Enfnts Terribles

Virile to a max

The collection played with different archetypes of garments and men. Think business, combat, mariner, country, western. But also Loverboy, hustler bright, cocky, instinctive, feral, flashy, underworld hero, adorned, testosterone, ballsy, rough, gruff, impulsive. Virile to a max.

For this collection Dries Van Noten stayed true to himself and created a menswear collection with elegance from the more formal, expressed through pronounced shoulders and waist. The colors he used were almost as beautiful as the silhouettes. The color palette was miscellaneous of vivid and saturated colors, a gamut of reds to orange, fuchsia, blacks, browns to nude, white, yellows, olive and combat drab.

Picture-perfect prints

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the prints Dries Van Noten used for his collection. While the colors he used beautifully blended together, the prints added perfection to it. He used leopard, tiger and zebra, and for once we’re not mad about it. But the flowers muted bright, inspired by lady dresses and Flemish Masters, camo-fleur, robes in vivid prints line trench coats was what really took our breath away. All of this went really well together with the used fabrics that went from light and diaphanous, precious to rough, conservative to kinky to even classic tailoring. Think New Nylon, cotton to leather.

Photos by Jonathan Zegbe for Enfnts Terribles