Dries Van Noten - The Little House

Born in Belgium, Dries Van Noten is a third-generation tailor. He studied fashion design at Antwerp's Royal Academy and launched his first menswear collection in 1986. Over the decades he has presented biannual collections for men and women, achieving significant milestones with his 50th and 100th fashion shows in 2004 and 2017, respectively. In 2008, the Council of Fashion Designers of America named him International Designer of the Year. His retrospective exhibition, Inspirations, debuted at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2014 and later traveled to Antwerp in 2015. That same year, he was honored as an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France and received Antwerp’s Culture Award in 2016. In 2023, he was named Designer of the Year by WWD for both his women’s and men’s collections.