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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion shows are really my way of communication.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
- Dressing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against glamorous dressing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fragment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be as independent as possible.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.
- Prefer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My partner, Patrick, and I live in an old house in Belgium that was built in 1840 and is out in the countryside between Antwerp and Brussels.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always say that fashion is a reflection of our times.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020