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" I'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "
Dries van Noten
Color
Known
Prints
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" 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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" 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'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'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
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" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "
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Work
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" 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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" 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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Gardening
Living
" For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions. "
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Always
Push
Negative
" My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional. "
Dries van Noten
Childhood
Very
Traditional
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Bread
Breakfast
Fruit
" 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
" Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate. "
Dries van Noten
Clothes
Fashion
Way
" 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
" 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 prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. "
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See
Lack
Good
" I have nothing against glamorous dressing. "
Dries van Noten
Against
Nothing
Glamorous
" Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. "
Dries van Noten
Coincidence
Different
Important
" 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
" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "
Dries van Noten
Process
Comprehensive
Design
" 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. "
Dries van Noten
Image
Own
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
" 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
" Change is not always bad. Change can be good. "
Dries van Noten
Change
Good
Always
" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "
Dries van Noten
Prefer
Atmosphere
" 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
" I try to be as independent as possible. "
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Possible
Try
Independent
" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "
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Shoe
Like
Fashion
" We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times. "
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Reflection
Our
Fashion
" I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "
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People
Wear
Clothes
" 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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Balance
See