»A Standout Season from the Man Who Doesn’t Miss
Dries Van Noten lists more than 40 different colors in the description of his spring 2018 men’s collection, including such delicious hues as plum, truffle, pistachio, and zabaglione, a creamy Italian dessert.
“I wanted to push the whole idea of color for men,” he says in a thick Flemish accent that makes even the word “color” sound like a strange and beautiful foreign concept. “You can go quite far with colors, as long as you keep the shapes recognizable.” So that chromatic cornucopia he dreamed up—inspired, in fact, by automobile paint and interior shades from the 1950s—became a color-blocked run of otherwise straightforward menswear. The boxy suit jackets, pleated trousers, loose sweatshirts, and belted trench coats in the collection require no…
