BALANCING A NOSTALGIC HISTORICAL SENSE WITH RADICAL SENSE WITH RADICAL MODERNISM, KRIS VAN ASSCHE HAS CREATED A DISTINCTIVE, REFINED WORLD OF NONCHALANT ELEGANCE. VAN ASSCHE'S WORK IS CHARACTERIZED BY ATTENTION TO DETAIL, A STRONG FEEL FOR RITUAL AND THE EXACTING DEPICTION OF A CHIC THAT EVOKES "DAYS GONE BY". HIS DESIGNS ARISE FROM A SOPHISTICATED APROACH THAT BREAKS AWAY FROM THE UNIFORMIZATION OF SPORTSWEAR. KRIS VAN ASSCHE WAS BORN IN BELGIUM IN 1976. SHORTLY AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE ANTWERP ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ART, HE MOVED TO PARIS IN 1998. AFTER WORKING WITH HEDI SLIMANE AT YVES SAINT LAURENT AND THEN FOR DIOR HOMME, HE BEGAN TO SHOW HIS ORIGINAL CREATIONS IN JANUARY 2005. TODAY HE HEADS HIS OWN LABEL KRISVANASSCHE.