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I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

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

Dries van Noten

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

Dries van Noten

When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing.

Dries van Noten

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

Dries van Noten

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.

Dries van Noten

I try to be as independent as possible.

Dries van Noten

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.

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

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 prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

Dries van Noten

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.

Dries van Noten

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.

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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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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.

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I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

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

Dries van Noten

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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Change is not always bad. Change can be good.

Dries van Noten

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.

Dries van Noten

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.

Dries van Noten

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

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.

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

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