It’s not often that pieces from a designer’s collection end up in a gallery before they make it into stores, but such is the case for the designer Dries Van Noten. An exhibition that opened in Vienna yesterday, and that will later travel to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Paris COACH BAG, features a selection from Van Noten’s spring 2012 collection alongside photographs by the London-born artist James Reeve that inspired them. Among the pieces are Reeve’s photo of buildings in La Rouviere, a housing complex in Marseille, and the shirt that Van Noten applied it to. “I liked the mystery, the lights at night, the moment of wonder, where you’re questioning what’s happening on the other side of the windows,” says Van Noten of the image. Reeve, too, considers the picture quite voyeuristic. “It’s like 1,000 small colorful television screens all lined up in rows on the hillside,” he says. “I have often seen people peering into the windows, trying to discover what kind of activity is going on inside.” Other pieces on view with their corresponding photographs include Van Noten’s bridge shift and “Circus, Circus” top. “I’m used to seeing my work as two-dimensional,” Reeve says. “It was inspiring to see Dries translate it into dynamic forms –– the way the ruffle skirts seem to almost play with the lights as they move COACH BAG, the colored crystals that he sewed into the windows of La Rouviere. I thought that was a really beautiful idea.”
The works of Dries Van Noten and James Reeve are on view in Vienna, Nov. 17-24 at Song, Song, Praterstrasse 11 – 13; in Hong Kong, Nov. 30-Dec. 12 at the Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road; in Tokyo, Dec. 2-17 at Aoyama B1F, 5-5-4, Minato-Aoyama; in Paris, Jan. 7-25 at Joyce Gallery COACH BAG, 9 Rue de Valois.
Looks from Dries Van Noten’s spring collection turned photographs by James Reeve into prints.
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