Paris Fashion Week

Dries Van Noten
Dries Van Noten used more than 30 different prints in his show and managed to mix them all together without the result looking like a jumble sale. They were mainly florals, not really from any period or style, of contrasting scale and colour.

What was important about the result was less about an individual print but more about the way they were matched and mixed up. Rolls of fabric, mainly silk, were printed in blocks, one print next to each other, so a dress might have one pattern on the yoke, another down the sleeve and a third down the front, not a result of seaming but careful cutting of the cloth.

Editors love to find trends, and while the styles are completely unique to each house, this show and Balenciaga’s riot of pattern yesterday, have them all in a frenzy already.

Images: Trendstop.com