118 Quotes by Raf Simons

I see my position in that whole Dior construction very differently from my own brand. My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won’t fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I’m not there. I’m coming in there and it’s like a – I don’t know the English word – like a passage.

The fashion world doesn’t know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

When it’s only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don’t think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied.

I don’t see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn’t quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

I always try to connect with what’s happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that – and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.

My whole life, I’ve always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn’t seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He’s just making his work, and when he’s ready, he’s going to show it.