Julian Klausner

Julian Klausner is a Belgian fashion designer and the creative director of Dries Van Noten. He graduated from La Cambre in Brussels in 2016 and worked at Maison Margiela before joining the Dries Van Noten womenswear studio in 2018.

Klausner progressed to head of womenswear and became involved beyond garment design in casting, image direction and studio operations. His work inside the house included the development of the Spring/Summer 2020 womenswear collection made with Christian Lacroix, giving him direct experience of both the collection process and the wider visual identity of the brand.

He was appointed creative director for womenswear and menswear in December 2024 following Dries Van Noten’s departure from day-to-day creative leadership. After directing the transitional Autumn/Winter 2025 menswear project, Klausner presented his first women’s runway collection as creative director in Paris on 5 March 2025.

Klausner approaches the house from inside its existing systems. Textile development, colour and layered print remain central, but his early work has placed greater emphasis on theatrical construction, exposed fastening, defined waists and shifts between formal volume and deliberately unfinished surface.

His collections use the archive as a working vocabulary rather than a set of looks to reproduce. Familiar foulards, jewel tones, coats and decorative fabrics are redirected through changes in proportion, tactile assembly and cinematic styling, preserving continuity while making the authorship legible as his own.

Because his pre-appointment role extended into casting and image direction, the work is conceived across the collection, runway and communication rather than as garment design alone. This broader mandate supports his responsibility for both genders and for the evolving public identity of the house.