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Dries van Noten

Dries van Noten

Belgian fashion designer

Sep 23, 2026

11:07
[laughs] Um, can you explain a little bit how the foundation, uh, the, the, the true goal as you see the foundation and how it's set up? Is it, you know, uh, more of a Kunsthalle kind of, you know, space for exhibitions, or do you intend to also be a collecting institution?
11:26
We have absolutely done not the wish to collect.
11:29
Uh, I think we want really to connect people.
11:33
We want to create kind of a platform where we're gonna do a lot of different things.
11:37
And now again, the exhibition what we do now, everything happened quite fast because, uh, we bought the palazzo July last year, end of July.
11:46
So we started to work on the exhibition in, uh, September.
11:50
And, uh, so everything goes really fast, but for us it was good because before we do really kind of all the renovations, it's feels a little bit first like a general rehearsal.

8 MINS LATER

20:15
And is there a kind of a didactic idea b- between each room and a concept for a room, or is it really... or is everything more equal in that regard?
24:22
And so I wanted to ask, through this exhibition, are you thinking about not just the hand of the maker, but the feeling of the maker? I mean, obviously you're having your emotional response to it, but maybe the, the maker's emotion as extended into it as well.
24:37
Mm-hmm.
24:37
No, of course, I think when you're interested in craftsmanship and when you don't really want just to make kind of machine-made pieces, automatically you feel the hand of the maker.
24:47
I think that's the beauty of it.
24:48
The hand of the maker also sees that every piece is kind of, in its way, nearly unique because there's always some irregularities.
24:55
There's always something that you see that...
24:58
Yeah, I talked already about coincidence, which for me is such an important factor in creativity.

8 MINS LATER

32:40
Like, what through line do you see between how you're spending your time now and how you were spending it a few years ago?
15:47
Um, but you, you're definitely talking about beauty as engagement rather than escape with this exhibition, it seems to me.
15:54
For me, it can't be only escape, and I think beauty can be so much more than, than just, uh, pretty.
16:02
For me, the, the beauty... a person can be beautiful, and it's much more layered, again, than just like a beautiful person, a good-looking person.
16:12
No, for me, beautiful people are really people who mean something, who do something, who have a way that they think, that they, they live in the world, the way that they stand in the world.
16:23
Beauty, b- for me, also can be healing, and beauty is something super personal because what's beautiful for me is maybe not beautiful for you.
16:30
There are so many different notions about what beauty can be and how beauty can help you as a person to live in a be- a better life.
16:38
Those are the things which I want really to work on and to investigate.

22 MINS LATER

38:40
What kind of support system do you have to, to work on this, to make all of this happen?

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