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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. - Dries van Noten
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For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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I prefer a scruffy atmosphere. - Dries van Noten
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I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes. - Dries van Noten
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In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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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
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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
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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. - Dries van Noten
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Change is not always bad. Change can be good. - Dries van Noten
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Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate. - Dries van Noten
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I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women. - Dries van Noten
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Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas. - Dries van Noten
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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. - Dries van Noten
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