Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

#1. My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

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#2. I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

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#3. As a young girl, I dreamed of having a voice in fashion.

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#4. Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

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#5. Black is not sad ... Black is poetic.

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#6. Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

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#7. Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.

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#8. Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

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#9. I just wait because I think people will find me. And I'm not the kind of person who will knock on somebody's door. I wait. If they're good for me, they will come towards me.

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#10. Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

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#11. Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

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#12. It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

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#13. Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

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#14. Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They're so ... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

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#15. I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

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#16. I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

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#17. Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

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#18. For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

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#19. I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.

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#20. When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

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#21. What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

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#22. Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

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#23. I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.

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#24. I've always done things my way.

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#25. Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

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#26. I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

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#27. I always followed my own path.

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#28. The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

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#29. I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

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#30. For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

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#31. I'd like to cut an attitude into clothes.

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#32. It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.

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#33. Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

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#34. I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

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#35. A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths

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#36. I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

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