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" I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. "
Dries van Noten
See
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Good
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" I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. "
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" Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate. "
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Fashion
Way
" 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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Work
Point
" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "
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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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Bread
Breakfast
Fruit
" 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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Own
You
" I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92. "
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Show
Money
" My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional. "
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Childhood
Very
Traditional
" I try to be as independent as possible. "
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Possible
Try
Independent
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Parents
Studying
Me
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Musicians
Career
Christian
" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
Dries van Noten
Change
Good
Always
" 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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Easy
Garden
Drive
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
My Own
Want
Own
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Start
Fashion
You
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Used
Brush
Elements
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Me
You
True
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Need
Trees
Going
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Find
Balance
See
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Career
Fashion
Forget
" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "
Dries van Noten
People
Wear
Clothes
" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "
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Prefer
Atmosphere
" 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
Winter
Time
" I have nothing against glamorous dressing. "
Dries van Noten
Against
Nothing
Glamorous
" 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
Design
" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "
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Really
Fashion
Way
" 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
" 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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Romantic
Women
Morning
" I'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "
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Color
Known
Prints
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
I Am
Walk
Paris