KRIS VAN ASSCHE

“I really wanted to go back to a body-conscious silhouette,” he explains with methodical northern European precision, “which isn’t the same as a skinny silhouette. There’s space for the shoulders, the chest, the waist, the hips. Something very athletic.” While working on the collection, he thought about Superman — what he might mean beyond the comic books. “I thought about working hard and studying hard and going to the gym hard and becoming the best you can be,” he explains. “Talking about athletics brought us to the idea of having a healthy mind and body, which then brought us to this film Gattaca — a huge step, but that’s how things go sometimes.”