Dries Van Noten at Bergdorfs

Dries Van Noten is a very busy designer.  As I wrote about recently, he just opened a new men's store in Paris and now he just celebrated his new in store boutique on the third floor at Bergdorf Goodman.  I love that Dries puts as much thought into interior design as he does fashion design.  He recently told Esquire, "my partner Patrick Vangheluwe and I choose all the antiques pieces that go into the spaces. Sometimes they rotate in and out of our home and the stores."  The blue sofa and yellow drapery combination is the same as in the Paris store but clearly, it's a scheme that works well.  Dries also said, "the nice thing with antiques is you never find the same thing twice. You can make the same formula by combining a 1950's chair with an over-the-top turn of the century table and all these things, but it's always unique. It's these strange mixtures that appeal in the decoration as they always do in my collection." I concur.

Photos by Heather Clawson for Habitually Chic

Chic in Paris: Dries Van Noten Men's Store

I would like to think that if Diana Vreeland was alive today, she would greatly approve of the new Dries Van Noten men's store in Paris.  The shop, located at 9 quai Malaquais, is two doors away from his gorgeous women's boutique and was until recently an art gallery.  What I love the most is that Dries and his architect Gert Voorjans kept the original red/rust colored lacquer from the 1970's and replicated it the back of the store which was once an office.  Even though the space is now devoted to men's clothing, the designer has also filled it back up with carefully chosen art, antiques and furnishings from every time period and style.  A metal Italian coffee table by Gabriells Crespi coexists with a Jean Cocteau drawing and an Anthony van Dyck painting that hangs on a wood panel from the 1960's that was bought in Brussels.  Oh, and the clothes aren't too shabby either.