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" I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something. "

Dries van Noten

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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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" Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "

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" I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated. "

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" To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. "

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" 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. "

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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 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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" I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living. "

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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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" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "

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" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "

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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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" I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. "

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" We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times. "

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" You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show. "

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" For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions. "

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" When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing. "

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" 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. "

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" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "

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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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" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "

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