Ann Demeulemeester Quotes

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Ann Demeulemeester

Profession : Designer

Birth : December 29, 1959

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.

Ann Demeulemeester

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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.

Ann Demeulemeester

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.

Ann Demeulemeester

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

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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

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

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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.

Ann Demeulemeester

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Ann Demeulemeester

I've always done things my way.

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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.

Ann Demeulemeester

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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I always followed my own path.

Ann Demeulemeester

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

Ann Demeulemeester

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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