Dries Van Noten worked with British artist Gill Button to capture the tumultuous relationship between and style icon Marchesa Casati and her lover Gabriele d?Annunzio, the inspiration for his AW 2016 show and lookbook.
Her collaboration with the Belgian designer is the result of six months of communication.After discovering Button on Instagram - she uses the handle @buttonfruit - Van Noten reached out to her about possibly working together for his last collection
?I jumped at the chance to work with Dries because I love his aesthetic and I love his work. To me, it was just perfect.?
artist Gill Button
Gill Button is a UK-based illustrator. Gill has a very unique and distinctive style, illustrating in a playful and painterly hand that makes high fashion feel real and accessible. Working mostly with watercolours, you can see the beauty in the brushstroke in Gill?s work, the texture, the movement and the emotion