Dries van Noten Quotes

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• Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.
• A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you…
• There are boys and girls, there is night and day, but above all there is love.
• For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
• I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
• 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…
• Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality.
• 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…
• 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…
• I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
• 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…
• I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
• Fashion shows are really my way of communication.
• Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
• I have nothing against glamorous dressing.
• 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…
• My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
• 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…
• 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…
• I try to be as independent as possible.

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