A difference with a distinction at Tom Ford. Plus the new Dries Van Noten lacked restraint. By Vanessa Friedman Reporting from Paris Attention all martini-swilling lounge lizards with a soulful ...

“I don’t want to be a big player,” Dries Van Noten insisted in 2006. Yet he had, in fact, already become one. Rising to prominence in the 1980s, he all but created the mold for the ...

There were the designer debuts—namely the long-awaited collections of Haider Ackermann for Tom Ford, Sarah Burton for Givenchy, and Julian Klausner for Dries Van Noten. And then there were the ...