Belgian - Designer | May 12, 1958 -
Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
Dries van Noten
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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.
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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.
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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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I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
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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.
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I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
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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.
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Change is not always bad. Change can be good.
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I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.
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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.
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I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.
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