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" For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. "
Dries van Noten
Fashion
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Too
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" 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. "
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" All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. "
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" 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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" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
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" 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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" 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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" I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot. "
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