Why Women Should Be Paying Attention to Dries Van Noten's Gender-Bending Menswear

"I think Dries Van Noten is my favorite designer . . . ever." Thus spoke my mid-wash-jeans-wearing, scraggly beard-having, whiskey-drinking boyfriend while he thumbed the racks at Barneys New York. As if that wasn't strange enough already, there was the fact that he was thumbing through the women's racks, lingering on a Spring 2015 jacket in emerald, sapphire, and glittering rust brocade that was being offered at a heavy discount. He slipped it off the hanger and tossed it on over his Gap T-shir...