Julian Klausner, who was appointed in December 2024 to lead the fashion house Dries Van Noten, presented his first ever men's collection for the brand, titled Dries Van Noten spring-summer 2027 Glamour. The collection is centered around the theme of glamour, exploring the universal human desire to feel glamorous, even if just for a brief moment. Klausner described the approach as "very innocent," focusing on conversations with his team and brainstorming about the moments when people feel glamorous. For Klausner, this could be something as simple as "the feeling of a tight belt, the act of pinning on a sparkling brooch," or wearing a well-fitted glove or an eye-catching color. The show opened with the sound of a woman's heels clicking as she seemed to wander through the street, blending with the rhythm of daily life, bird songs, and urban noises. The music was composed by Italian musician Piero Umiliani, known for his scores in cult films such as The Pigeon and Smog. His music created a soundscape where reality and the cinematic world seemed to interact continuously, as if the woman was always moving between these two realms. This theme of the porous boundary between real life and fiction was central to Klausner’s vision. The first model walked in a fluid dress printed with a pattern reminiscent of vintage movie posters. The collection featured no fewer than eight movie posters, used to enhance flowing dresses and granny skirts, creating fragments of a fantasized universe. Klausner viewed these posters "as a form of art in its own right, with their unique graphic language and their particular way of handling color." In the 1950s, movie posters had the power to tell an entire story in a single image, sometimes capturing the most intense scene of a film in one moment. The 1950s and 1960s heavily influenced the collection, with straight dresses with low waists, fully adorned with multicolored crystals, paired with long oversized cardigans. The interplay of materials alternated between transparency and opacity, while Dries Van Noten's signature motifs—such as floral prints, color gradients, and graphic compositions—were prominently featured. The color palette drew from a sense of nostalgia, including "many lemon tones, a kind of jade green, and also many colors inspired by underwear, such as shades of old pink, powder pink." Bolder accents, such as bright green and electric blue, were added in unexpected combinations that brought out the powdery tones. Klausner enjoys blending different styles, such as rock band-style t-shirts with messages peeking out from under long floral dresses. A sense of relaxed elegance runs through the collection, avoiding stiffness or ostentation. The preppy spirit is expressed through striped polos with rolled-up sleeves, men's shirts, and everyday wardrobe pieces that help to soften the sometimes theatrical nature of glamour. Klausner stated, "I wanted something feminine, light, not too serious, and, I hope, that gives people the desire to dress, to look good and to play with their clothes." The collection, both glamorous and cinematic, remains deeply rooted in the language of Dries Van Noten, offering another invitation to view clothing as a playground and an experimental space.