Report: Backstage Dries Van Noten SS 2014

The photographer and the heroine of the first Wonderzine material, Christina Abdeeva, removed a report from the backstage of the Belgian Dries Van Noten.

I have time to get to the rehearsal of the show. The huge space is divided into two parts by rows of columns. The glowing golden wall, zigzagging, is a tree covered with gold leaf. I see a radiohead guitarist in the spotlight and models walking calmly and confidently. They need to describe a large rectangle in order to line up at the end along the golden wall.

Backstage, like the display space, is striking in scope. Girls finish doing makeup: they have gold leaf and on the eyelashes, and at an oblique parting. I notice the scene as from a movie: the model is literally covered with hairdressers, make-up artists, even her hands are busy - she is given a manicure. I like very much that hair stylists use playing cards to fix their hair - someone has six worms, someone has a cross, someone has a shirt. I do not immediately notice the designer. It is quiet and invisible, maneuvering between models. But his assistants are very well heard: they ask us to stop taking pictures - it's time for girls to get dressed.