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“Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.”
“Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?”
“When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.”
“When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.”
“Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.”
“I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.”
“I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.”
“Daring to wear something different takes effort.”
“Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.”
“For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.”
“I had no fun. My family was too serious.”
“I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.”
“I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.”
“Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.”
“You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.”
“I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.”