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[March 4 2017] : art

Dries van Noten TV Takeover – Gravity

Dries van Noten TV Takeover – Gravity by Nicolas Provost

“I love the layers here – of image, emotion and meaning, it plays with radically chopped nostalgia, the saccharine of films of that period is neutralised by the seemingly violent cutting of images that, though rough are smooth in transition.” — 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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