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" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "

Dries van Noten

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" I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself. "

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" Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate. "

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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. "

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" I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. "

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

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

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

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" I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do. "

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" I have nothing against glamorous dressing. "

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" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "

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" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "

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" For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. "

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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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" I try to be as independent as possible. "

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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. "

Dries van Noten

" The word 'fashion' I don't like because fashion is something that's over in six months. I'd like to find a word that's more timeless. "

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" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" When I get very stressed, I make jam. I like things that produce a quick result, because fashion has such a long lead time. With jam, you start, and two-three hours later, you have 36 little pots, all full. "

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