Inside the World of Dries Van Noten with a New Documentary

“The fashion industry has been dying in its own grave, and people like Dries keep the flame alive,” says doyenne of style Iris Apfel. She’s speaking in the first documentary on Dries Van Noten and praises him as a uniquely “low-key” industry presence who always succeeds in “doing the unexpected”. German filmmaker Reiner Holzemer shot the Belgian designer over a full year as he conceptualised and brought four collections into the world. We spoke to him ahead of the world…