Kris Van Assche

Kris Van Assche (b. 1976) is a Belgian fashion designer who studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and moved to Paris after graduating in 1998. His career got off to a fast start: he went straight to Yves Saint Laurent as Hedi Slimane’s assistant and later followed him to Dior, where he helped shape the early years of the Dior Homme line. In 2005, Van Assche founded a label under his own name and showed his first menswear collection at Paris Fashion Week. From 2007, he spent more than a decade as artistic director of Dior Homme, where he later moved on to the French brand Berluti as creative director. Van Assche still lives in Paris and mentors at the Polimoda fashion school in Florence.