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Dries van Noten Quotes

Belgian - Designer | May 12, 1958 -

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

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Childhood Traditional Very

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.

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Love Me Research Discovery More See

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.

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Struggle Balance Team Push Find See

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.

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Personal Involved Because Collections

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.

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Together Detail Talking Week Sitting

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

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Women Myself Mind Design Something

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.

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Music End You Early Television New

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.

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Book Free Enough You More Image

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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Time Imagination Face Information

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.

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Women Morning Vision Romantic People

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.

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Fashion Rules Want My Own Follow

I try to be as independent as possible.

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Independent Possible Try

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