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" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "
Dries van Noten
Something
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Me
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" Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect. "
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" I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92. "
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" Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with. "
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" Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. "
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" For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. "
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Much
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" I try to be as independent as possible. "
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Possible
Try
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" My morning routine varies by how much time I have. In the winter, I like to take baths, but in the summer, I prefer a good shower with some soap and then maybe some moisturizer afterward. I use D.R. Harris and Geo. F. Trumper products, which we also stock at our shops in Paris and Antwerp. "
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Time
" Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it. "
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Time
Imagination
" 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. "
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Own
You
" 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. "
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Sitting
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Color
You
Snow
" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "
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Prefer
Atmosphere
" My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the countryside between Antwerp and Brussels. "
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Old
Live
Partner
" The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things. "
Dries van Noten
Need
Trees
Going
" For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions. "
Dries van Noten
Always
Push
Negative
" 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. "
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Research
Love
Me
" The word 'fashion' I don't like because fashion is something that's over in six months. I'd like to find a word that's more timeless. "
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Because
Over
Fashion
" People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that. "
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Romantic
Women
Morning
" I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. "
Dries van Noten
Myself
Women
Design
" When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full. "
Dries van Noten
Start
Fashion
You
" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "
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Really
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" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Bread
Breakfast
Fruit
" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
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Change
Good
Always
" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "
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People
Wear
Clothes
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Find
Balance
See
" 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. "
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My Own
Want
Own
" I'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "
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Color
Known
Prints
" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "
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Process
Comprehensive
Design
" I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself. "
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Boy
Spending Time
Time
" To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. "
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Create
You
Tell