Dries Van Noten was born in Antwerp in 1958, into a three-generations-old family of Tailors.
He studied at the Antwerp Academy.
His first presentation was a mens collection in London in 1986 under the aegis of the Antwerp Six.
Both the press and buyers were impressed and by 1989 he had opened a boutique in Antwerp.
In 1991 Dries van Noten held his first ready-to-wear collection in Paris.
Two years later, in 1993, he opened showrooms in Paris and Milan.
A new era began for Dries Van Noten, when in 1991, he staged a Paris runway show of his men's ready-to-wear collection Van Noten.
The company has continued to expand with stores in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
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