieces from the collection that can integrate itself into any type of classic wardrobe; abide you’re not afraid to rock the floral trend that is.

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