On another page, I spotted green cargo pants from my favorite Dries Van Noten collection.
Van Noten's first client was the famed retailer Barneys New York, his favorite store at the time.
At Dries Van Noten, there was an explosion of psychedelic prints splashed on coats, pants and shirts.
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"Dirk Bikkembergs had a contact of someone who made shoes, so he made men's shoes, " Van Noten says.
Van Noten was so nervous about the meeting, he says, "I ran away!"
Mr. Ackermann studied fashion at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, whose alumni include Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester.
Mr. Van Noten was not the only designer to do a more serious take on grunge this spring, while retaining its loose, casual spirit.
Ms. Demeulemeester graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1981 with other soon-to-be-famous designers Dries Van Noten and Dirk Bikkembergs.
Van Noten had a men's jacket manufacturer and shirt manufacturer who were willing to produce clothes for him, so he designed a small menswear collection.
Eileen Guggenheim, one of the founding members of New York Academy of Art in 1982, opted for slacks and a diaphanous, sequined embroidered top by Dries van Noten.
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Voorjans is undeniably less reserved than the soft-spoken Van Noten.
Van Noten's retail spaces so closely echo the designer's finely wrought blend of old and new, classic and kitsch, and exotic and traditional that you'd expect both the fashion and the decorative styles to have sprung from the same source.
When we meet, he wears a china-blue double-breasted Van Noten suit and white distressed Church's loafers that match the slightly cartoonish white round-frame sunglasses he puts on later as we walk over to Van Noten's Antwerp store, where he often shows up unannounced.
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