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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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" 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. "

Dries van Noten

My Own

Want

Own

" 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. "

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

" You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show. "

Dries van Noten

You

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Fashion shows are really my way of communication. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. "

Dries van Noten

Shoe

Fashion

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. "

Dries van Noten

Prefer

Atmosphere

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

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

" 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

Colors

You

" 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. "