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" No one reads anything. They just look at images. "
Jonathan Anderson
Anything
Reads
Images
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" I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London. "
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Arts
Always
East
" I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating. "
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Man
Find
Body
" For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality. "
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Ground
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You
" Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm. "
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Think
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Hope
" You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness. "
Jonathan Anderson
Find
Moments
Uncomfortable
" The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.' "
Jonathan Anderson
Morning
Like
Financial
" In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it. "
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Life
Love
Paris
" For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy. "
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Therapy
Interview
" When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer. "
Jonathan Anderson
Stone
Choice
Year
" Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature. "
Jonathan Anderson
Addiction
Work
Nature
" For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected. "
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Fashion
Always
" The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.' "
Jonathan Anderson
Watch
Day
Me
" 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. "
Jonathan Anderson
Someone
Up
Difficult
" I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company. "
Jonathan Anderson
Working
Spanish
Irish
" I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do. "
Jonathan Anderson
Think
People
Obsession
" I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up. "
Jonathan Anderson
Excited
Train
Love
" People get bored very quickly. "
Jonathan Anderson
Quickly
People
Bored
" When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist. "
Jonathan Anderson
World
Vision
Time
" During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture. "
Jonathan Anderson
Culture
Think
Luxury
" 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
" I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards. "
Jonathan Anderson
World
War
Craft
" Collaborations are incredibly important in design. "
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Design
Important
Incredibly
" Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic. "
Jonathan Anderson
Acting
Know
Learning
" If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks. "
Jonathan Anderson
Risks
Think
Well
" I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft. "
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Think
Respect
Consistency
" If you do generic things, you know, after a while, brands or designers become stagnated. "
Jonathan Anderson
Things
You
Become
" I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon. "
Jonathan Anderson
Up
Poor
Rich
" Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me. "
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You
Finding
Fashion
" 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. "
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Think
You
Media
" For me, fashion is exciting, and it should be exciting whether you get it wrong or right. "
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Fashion
Exciting