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" I always think the great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed. That is what is so great about shirting - it is an up-play-down-play. "

Jonathan Anderson

Always

Great

Jeans

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" When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer. "

" One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone. "

" My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team. "

" For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected. "

Jonathan Anderson

Fashion

Always

" Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating. "

" I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process. "

" My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time. "

" Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me. "

" I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do. "

" Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm. "

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" The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist. "

" My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children. "

" I could binge-eat cheese - I love any blue cheese. Make it strong; make it deadly. "

" I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does. "

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" I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon. "

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" I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants. "

" I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash. "

" I am a huge obsessor with photography. "

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" Britain and America are two examples where social media will only show you what you like. "