Purple Television

[March 2 2017] : Television

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – “A Single Man” (Dressing Scene)

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – “A Single Man” (Dressing Scene) by Tom Ford

“I love the pathos, the precision, the fetishistic nature that men treat their clothes and the pain of solitude. I had loved Christopher Isherwood’s novel and found that Tom Ford mastered it beautifully.” — Dries Van Noten

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[February 27 2017] : love

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – Loie Fuller’s Danse Serpentine (1897) by The Lumière Brothers

01:08

“Possibly the worlds first fashion film? I love the movement and how the garments invest in how the movement is expressed. A perfect symbiosis.”...
[February 28 2017] : love

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – Fase by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Michele Anne de Mey

09:10

“Working with Anne Teresa on the costumes for the premier of Rain in Brussels in 2001 remains a highlight of the collaborations I have...
[February 28 2017] : love

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – Pina Bausch’s “The Man I Love” by Hans Beenakker

02:20

“Sartorial masculinity tweaked, pinked and challenged by another queen of contemporary dance.” — Dries Van Noten
[March 1 2017] : music

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – You Think You’re a Man by Divine

03:18

“Oh the many nights dancing to this! Divine decadence .. it felt almost dangerously trashy at the time.” — Dries Van Noten
[March 2 2017] : Television

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – “A Single Man” (Dressing Scene) by Tom Ford

00:46

“I love the pathos, the precision, the fetishistic nature that men treat their clothes and the pain of solitude. I had loved Christopher Isherwood’s novel...
[March 3 2017] : music

Dries van Noten TV Takeover – Weapon of Choice” by Fatboy Slim

03:51

“I love Christopher Walken in this .. a man and a suit as one behaving improbably. Playfully masculine too.” — Dries Van Noten
[March 4 2017] : art

Dries van Noten TV Takeover – Gravity by Nicolas Provost

04:06

“I love the layers here – of image, emotion and meaning, it plays with radically chopped nostalgia, the saccharine of films of that period is...
[March 5 2017] : art

Dries van Noten TV Takeover – Ever is Over All by Pipilotti Rist

02:45

“The serenity of this violent act of rage, the wafting sentimentality of the music, how the two projected images clash and contrast with the humor...
[March 6 2017] : love

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese

01:08

“‘L’Art de Table’ on steroids! I love the baroque precision and detail of this heightened view on a world almost glimpsed through the window.”...
[March 7 2017] : fashion

Dries Van Noten TV Takeover – Peggy Guggenheim : Art Addict by Lisa Immordino Vreeland

02:29

“I greatly liked the way Lisa married movement in still images with audio narrative to tell a bitter sweet story of a revered figure...

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