Dries Van Noten is a brand synonymous with color. For decades, its founder and namesake built a vivid world filled with blooming florals, rich textures, and a more-is-more approach to prints, setting more than a few color trends along the way. Though he retired last summer, his legacy lives on with creative director Julien Klausner (who actually worked on the design team before taking over the top job). You can tell that he inherently understands what makes the brand so compelling: Klausner's latest collection, shown during Paris Fashion Week, is a blueprint for the spring color trends your closet never saw coming.
Dries Van Noten's Spring 2026 runway offered a playbook for putting unlikely colors together in unexpected ways—and not in a "these are my favorite sports team's colors so I kind of have no choice" way. Rather, an "I have an outfit vision" way.
