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Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten is to step down as creative director at the end of June

Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten said Tuesday he will step down as

Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten is to step down as creative director of his namesake brand at the end of June.

The 65-year-old, who over nearly four decades became a master of blending the old with the new, with

What a loss.

WWD’s exclusive on Dries Van Noten’s announcement Tuesday that he’d be stepping down from the brand he founded 38 years ago hurt.

Particularly among fashion-world lifers who attended his shows and collected his pieces over the years,