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Raf Simons

Profession : Designer

Birth : January 12, 1968

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.

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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

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I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

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I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

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My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

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