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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. "
Dries van Noten
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" To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. "
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" My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable. "
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" I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. "
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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'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "
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Color
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" When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age. "
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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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" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "
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Really
Fashion
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" I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own. "
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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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Early
Music
Television
" One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized. "
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I Am
Walk
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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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Research
Love
Me
" 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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Good
Thought
Look
" Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it. "
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Face
Time
Imagination
" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
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Change
Good
Always
" I try to be as independent as possible. "
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Possible
Try
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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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Old
Live
Partner
" 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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Musicians
Career
Christian
" All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. "
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Because
Involved
Personal
" For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men. "
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Me
Colors
You
" My morning routine varies by how much time I have. In the winter, I like to take baths, but in the summer, I prefer a good shower with some soap and then maybe some moisturizer afterward. I use D.R. Harris and Geo. F. Trumper products, which we also stock at our shops in Paris and Antwerp. "
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Morning
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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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Week
Detail
Sitting
" 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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Point
" I have nothing against glamorous dressing. "
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Against
Nothing
Glamorous
" 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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Brush
Elements
" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "
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Process
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" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "
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People
Wear
Clothes
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Shoe
Like
Fashion
" I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. "
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Myself
Women
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