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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. "

Dries van Noten

Musicians

Career

Christian

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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. "

Dries van Noten

Parents

Studying

" My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable. "

" 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. "

" For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. "

" I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core. "

Dries van Noten

Research

Love

" 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. "

" I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional. "

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

" 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. "

" We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times. "

" I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. "

" For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea. "

Dries van Noten

Something

Work

" 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. "

" I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Dries van Noten

Value

Objects

" I try to be as independent as possible. "

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

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

" 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. "