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All Quotes by author - Dries van Noten
" All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. "
Because
Involved
Personal
" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
Change
Good
Always
" Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate. "
Clothes
Fashion
Way
" Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. "
Coincidence
Different
Important
" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "
Really
Fashion
Way
" For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother. "
Bread
Breakfast
Fruit
" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "
Something
Work
Me
" For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. "
Me
Colors
You
" For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. "
Fashion
Much
Too
" For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions. "
Always
Push
Negative
" I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something. "
Me
Value
Objects
" I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. "
Myself
Women
Design
" I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell. "
Responsibility
Work
Point
" I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour. "
Week
Detail
Sitting
" I have nothing against glamorous dressing. "
Against
Nothing
Glamorous
" I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own. "
Image
Own
You
" I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot. "
Forward
Want
Choose
" I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense. "
Good
Thought
Look
" I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core. "
Research
Love
Me
" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "
Shoe
Like
Fashion
" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "
People
Wear
Clothes
" I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow. "
Color
You
Snow
" I'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "
Color
Known
Prints
" I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do. "
My Own
Want
Own
" I'm really hands-on. My team brings in elements, but, every season, it's kind of a personal struggle to find the balance and to see how far I want to push the elements. "
Find
Balance
See
" In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors. "
Where
Well
Colors
" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "
Process
Comprehensive
Design
" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "
Prefer
Atmosphere
" I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. "
See
Lack
Good
" I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. "
Ugly
Prefer
Surprising
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