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" I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods. "
Jonathan Anderson
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" I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it. "
Jonathan Anderson
Respect
Look
Love
" When I do a fashion show, it's not done until it exits out of the door. "
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion Show
Show
Fashion
" 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. "
Jonathan Anderson
You
Finding
Fashion
" For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information. "
Jonathan Anderson
Creative
Information
Me
" I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. "
Jonathan Anderson
Some
Photography
Black-And-White
" I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century. "
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion
I Am
Love
" To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine. "
Jonathan Anderson
Been
Fantasy
Mine
" 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. "
Jonathan Anderson
Someone
Up
Difficult
" I could binge-eat cheese - I love any blue cheese. Make it strong; make it deadly. "
Jonathan Anderson
Make
Love
Deadly
" I've always been massively aware of clothing. "
Jonathan Anderson
Massively
Been
Aware
" I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.' "
Jonathan Anderson
Create
Think
Stop
" I am a huge obsessor with photography. "
Jonathan Anderson
Am
Photography
Huge
" I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up. "
Jonathan Anderson
Excited
Train
Love
" You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal. "
Jonathan Anderson
Fashion
You
Think
" I collect craft. It inspires me. "
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Inspires
Craft
" The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out. "
Jonathan Anderson
Hell
Everything
Way
" No one reads anything. They just look at images. "
Jonathan Anderson
Anything
Reads
Images
" I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company. "
Jonathan Anderson
Working
Spanish
Irish
" I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on. "
Jonathan Anderson
Feel
Never
You
" Collaborations are incredibly important in design. "
Jonathan Anderson
Design
Important
Incredibly
" I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London. "
Jonathan Anderson
Arts
Always
East
" I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards. "
Jonathan Anderson
World
War
Craft
" For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality. "
Jonathan Anderson
Ground
Me
You
" 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. "
Jonathan Anderson
Mother
Father
Parents
" When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall. "
Jonathan Anderson
Clothing
Wall
Got
" I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating. "
Jonathan Anderson
Man
Find
Body
" I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately. "
Jonathan Anderson
Time
You
Think
" When I was younger, we went to Ibiza a lot because my parents bought an apartment there. I feel like that has always stuck with me. "
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Always
Parents
" Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work. "
Jonathan Anderson
Paris
London
Home
" 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