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• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

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  Mother, Cleaning

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• You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

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  Thinking, Connections, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Reality, Trying

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• The psychology for the person who's actually doing it is completely different. I think I probably needed to put that [hired-hand] psychology in my own head to be able to do the job. Otherwise it would just be too scary. People outside make it much bigger than me. I'm not saying in my head, "Oh, my god, what an amazing idea!" It scares me if I would do that.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

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• I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.

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  Thinking, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Dior, Want, Abstract

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• I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of the whole world of contemporary fashion. But it's interesting to think what outsider fashion could be. Does it mean to be completely disconnected from the regular system or just disconnected style-wise?

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  Wise, Fashion, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

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  Christian, Theatre, Dior

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• Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

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  Collaboration, Matter, Sometimes

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• Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.

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  Fashion, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Dior

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

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  Falling In Love, Clothes, People

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

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  Couple, Ideas, Assistants

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

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  Dad, Two, Bicycle

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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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  Years, Shy, Publicity

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• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

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  Fashion, Shows, Fashion Show

  "The geek who conquered the fashion world". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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• It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."

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  Heritage, Way, Periods

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• 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. I know everybody mentions Azzedine Alaïa, but he's been going for a long time in the system - showing to people, selling to clients - and I think it's admirable how he's transformed it into his own system in a way, but it's still a system.

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  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly, it's, like, the Bar jacket and the movement and the luxury and the Belle Époque and so much more.

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  Strong, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.

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  Running, Artist, Long

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• We are very excited to re-launch the collaboration with Fred Perry. We have great appreciation for the heritage of the brand as well as their dynamism in guiding the brand towards the future. Their openness to create synergies between both our brands will bring interesting, creative results.

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  Appreciation, Interesting, Creative

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• Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways.

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  Attitude, Giving, Different

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• I don't find it difficult anymore, because these days, Raf is only men and Dior is only women. I found it much more complicated when I was doing Jil Sander for men and women. It wasn't that it was the same, but I'm specific about where I want to go, and when you suddenly have to do two men's collections in the same moment, that was more difficult.

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  Men, Two, Raf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.

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  Thinking, Use, Dior

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.

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  Photography, People, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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