61 Quotes by Dries van Noten

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

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

I'm known for color and prints and embroideries.

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.

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 at a very young age.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

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

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.

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.