Object: Ensemble
Designer:
Dries Van Noten
(born 1958)
Date: Fall 2006
Medium: Black rayon, cotton, wool blend, tan linen, red velvet, metallic thread, beads, cording, brown mesh, and brown leather
Country: Belgium
Credit Line: Gift of Dries Van Noten
Object number: 2007.47.2
DescriptionEnsemble; double-breasted jacket in black burlap of rayon / cotton / wool blend with moiré front belt; short sleeve tent dress in tan linen with large-scale Ottoman tulip pattern woven in deep red velvet, and appliqué hem band embroidered with metallic threads, cords and beads on brown mesh, referencing the mound of germinating earth depicted under the Indian Tree of Life; brown leather stacked heel pumps.
Label Text:The Belgian designer Dries van Noten has been profoundly influenced by non-Western aesthetics, which he identifies with a new way of seeing. Exoticism, he says, “is generally associated with different countries. But for me, it is rather everything that reroutes us from the ordinary.”
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Exoticism