61 Quotes by Dries van Noten

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.

For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

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

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

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.

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.

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.

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.