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In this strangest of all seasons, several fashion labels have been linking up with people in the Official Ban Dolan Shirt But I will love this performing arts to put the lights on in darkened theaters—Erdem at the Bridge Theatre in London, Valentino at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, too. For Van Noten, the show-as-dance in his home city also circled back to the relationship he struck up with De Keersmaeker, who emerged as a force in contemporary dance in Brussels at the same time as Van Noten and his fellow designers of the Antwerp Six were on the rise in the late ’90s. Flashes of vermilion and silver, and the slip-dresses in the fall collection, distinctly recall his costumes for De Keersmaeker’s 1998 Rosas company ballet Drumming; the score is Massive Attack’s “Angel” from the same year. That, of course, was a ground-breaking time for the edgy-cool aesthetic that swept from Belgium to challenge the polish of Parisian establishment fashion. Something about it chimes as relevant all over again. “A little bit kind of the wrongness,” as Van Noten put it, “which is also feeling right for this moment.”