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" I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. "
Jonathan Anderson
Some
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Black-And-White
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" Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back. "
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" The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out. "
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" I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses. "
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" 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. "
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" I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English. "
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" I'm not the best at getting myself breakfast, but if I do, I'll normally have toast and marmalade. "
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" Britain and America are two examples where social media will only show you what you like. "
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" If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational. "
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" I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments. "
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" Collaborations are incredibly important in design. "
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" I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say. "
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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. "
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" I never set out to work on the concept of androgyny. For me, it was more about trying to find a wardrobe that would fundamentally appeal to both men and women: Trying to find the right shirt, the right jeans, the right trouser - but on different landscapes. "
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" I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company. "
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" Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating. "
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" Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm. "
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" Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature. "
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" I was very into swimming, but I was never into contact sports. I think it was because I knew I wasn't going to get damaged. "
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" I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit. "
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" If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks. "
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" I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash. "
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" 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. "
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" Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process. "
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" 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. "
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" I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it 'nice.' "
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" When I was a kid, I remember the fear of going into big brand stores. You didn't want to go in because you felt like you couldn't afford anything. "
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