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" I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants. "

Jonathan Anderson

Style

Live

Bike

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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. "

" No one reads anything. They just look at images. "

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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. "

" I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English. "

" 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. "

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Someone

Difficult

" 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. "

" You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness. "

" 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. "

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" Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work. "

" For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information. "

Jonathan Anderson

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Information

" 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. "

" My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him. "

" 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. "

" When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering. "

" When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall. "

" The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist. "

" I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. "

" I'm very open about my referencing; I'm very open about who I work with. "

" We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown. "

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" We put something on Instagram, and it gets reposted, and it's everywhere, and a minute later it's gone, over. I don't see that as a negative thing; it's the way my mind works, too. "