Ensemble
Designer
Dries Van Noten
(born 1958)
Fall 2006
Black rayon, cotton, wool blend, tan linen, red velvet, metallic thread, beads, cording, brown mesh, and brown leather
Gift of Dries Van Noten
Object number2007.47.2
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.”
DescriptionEnsemble; double-breasted pea coat jacket in black burlap of rayon / cotton / wool blend with moiré ribbon 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.Collections
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