Known for luxurious colors, avant-garde styles and expert tailoring, Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten began as part of the so-called Antwerp Six who trained at the city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s.PARIS, France — The feted Belgian designer Dries Van Noten will step down as creative director of his namesake fashion label in June, he announced Tuesday.
Van Noten added that a replacement would be announced "in due time" and that his studio team would handle the next womenswear collection. He grew up as the third generation of a family of tailors and worked first as a freelancer before launching his own collection of menswear in 1986.