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Fashion Collection: Dries Van Noten Women's Collection Spring/Summer 1997
creation Dries van Noten (Fashion Design)
contribution Daniëls, Marleen (Photography)
Grognard, Inge (Make up)
Stoops, Ronald (Photography)
Tordoir, Etienne ; www.catwalkpictures.com (Photography)
date 08.10.1996
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text An Ageless collection, unfolding to a tune of far distant travels, at the crossroads of Mediterranean and Oriental cultures: a long procession of rangy outlines, dreams of Marrakech alleyways, or mirages of Saharan heat in colours of sand and earth; ethereal materials bursting dramatically forth in blends of rich, luminous prints.

The figure, slender and distinct, has lengthened. The waist is emphasised, embellished with transparent skirts playing on superimpositions and scattered with sequins and engineered embroidery. From under dresses of vaporous chiffon or short pinafores appear long, wide trousers, sweeping the ground.
Fluidity is revealed also through materials and cuts.
The omnipresence of blas brings a new ease, is offered in a full... [more]


images

  1 , 2 , 3 , 4 all © Etienne Tordoir

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source
Flanders Fashion Institute FFI


 
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