Dries Van Noten’s SS25 collection, presented in Paris last year, was introduced to onlookers by the words “there is no beginning, no end”. And although the designer himself noted that the show was not a grand finale, it’s hard not to think of his 150th collection, and last, for the house, following a 38-year tenure, as something of a farewell. Julian Klausner, who has worked alongside Van Noten since 2018, has fittinglybeen named his successor, as “a natural connection between the past and the future”.