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" To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. "

Dries van Noten

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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 make clothes people can wear; I don't make art. "

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" I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. "

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

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" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "

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" 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

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

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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

" 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

" 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

" In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors. "

Dries van Noten

" I'm known for color and prints and embroideries. "

Dries van Noten

" 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. "

Dries van Noten

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

Dries van Noten

" Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it. "

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" In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. "

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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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