Warmly received on its opening, the inaugural Presentation of Fondazione Dries Van Noten at Palazzo Pisani Moretta extends into a volume that opens up craftsmanship as a shared language shaped by material, gesture and time, in constant dialogue with the Palazzo’s layered architecture and history.
Moving through the Presentation’s protagonists, from Christian Lacroix and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons to Peter Buggenhout, Misha Kahn, Ritsue Mishima and Hubert Duprat among others, the reading reveals distinct yet interconnected approaches to making, while essays by Glenn Adamson, Alexander Fury and Ezra Babski expand the inquiry through complementary critical lenses. Together they frame craftsmanship not as subject but as condition, where making becomes inquiry, form and sensibility.