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" Dries Van Noten has been on a roll: First he opened his new men&amp;#039;s wear only story in Paris and last night he was in New York to celebrate the opening of his new shop-in-shops at Bergdorf Goodman and Bergdorf Goodman Man. The visionary member of the Antwerp Six took some time to speak with us about decorating stores, the usefulness of antiques and his Fall 2011 collection. Actually, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a bit early to talk about fall, I think, but I will tell you we&amp;#039;ve bought the fabrics&amp;quot; is all he said about January&amp;#039;s show and seeing how it&amp;#039;s his 25th anniversary, we don&amp;#039;t blame him. But his new retail ventures gave us plenty to talk about. We have a small in-shop at Saks in San Francisco, and one also in Boca Raton, but this is the first one that is really substantial. We&amp;#039;ve brought in all the furniture and we have the space to show our creations in this full way. Each space is different. This is, of course, because of the physical space, but I also want every space to have its own character. 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 nice thing with antiques is you never find the same thing twice. You can make the same formula by combining a 1950&amp;#039;s chair with an over-the-top turn of the century table and all these things, but it&amp;#039;s always unique. It&amp;#039;s these strange mixtures that appeal in the decoration as they always do in my collection. Collecting antiques is a hobby, but on the other hand, it helps also with other aspects. When you look around for them you train your eye for certain things. And, of course, carpets and fabrics in theory influence a lot of what I do for my collections. We just opened our men&amp;#039;s store in Paris and it was because I found that space \u2014 which was not far from the women&amp;#039;s store \u2014 that had the original orange lacquered walls from 1974, in perfect condition. So I said, &amp;quot;okay, we have to do it,&amp;quot; we continued the decorations with that same atmosphere in mind. Am I going to open your own store in the United States? Who knows? I don&amp;#039;t know. We don&amp;#039;t work like that. If we find the right space, maybe. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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